One thing about that program that Sidekick calendar people won't like, it's got a pretty darned good appointments / to do type thing going, but it does NOT have a "hours of the day like a day-runner" appearance, it's got the month view and events but not an hours of the day "column".īUT, the contacts part is the first thing I've seen that I could switch to: I did find ONE program this past week that I think I will move over to, for the contacts part of things. PimOne is not a serious program, all fluff, gosh so many of these programs are just popcorn and balony compared to Sidekick. Looked at EssentialPIM (very popular download on CNET, due to a free version to drive the fish in), it's a very unstable program, the big claim to fame is being able to run off of a USB drive, and those who need portability try to love the program in spite of many bugs and it not being very stable. I looked at(for the 9th time probably) the "also drifting now" Lotus Organizer, it just doesn't have the flexibility, can't do many tabs, just not as serious of a program. But the address book part, I'm spoiled by Sidekick's ability to let you custom define ALL fields, the ability to have the text be NOT limited to just 40 characters or whatever, and the nice tabs at the bottom. Many programs out there do a decent job of being a calendar, I'd settle for a separate program for that. I think us Sidekick fans fall into two camps, those who badly need and are used to the great calendar features, the simplicity and good features of the calendar aspects, and next is the camp that really is devoted to / requires, an "equal to Sidekick" contact manager / database / address book functionality (some require both, and obviously some are big on the nice notes section). I'll cut out some sections of my long post on that other thread, starting a new thread here re: this decent program I finally found: Now that we've heard from Philipe Kahn etc and it just doesn't look super likely to get our old friend Sidekick "modernized", like most of you I again have been looking for a decent alternative. I just posted a lengthy reply on the "support for an independed version of Sidekick" thread re: finally finally finally finding what at least for me is a workable alternative to Sidekick for the contacts / database aspect.
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