People
Features
The most
compelling feature of People might be its
roominess. It's the best at keeping lots of
detailed information. Add simplicity for quick
implementation, lots of useful features, and you
have the right tool for the job.
Advanced
Features
Address
Book
- Organize up
to 100,000 contacts with their names,
addresses, telephone numbers, pager numbers
and fax numbers displayed in easy-to-view
block format.
- E-mail, fax
or write to a single contact, or a whole
group, with one click.
- Upload to
Palm and Visor hand-held
devices.
- Set alarm
reminders for important events.
- Easy setup
will automatically import your existing
contact lists as delimited text files from
other applications or let you enter them
manually. Category mapping and savable maps
make future importing easy.
- Enter up to
30,000 characters of additional contact
information in the "Other Contacts" pocket,
just under the primary contact
block.
- Four
customizable pockets in each contact card
allow easy entry of up to 30,000 characters
of information in each (e.g., Personal,
Business, etc.).
- Create
profiles for cross-referenced, card-to-card
categories. The 15-field profile area for
each contact card can hold up to 30,000
characters of text information and has
customizable category headings. Powerful
auto-inputting and information-moving
features make it easy to group update all or
some contact cards and also feature
customizable pop-up buttons for frequently
entered information.
- Date-stamp
button for "Notes" areas has customizable
message tags for frequently used
messages.
- Notes text
can be fully formatted for highlighting in
the Notes area (e.g., bold, underline,
fonts).
- Hands-free
phone dialing, including cell phone and pager
numbers, via modem or acoustic (speaker)
dialing. People supports Desktop
Dialer.
- Create group
lists using any bit of information in a
contact card, great for mail merge and other
group-processing activities. List view has
the entire contact card in the
background.
- Comprehensive
searching of all text fields in cards allows
you to easily find information using partial
words or whole words.
- Card
navigation includes Web browser-style "Back"
and "Forward" buttons.
- All of the
frequently used features have Command-key
shortcuts for quick access.
- New-card
entry function includes cross-checking for
previously entered contacts with the same
phone number, fax, address, name, or contact
name information. Sound feature speaks each
category (e.g. "Name," "Address" or "Zip")
during information entry so your eyes can
remain on the paper.
- Linking
feature allows connecting related cards to
each other.
Word
Processor
- Create
letters to print, e-mail or fax from within
People. Create single-contact
correspondences or create form letters for
mail merge, e-mail merge and fax merge (send
a customized letter, e-mail or fax to a whole
group with one click).
- Save
documents that automatically link to the
contact cards.
- Print Avery
single or multiple labels, envelopes,
organizer pages for organizers such as Day
Runner® and Day-Timer®, file tabs,
contact reports and many other
items.
- Receive
e-mails directly into contact cards and save
them with the other documents.
Alarms and
Reminders
- Alarms can
be set normal or urgent and configured to
auto-repeat. Pop-up chronological view will
display all set alarms in order and has
universal delay and release features for
holding all non-urgent alarms.
- Contextual
alarms can be set to go off when opening a
contact's card to remind you of things that
should be brought up during the call (e.g.,
asking about a contact's vacation to
Hawaii).
- Flashing
indicators are animated reminders of calendar
events, sales calls for each day and inbound
e-mail.
- Quit feature
reminds user of waiting alarm messages and to
check the next day's calendar.
Calendar
- Calendar is
completely integrated with address book as
one application.
- Calendar
entries can have time and duration
designations and reminder alarms.
- Drag and
drop calendar entries from one day to another
make rescheduling a snap.
- Search all
entries in the calendar using partial or
complete words and phrases.
- View
calendars by day, week or month.
- Print
calendars by day, week or month using
calendar or report style formats.
- Print
personal planner pages, front and back, for
organizers such as Day Runner® and
Day-Timer®.
- Daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly entry areas allow
one-time entry for repeating events, such as
birthdays, anniversaries and regularly
scheduled meetings. Reminder feature alerts
the user days or weeks before an event and
can be reviewed in list form.
- Build a list
of occurrences of a word or phrase appearing
in the calendar, along with the corresponding
dates (e.g., build a list where calendar
entries contain the words "lunch" and "Mike"
from 1/1/99 to 6/1/99).
- Upload to
Palm and Visor hand-held
devices.
Sales
Support
- Sales-oriented
daily follow-up lists and reminders can be
built automatically and allow you to set the
priority as "Must-call" or "Should-call"
lists.
- Track client
activities with call dates linked to the
calendar.
- Print
contact reports for tracking sales
activities.
- Track new
prospects in the Leads List until proven as
viable clients.
- Automate
communications with mail, fax and e-mail
merge.
- Notes area
receives automatic entries from automated
activities, or enter manually.
- Upload to
Palm and Visor hand-held devices
for portability.
Advanced
Features
The
convergence of Web information and desktop
applications is the future of computing.
People is your single-window solution
for the integration of e-mail, fax, phone,
desktop applications, and Web information.
Access to all of your contact information and
related documents is focused not on large,
generic folders of e-mails, bookmarks, and
files; but instead is focused on each contact
card for intuitive, contact-related
access.
- Palm
and Visor Upload. Upload contacts,
calendar and alarms into these popular
hand-held devices.
- Send e-mail
from a contact's card and receive e-mail into
a contact's card with messages being noted,
saved and linked to the contact's
card.
- Group
e-mailing to some or all contacts, with
attachments. (Broadcast e-mailing). This
means simple, fast e-mail merge (send unique,
customized e-mail to a whole group with one
click).
- Automatically
enter a contact's e-mail address into their
card from an incoming e-mail message they
send! Creating E-mail works with any e-mail
application. E-mail-merge features require
Eudora software (A free stand-alone
e-mail package for general use with any
Macintosh. Download it now at the Qualcomm
Web site - http://www.eudora.com.
Eudora runs in the background, out of sight,
and can be used alongside any other existing
e-mail application.)
- Group faxing
to some or all contacts, with attachments.
(Broadcast faxing). This means simple, fast
fax merge (send unique, customized faxes to a
group of contacts with one click). Fax
correspondences and attachments (e.g., price
sheet or product info sheet) from a contact's
card. Requires Smith Micro's free
FAXstf 6 or higher software (An excellent
stand-alone fax package for general use with
any Macintosh. Download it now at the Smith
Micro Web site - http://www.smithmicro.com)
- Automatic
Internet street mapping and directions to any
contact's address in the United
States.
- Access any
contact's Web site with a single click from
their card.
- Link other
application files, such as word processor
documents or graphics files, to a contact's
card for easy future access. Use saved files
as stationary templates to create new
documents.
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