[Orion27]

If anyone is looking for a contact Manager with great personal support, I recommend DayLight, a contact manager from MarketCircle. Great folks, great product with great documentation via pdf manual.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by Orion27:
If anyone is looking for a contact Manager with great personal support, I recommend DayLight, a contact manager from MarketCircle. Great folks, great product with great documentation via pdf manual.

I tried it. I wanted to like it, I really did. But the GUI is very confusing, and the thing that REALLY sucks is that the synching with Address Book is hopeless. I did a sync about 6 months ago, then didn't use Daylite. I wanted it to re-import the stuff, but there's no option to blow away the Daylite data. I tried (deleted the OpenBase database, etc.) and did a re-sync, and it munged all my Address Book contacts. I had to restore from backup.

It would be great if it could integrate well with the Address Book database, in some way (this probably would be difficult as they want to keep everything in OpenBase, though).

I switched to OD4Contact, which uses the Address Book database (natively). It doesn't have all the sales force automation functionality of DayLite (for sure), but I really just wanted a contact manager/to do list app, rather than a full pipeline/opportunity management tool.

Daylite shows promise, it just needs a lot of cleaning up and simplifying. The GUI is horribly confusing, and I always ended up with the wrong windows showing. On their web site they show an example of having 9 windows open, to account for the fact that a single window can't really do 2 panes "well."

[kcmac]

CatOne,

I can understand what you mean. The early versions were quite confusing but I think the new version is really good. It does take a little getting used to but I think some of that is that Daylite is much more than a supercharged address book like OD4Contact. (Looks very nice BTW.)

I do everything based from projects. I keep notes about them, assign tasks, link people, phone calls, project sales leads, track what phase the projects are in, etc. Daylite does this very nicely. I can also print this info out very easily or send in an email to my coworkers.

If you just need to link some people to some tasks, I would agree with your recommendation. If you need to track projects, Daylite is something to consider.

[cpac]

I was a Daylite early adopter, and while I'm still following it's progress, the lack of basic calendar functionality still keeps me away (yes there's some calendar possibilities, but you can't delete or change instances of a recurring event, and you have very limited ways in which you can have an event repeat.

Marketcircle has said this will be revamped in 2.0, and I believe they've been soliciting feedback as to how best to streamline the interface for 2.0 as well.

still, it will probably be overkill for those not in a multi-user, sales, environment, but at least there's a native ACT! competitor...