Lotus Organizer 6.1 [Old Version]

by Lotus Development

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BNXZ0I
• Item model number: AN01TIE
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 3, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,325 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #17 in Software > Business & Office > Business Plans

Product Description

IBM Lotus Organizer 6.1 is an electronic day planner with tabs for each section and pages that turn. You can quickly see all your calendar, contacts, to do's, calls, notes, Web information and more at a glance. No more looking for sticky-note reminders or lost scraps of paper. It's all there, right before your eyes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overall; still some bugs to work out, November 4, 2006

By 

Jonathan Austin "jsa336" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

Like some of the other reviewers, I have been using this product for a while (five years). And like the others, I would not trade it for anything. I have used other Organizers/Contact Managers, and they don't have the same functionality or ease of use. Things I like: creating phone lists for the day is AUTOMATIC-- type first name and last name and phone number show up-- or type last name. DON'T LIKE that you have to organize your contact's mobile phone separately to call up a different phone number to call. LIKE-- using Intellisync as a conduit, I can sync to my Palm Treo 650. Don't like-- it takes longer (this is largely Palm's problem for not supporting this product in the first place, and not providing sufficient memory. LIKE-- the Day Planner screen is great, versatile, and easy to use. DON'T LIKE-- the printing of Tasks in different formats is very difficult to use. LIKE-- easy to schedule repeating tasks. No downside to this. The address book is easy and clear to read and copy. The Weekly Planner is great and clear. I like the ability to use "penciled in" appointments. I have never gotten any of the billing items to work and I use separate billing software (Billquick) for this.

It goes on... you will get a lot out of this product, but Lotus/IBM has rarely modified and improved the program, and really should do this. But it is probably not a profit center. Just a pretty darn well designed organizer.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars works fine with Vista 64 bit and Windows 7; still the best, November 3, 2009

By 

Michael V (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lotus Organizer 6.1 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have had no problems using Lotus Organizer 6.1, running it on a Vista 64 bit machine for several months, and now under Windows 7 (64 bit) for a week. Vista/Win7 did not require any fancy workarounds; just install Organizer, and it works.

Despite a few annoying but minor usability glitches, IMHO this is the best product of it's type. It's a shame that Lotus/IBM don't see fit to update it, but if they did . . . maybe they would break something.

Complaints:
- can't disable the "You tried to create an appointment before today!" nag when you enter a back-dated appointment.
- if you're editing an entry, and switch to another window momentarily, your focus and insertion point are lost when you return; you must click again where you want to resume your edits. I think this behavior first surfaced with Vista.
- typically, desktop search tools (such as those built into Vista and Windows 7; Google Desktop; & Copernic), don't know how to index Organizer. Assuming you even want this capability, the workaround is to periodically export your data from Organizer, to a format that these indexers can handle.
- text search within Organizer is pretty basic; e.g. you can't enter multiple terms without it searching for them as a phrase; there's no Boolean functionality.

Likes:
- It isn't made by Microsoft or Google; and your data won't be stored on the Web for others to potentially hack into.
- It has a light footprint, is stable, and it does the job without putting on manners, and without fancy but unwanted and confusing, half-baked features.
- Its views are more usable than anything I've seen in the relatively ponderous and almost unmanageable Microsoft Outlook.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best diary on the market, January 2, 2006

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G. Wagoner (Piqua, OH) - See all my reviews
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I love Organizer. I have been using it since 1993. There is nothing that is as user friendly on the market. I wish IBM would keep working with it.