Here’s an opportunity to get a Agenda At Once PIM software license for free. We don’t ask much – probably anyone can accomplish at least three of these requirements with minimal effort; some are so trivial that we’ll need to withdraw them at some point…

1. Write and publish a mini review on your (or someone else’s) blog, website or productivity forum.

2. Comment and submit a (honest!) rating at some of popular download websites (download.com, softpedia.com, fileforum.betanews.com, snapfiles.com, …).

3. Send us at least 10 suggestions or bugs. Everything counts, regardless of importance or severity. And this includes website and help (user manual) errors, obscure parts or wording improvements.

4. Finish one of presented TrialPay offers (subscribe to a service, join a network, buy different product, etc). Feel free to browse a list and find something that you like.

And of course, if your trial is over before you had chance to review it properly, just ask and we will send you trial extension key.

“Opinions are like noses, everyone has one”

When I mention that my company is selling PIM software, I almost can hear “On no! Another one?!”. Other PIM developers surely share similar experience, so let me try to explain what the heck I was (we were?) thinking.

Back in 2002, when our first products just started to pick up and I was getting serious about all this stuff, I needed PIM / to-do list application that I can actually use. After trying out dozen of existing products, I finally came to the conclusion that none of them suits my needs. Some were too complicated for what I need, some were too simple for what I need and some were just too ugly for my taste. Of course, I was aware that these products were perfect for some other people, but still, I needed an application that does things differently.

Full of enthusiasm, without hesitation, business plans and similar mumbo-jumbos, I sat down and started a new project: Agenda At Once. Back then I didn’t know what we will do with it: give it away, sell it or just use it internally. I was simply satisfied with a feeling of creating something new and innovative.

After seeing what doesn’t work for me, I had a decent picture of what will. I took these as starting points:

1. My job doesn’t include much fixed appointments – I should probably pay most attention to to-do list management.

2. Of course, time after time I do need to schedule or attend a meeting, so application should have this possibility too.

3. It should be possible to divide tasks into subtasks. Strangely enough, in 2002 not much (if any) PIMs supported this.

4. It should be possibile to enter free-form notes somehow, for any data that doesn’t stricly fall into a “task” category.

5. It should be really easy to use – drag & drop, plenty of keyboard shortcuts, descriptive and simple interface.

It turns out that what worked for me worked for lot of other people too. Soon enough users started suggesting new features and most of them were implemented in all these years. Although number of features and options is multiplied compared to first release, I think we succeeded to maintain almost same level of simplicity and keep original philosophy.

So, what’s the answer? My guess is: yes, as long as at least one developer is motivated enough to create it – there’s a good chance that many non-developers have similar noses opinions.

Here’s an opportunity to get our Agenda At Once PIM for half of a price. On November 11, 2008 you will be able to get full license of this award winning PIM for only $19.95 (US) via Bits du Jour daily software deals website.

Agenda At Once combines the best aspects of other personal organizer applications. It’s a complete PIM system, integrating to-do management, scheduling and planning, contact and note functions.

In addition, it is easy to use and responsive, while being feature-packed but not power-hungry.

With its optimally-designed interface, Agenda At Once will rapidly put you in charge of your – or your team’s – personal information. You’ll be saving time and accomplishing so much more that you’ll be wondering how you even managed without it.

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Currently we offer three software products:

• Agenda At Once – advanced to-do list and PIM software
• CD Label Designer – powerful cd label maker
• Web Log Storming – interactive web log analyzer / web statistics software

To learn more about each of them use menu at the left of this page.

Few days ago we have uploaded online demo of Agenda At Once in action. You can see how easy is to add tasks, drag and drop them to schedule and few other advanced features.

Agenda At Once online demo – how to create to-do tasks and more

Is it too long? Too detailed? Too sparse? Feel free to send us your comments.

If you are in hurry, read at least last paragraph of this post.

Because of serious amount of spam messages circling around on the global net, e-mail servers and spam filters become more and more rigorous during the time. This could really be a problem as legitimate e-mails often don’t get through. There are also other reasons for similar problems (for example, typo in the e-mail address), but this one is most probable.

It’s a really unpleasant situation for us: time after time we receive angry e-mails from our customers because they feel that we are ignoring their support requests, which is quite understandable and justified. In some cases we are forced to reply with several different options (SMTP servers) hoping that at least one of them will succeed, but if any of users don’t confirm the reception, there’s a living suspicion in the back of our minds.

So, here’s a firm statement: We don’t leave any of support requests unanswered intentionally. Yes, sometimes, if problem cannot be easily resolved, it could take some time, but even then we will send a notification that you have been heard and that we will get back to you eventually.

Is there really a solution?

Although not perfect, best bet would be to use our Support Ticket System instead of simple e-mail. In this case, you can be sure that we will get the message, and, what’s more important, there would be an always accessible web copy of the conversation.

IMPORTANT: When you submit a ticket, you should receive an e-mail informing you about it, among with direct web link to this copy. If you don’t receive this e-mail in few minutes, that’s a good signal that something is wrong, probably in server-server relation. In this case, please save direct link presented in the web browser after submitting ticket, so you can use it later to check if your request has been answered.

As you might now, Agenda At Once was almost completely rewritten for v3.0 and it took much more time than we expected in the first place, as beta testers would confirm. That’s why we are more than happy to see that our multi-year efforts of development went in right direction.

As popularity of Agenda At Once grows, we hear more and more praise from the users, and it really means a lot. We are also glad to receive some feedback about what they are missing in AAO as it points us to the right direction for future development.

One of probably most enjoyable affirmation of the hard work is when one of independent websites publishes a review, especially if it’s a positive one. That’s what happened with Agenda At Once some time ago.

PC World’s reviewer Ian Harac wrote a quite pleasant description for AAO. He immediately recognizes main advantage of AAO over the competition:

“A well-designed program should be intuitive to the average user–but not at the cost of depth or functionality. AgendaAtOnce passes this test admirably. Despite not being a regular user of scheduling software (AgendaAtOnce might change that), I was easily able to set up a task and some subtasks, add contacts, schedule appointments, and perform all of the tasks one expects from a personal information manager.”

Read full review

We usually don’t announce each super-minor update (third version number) on the blog, but we have decided to make an exception now. The reason for this is that changes between original v3.0.0 and current v3.0.5 are really numerous, and don’t include just bug fixes: they contain large number of improvements and even few new features. We could (or should?) call it v3.1 without hesitation…

Anyway, the update is here, it’s is free for current customers and you can download this to-do list software from the usual place.

Agenda At Once product info

Direct download link

We have prepared press release and special web page for pro or non-pro journalists who would like to mention Agenda At Once in paper magazines or blogs. Among with PR text, this page contains high resolution artwork and summarized facts about our software. Hopefully, it will help all interested publishers to quickly find necessary data.

Press resources page: http://www.agendaatonce.com/press.html

We are proud to announce new major update of our popular PIM product Agenda At Once. This release includes large number of long waited new features and improvements that, we believe, cause this software to ascend to the new level. As always, while adding new features, we were trying to keep it simple and retain most of the previous functionality.

To see more information about Agenda At Once PIM, visit product web site.