FranklinCovey PlanPlus For Microsoft Outlook 2.0

Per tech support (useless) I have installed and uninstalled Plan Plus, Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, Office XP and Office 2003 over and over for ten days. After each uninstall I had to scrub the system registry. Each time Plan Plus would develop new bugs and crashes every ten minutes or so.

The Pocket PC interface is minimal and tech support is by on-line chat that won't accept sentences of any length so you can't really communicate very well. Forget about cutting and pasting the long error messages generated. The techs handle every question with the same set of useless answers, I'd swear it is some automated software program.

The old version took a number of installations in order to get it working, unfortunately 2.0 is even worse.

To Covey Execs, find a new software developer.


Finally PlanPlus gets is right...   March 2, 2004
 6 out of 10 found this review helpful

I was one of the unfortunate ones to purchase FC PlanPlus v 1.x. Being an IT (Information Technology) person by trade, I was dumbfounded how a time and task management company could have put out such as lousy product with v 1.x. FC did not have the staff or plan to support it and I ended up sending it back for a refund.... Fortunately V 2.0 has addressed every one of the problems I reported and it looks like they have finally gotten it right... At least for the versions of the OS and Outlook I am using... I am running XP pro with Outlook 2003 hooked to Exchange server. The install went without a hitch for both the PC and my Pocket PC. The FC Plan Plus home page is a must. I finally have all the screens I use on one page. No more having to open a note to document my phone calls, then having to jump to calendar to enter a meeting request, or go to Mail to look at my e-mail etc. I can stay at the home page and do it all!!!. I can also print my pages with just about any layout I can think of (saving me from having to buy daily pages every year). On the printout I have all my notes, tasks, appointments, etc. I encourage all of you seriously thinking about buying this product to download the 30 day eval and give it a try. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. NOTE: The eval is 90 meg (has to load .net framework) so be patient. I would have given it a 5 star if ALL the added features of PlanPlus would have transfered to the Pocket PC... As it is now the Mission Statments, Goals, and Compass do not transfer: only the Daily Record and Prioritized tasks go over (along with the standard mail, calandar, etc from Outlook...) All in all I think this is a great product and hightly recommend it for the serious planner...


After a year + I am re-reviewing this... HINT - I don't use it any more   February 26, 2004
 9 out of 13 found this review helpful

First off...there is a 30 day trial to download from the web if you want to try it out first (BUT BUY IT FROM AMAZON...they have the best price and you will want it). Some of the other reviews I read said they had problems with the program.

Unless you have a tablet PC you have problems with this program...and even then some of it was kind of funky to work with. But worth it if you can handle the small quirks.