Efficient Diary Pro

Efficient Diary Pro has a unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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Efficient Reminder Free

5.0 stars

"A very great time management software"

July 16, 2013  |   By Yong926

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.53 Build 344

Pros

It is very nice and easy-to-use.

Cons

None at this time, and I don't have any problem as the last comment.

Summary

It is a very exellent reminder software. It can manage my all oppintments and remind me my best friends' birthdays. I never missed anything now.

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4.0 stars

"Program seems good, but lots of junk came with it."

June 19, 2013  |   By lunacydress

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.51 Build 340

Pros

The program seems pretty straight-forward, easy to use so far.

Cons

When I downloaded it, I got a bunch of junk that came with it- AVG search bar, some fundraising search add-on from the ASPCA. There was a screen about it when I downloaded the program, and I thought I declined to have it installed, but somehow, it just all showed up.

It took me awhile to disable and/or uninstall, but now I'm also having weird stuff happen like about 50(!) .exe files will just start updating at once and fill up my taskbar- I had to reset to get those to go away. And sometimes, when I'm not even using my internet browser, it will just open itself and a new tab will be open with a spammy-looking URL, but nothing loads.

I'm pretty irritated about it, given that CNET's usually pretty trustworthy. They should have at least made the option to not get all this crap more obvious, since I'm pretty internet-savvy and even I missed it.

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4.0 stars

"Excellent Reminder Software"

April 30, 2013  |   By sugartown42

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.50 Build 333

Pros

Dependible, reliable, and efficient.

Cons

None that I can think of.

Summary

Have used for several years. You can't go wrong using this in Windows 7 OS.

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4.0 stars

"Great Reminder Software"

March 21, 2013  |   By sugartown42

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.50 Build 332

Pros

Quick, easy to navigate, reliable.
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Cons

Got to watch on updates. it is possible to loose all previously logged data.

Summary

still am using. still consider it to be one of the best scheduling reminders that you can use.

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4.0 stars

"Easy to use and straight-forward."

March 3, 2013  |   By 0bijuan

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 327

Pros

It looks good.
Good calendar function.
Logical.
Does repeating dates.

Cons

none really

Summary

Nice looking and easy to use. Good with dates and repeating items. An excellent free program.

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5.0 stars

"This is IT!"

February 15, 2013  |   By puushkaap

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 327

Pros

I've been searching for a replacement to an appointment/calendar program which won't load on Windows 7. It needed to be simple in structure, quick and easy to load new tasks, handle recurring tasks, and deliver reminders.

Cons

For my purposes, there are no cons.

Summary

Simplicity was the prime requirement and cost was not a factor. This one is it. The performance and price could hardly be better. I'm impressed with the thoroughness of it's design.

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2.0 stars

"Inaccurate Review - Free Program Too Limited"

December 23, 2012  |   By KathrynDyer

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 326

Pros

Easy Download with no extra unwanted software when I downloded directly efficientreminder site
Can easily schedule events, including repeating events

Cons

Free version only allows for a USELESS quiet sound reminder
Pop up and most other features listed in the review article are only available in purchased version
Free version EXTREMELY limited and not really helpful as a reminder program

Summary

The FREE version is pretty useless. I wanted a free pop up reminder program like what MS calendar was able to provide. One that does not require my browser to be open to get reminders. One that does not require me to open anything to get reminders. A simple pop up that appears on my desktop. A daily to do list. Preferably free. This review mislead me, as no pop ups are available on the free version. Can anyone recommend a pop up reminder program that is compatible with Windows 8?

Updated on Dec 24, 2012

I am eating crow. For some reason, pop ups on my desktop started working the day after I posted this review. I am quite pleased with the program now that it is actually doing what I had hoped it would.

Would like to upgrade my rating if possible. Definitely a worthwhile program to try.

Updated on Dec 24, 2012

MY REVIEW WAS PREMATURE. Sorry abut that.

For some reason, pop ups on my desktop started working the day after I posted this review. I am quite pleased with the program now that it is actually doing what I had hoped it would.

Definitely a worthwhile program to try.

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1.0 stars

"The worst download you can imagine."

December 13, 2012  |   By tthaler

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 326

Pros

I haven't even gotten to try program. See "Cons".

Cons

Virus-like commercial program that enforces itself into your browser.

Summary

As soon as you want to install this software it automatically installs a Claro search bar and something like an add on which gets embedded in Mozilla (and probably in others too). You have to reset Mozilla if you want to not have Claro home page. Every time you reset just the home page it pops back as "Claro", which is by far the worst search engine you can imagine.

This is my experience with this software and I highly discourage you to download this free package.

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4.0 stars

"Very Good Reminder Tool"

August 21, 2012  |   By sugartown42

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 323

Pros

Dependable, good reference to recurring events like birthdays.

Cons

When you download updates the new version wipes out all of your personal input.

Summary

Very good, but you have to watch how up install updates

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4.0 stars

"Lives up to its' name"

August 12, 2012  |   By kaatskill

Version: Efficient Reminder Free 3.10 Build 322

Pros

Simple to use, practical features, well laid out, organized well, nice straight forward backup of data

Cons

none worth mentioning.

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Efficient Diary Portable

by: CNET staff on November 03, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, diaries aren't just for teenage girls. Keeping a diary--or journal, if you prefer--is a great way to keep track not only of your most private thoughts, but also of work activities, food logs, travel, and much more. Efficient Diary Portable is a feature-packed program that lets users create custom diary entries and take them along on a portable device--all with password protection, of course.

The program's interface is sleek and attractive, and we had no trouble getting around. A tree hierarchy on the left lets you access entries from the current day, current month, current year, last seven days, last 30 days, or a particular year. Entries can also be assigned to different groups, making it easy to organize around specific themes. We liked the actual diary entry interface a lot; it contains lots of word processing features such as text formatting and the option to insert images and attach documents. A drop-down menu lets you quickly make note of your mood or the current weather. A powerful search feature helps find entries based on their title or content.

The program comes with a built-in Help file but we couldn't get any of its contents to load; this wasn't a serious problem, as everything about the program is easy to figure out. Overall, we liked Efficient Diary Portable a lot, and we think it's a great choice for both personal and professional use.

Efficient Diary Portable comes as a ZIP file. It's accessible after extraction with no need for installation.

Efficient Diary Portable has a unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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Efficient To-Do List Server

Efficient To-Do List is a professional, elegant and handy task management software package. By specifying the priorities or order of to-do (tasks) or specifying different colors for different task labels, Efficient To-Do List makes every effort to assist you in following the "First Things First" principle. It reminds you before a task starts or is due, helps you resist the temptation to "drag on" and brings you the sense of on-time job accomplishment. With its unlimited-level grouping and unlimited-level sub-tasks, you can organize and manage the to-do list. Features include organizing your information by hierarchical grouping, organizing your information by category, hierarchical subtasks, adding attachments to tasks, customizing task labels, built-in editors similar to MS Word for writing comments, read-only mode support, and card view support.

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Efficient To-Do List Free

2.0 stars

"Limitations on the free version, misleading labelling"

September 2, 2012  |   By kimada17

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.10 Build 323

Pros

Easy to understand and set up

Cons

No way to categorize to-dos and they don't sort right without dates

Summary

This isn't going to work for me because I can't categorize things. But the biggest problem I have is with the misleading way the program is described here. I was looking for a free program, not a "free to try," so I filtered the search results for that; this one showed up so I decided to try it. But when I started using it I discovered that a lot of what I wanted to do - like establish categories - was available only in a "Pro" version, which is accessible from this one *but isn't free.*

Now I'm back looking for something else, but this time I forgot to filter for "free" and noticed the Pro version *listed separately* a couple of places down from the free one. I don't know who set this up, the developer or CNET, but these 2 versions should have been in one listing with the "price" field describing the difference, just like other listings. That would have made it easier for people to make an informed decision about whether to try this program. I probably wouldn't have. More wasted bandwidth...

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4.0 stars

"Great Way to Stay Organized"

December 18, 2011  |   By khuff55

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.0 Build 316

Pros

I pinned it to my task bar at the bottom of the Windows 7 screen - don't even need it to start up when the computer powers on. Easy to use, and very satisfying

Cons

Maybe no bells and whistles, but what is a to-do list for? Crossing off items! And this software does just that - complete with cross-out for the items you've finished

Summary

If you are at your computer even for a little while each day, this is easy to use and worth the download.

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2.0 stars

"Very simple, no bells & whistles"

December 17, 2011  |   By KeturahB

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.0 Build 316

Pros

Very simple

Cons

No bells & whistles

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4.0 stars

"Good program but much more than what I needed."

December 12, 2011  |   By vlehr49

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.0 Build 315

Pros

Well put together and looks well finished.

Cons

Just not right for me. I guess I just needed a notepad type program.

Summary

Nicely done and I will use it some.

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1.0 stars

"Way too cumbersome. A spreadsheet is easier."

December 10, 2011  |   By lwalle00

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.0 Build 315

Pros

I didn't see any.

Cons

Too much effort to get a single item entered.

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4.0 stars

"No-nonsense categorized list"

December 10, 2011  |   By lincster2

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 3.0 Build 315

Pros

Great if you do not have many complex items that need to be categorized. The Pro version is better for this

Cons

None other than having less items that the Pro version

Summary

Simple, efficient - worth the price.

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3.0 stars

"Pretty neat little organization tool"

June 29, 2010  |   By bobbyb007

Version: Efficient To-Do List Free 1.63 build 88

Pros

Intuitive with ability to classify importance

Cons

Would like the ability to spoecify a specific date versus picking a certain number of days or hours.

Summary

It looks like the Pro (Pay) version has more bells and whistles but as is the freebie is actually very much like MS Office Outlook tasks.

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Efficient To-Do List Free Portable

by: CNET staff on August 04, 2011

Sometimes the programs we end up liking the best are the ones that aren't particularly innovative or exciting, but that simply do one thing and do it in a commonsense, elegant way. Efficient To-Do List Free Portable is just such a program. This portable application makes it easy to keep track of your tasks and set reminders without adding a bunch of useless bells and whistles.

The program's interface is sleek and intuitive, reminding us of recent versions of Microsoft Office products. In the dialog for creating new tasks you enter a subject, comments, start and due dates, status, and level of completion. You can also specify each task's priority level and add custom labels to tasks. Tasks can be scheduled to recur on specific days of the week or at intervals ranging from daily to yearly. You can assign custom sounds to each alert. The list of tasks can be ordered by subject, start date, due date, status, level of completion, or priority, making it easy to re-sort your tasks and focus on whatever is most pressing. The program also has some advanced search features that let you find tasks quickly no matter how long your list is. We couldn't get the built-in Help file to load any content, but this wasn't a huge problem; everything about the program was easy to figure out. As its name implies, Efficient To-Do List Free Portable is small enough to fit on a USB drive, making it easy to keep your to-do list with you wherever you go. Overall, we think that this program is a great choice if you need a flexible, intuitive way to manage your tasks.

Efficient To-Do List Free Portable comes as a ZIP file and is accessible after extraction.

Efficient To-Do List Free Portable is a handy task management software package. By specifying the priorities or order of to-dos (tasks) or specifying different colors for different task labels, Efficient To-Do List Free assist you in "First Things First" principle. It reminds you before a task starts or is due, helps you resist the temptation to "drag on" and brings you the sense of on-time job accomplishment. Features include unlimited number of tasks management, recycle bin support, import and export, information safety safeguards: password protection and encrypted information storage, multiple interface styles, task reminder, setting priority for tasks, and backup and restore support.

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Efficient To-Do List

3.0 stars

"elegant, simple, well-organized, cluttered, incomplete"

July 22, 2009  |   By rona_formoso

Version: Efficient To-Do List 1.30

Pros

The interface is simple but professional. The icons, system features, and basic web functions seems to be complete.

Cons

Limited target users such as advanced/professional web visitors. The website is not that catchy compared to other sites. Fonts are small enough for other ages to read. It seems professional but dull. Unwanted ad may cause annoyance to users

Summary

User Interface
1. Change of font
2. Minimize the large, annying ads(ads must be place on the sides, above or on the bottom of the site)
Functianlities:
1. Link with other related site
2. The basic functions such home, reviews, forums, chats, communities and other added system feature seems to be a good deal to web users.

Updated on Jul 22, 2009

links also discourages users because of slow and unclear instructions

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2.0 stars

"Absolutely incompetent manual."

April 8, 2009  |   By ihabanec

Version: Efficient To-Do List 1.21

Pros

Frankly, I do not know of any

Cons

A standard program, with primitive help and even worse manual especialy for new users (my wife)

Summary

I bought the program and that was my mistake. The main thing was that I found the manual useless - no proper tutorial for inexperienced users.

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Efficient To-Do List Portable

Efficient To-Do List is a professional, elegant and handy task management software package. By specifying the priorities or order of to-do (tasks) or specifying different colors for different task labels, Efficient To-Do List makes every effort to assist you in following the "First Things First" principle. It reminds you before a task starts or is due, helps you resist the temptation to "drag on" and brings you the sense of on-time job accomplishment. With its unlimited-level grouping and unlimited-level sub-tasks, you can organize and manage the to-do list. Features include organizing your information by hierarchical grouping, organizing your information by category, hierarchical subtasks, adding attachments to tasks, customizing task labels, built-in editors similar to MS Word for writing comments, read-only mode support, and card view support.

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Efficient Sticky Notes

1.0 stars

"Can't uninstall the program; now it's frozen"

February 10, 2013  |   By EKovar

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 3.10 Build 327

Pros

It works: you can put a lot of notes on your desktop, even fade them out so that they barely show. I had work reminders, personal reminders, phone numbers I was going to need rather than have to look them up, notes about things I needed to do to help my aging mother, such as shopping lists . . . The usage went on and on. That is exactly what I wanted and needed, enough so that I went to their website to see what other products they have.

Cons

- Choosing the color and font is difficult. And when dealing with a note already written changing the color of a note changes the font. You need to go back to the note and redo them.
- It has frozen
- I can't uninstall it - at least I haven't found a way to yet.
- See above: before it froze I took a look at their website to see what other products they might have. Although not particularly sensitive there is no way that I'd support these people.

Summary

It works exactly as described (although changing the color of notes and fonts is more difficult than it should be) and as such I would have rated it at about four stars. That would drop to three or two because you can't install it - at least I haven't found a way yet. Meanwhile it has frozen which further dropped the rating.

But what really tanked the rating wasn't the software, it was the developer; their view of what men and women do is from the '50. The mildest is the description of another product "Impress your girl!" by actually remembering a date. Clearly men can't do this without help. Descriptions of products for women - the main change is that they're pink - includes reminders to pick up dry cleaning, play dates, and other 'housewife' chores. Which is fine. But I was really looking at their products because I'm working on a number of complicated professional projects

Updated on Feb 10, 2013

Correction: "Efficient Reminder is a handy calendar and reminder software program. With her help, you will be able to catch up with your meetings, amaze your girl when dating her, pay each month's bills in time and prepare for your mom's birthday in time."

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4.0 stars

"Very good program for reminder all. Stickies ondesktop"

April 8, 2012  |   By capitanflorius

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 3.0 Build 320

Pros

Easy to install, easy to use.
Many free for use.
Personalization and more.
Posted up in the right corner (but we cam move on desktop hereever and stayed there until I need. It deleted easily and new notes are easy to set up.

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Cons

No con for me at this moment.

Summary

Easy it is for all users an I strongly recommand this produt.

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4.0 stars

"Great for desktop reminders"

January 7, 2012  |   By dpaxson

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 3.0 Build 317

Pros

Posted up in the right corner and stayed until no longer needed. It deleted easily and new notes are easy to set up.

Cons

No cons at this time.

Summary

I needed an easy reminder setup as aging does take its toll on memory. This works really great for me.

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4.0 stars

"Have not used it much yet."

January 1, 2012  |   By Randy_Wischmann

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 3.0 Build 317

Pros

Easy to install. Seems easy to use.

Cons

Had a little trouble figuring out how to get it to show up on top of everything.

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4.0 stars

"Great Idea .....and The Price Is Right"

December 25, 2011  |   By zloxover

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 3.0 Build 317

Pros

Downloaded, Installed & Runs Beautifully. This being the first day of owning it, I'd have to say ...so far so good.

Cons

As Of Now.......None

Summary

Good Idea......Easy Install and Set Up with lots of ways to personalize your experience.

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1.0 stars

"Never worked!"

October 25, 2010  |   By reidthorup

Version: Efficient Sticky Notes 1.66 build 91

Pros

Nothing at all

Cons

Everything

Summary

It never worked on my computer. I don't have time to try to reinstall!

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Efficient Sticky Notes Portable

Notekeeping software offers two substantial advantages over paper notes: first, handwriting recognition expertise is not required; and second, you have a better place to keep your notes than your monitor's frame. Efficient Sticky Notes Portable offers all the features of the typical e-notekeeper, with some advantages. It's free, for instance, and it's totally portable, meaning it can go with you on a thumbdrive, smartphone, or other portable device and run on any Windows PC.

Efficient Sticky Notes Portable's layout takes the familiar Explorer-style route, with a left-hand navigation panel and a main view split horizontally between a list of all notes and a preview pane for viewing individual notes. You can customize the program's look and layout, choose skins, select several display modes, add toolbars, choose display details, set transparency, and configure many other settings. In fact, we were impressed with the variety of options this free program offers, not to mention frequent small touches suggesting origins in a larger app, such as the contrasting highlighting colors for menu selections. We added a new note to the desktop with a few mouse clicks and keystrokes. The program displayed our note in a tiny rectangle in the upper-right corner of our desktop, though we could drag it anywhere as well as change the default display options. Right-clicking our note let us open it to edit it, delete it, change its transparency and font, and more. We could add new notes just as easily from existing notes or via the program's system tray icon. Even the individual notes offered menu and toolbars, display and operational options, and much more directly from their frames. In fact, it seemed like there was little we couldn't access from individual notes' interface almost as easily as from the main view.

Efficient Sticky Notes Portable is a versatile, feature-packed productivity and organizational tool that's also extremely easy to use, which means it's more likely to be used. It offers an impressive level of refinement for a free app, too.

With Efficient Sticky Notes you can read important information at any time on your desktop. It saves your money and saves your time. The software allows various background colors, with optional gradient effect, to be set for the sticky notes. You can also customize the font of each note and set it to be semi-transparent so it will not fully cover up your desktop background or icons. To fully protect your privacy, the software encrypts the login password with the irreversible SHA algorithm and also encrypts data files. Besides, it offers various special features such as managing sticky notes by group, setting note importance, tracking the creation time and last modification time of notes, adding attachments to notes, Recycle Bin.

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Efficient Sticky Notes Pro

With Efficient Sticky Notes Pro you can read important information at any time on your desktop. It saves your money and saves your time. The software allows various background colors, with optional gradient effect, to be set for the sticky notes. You can also customize the font of each note and set it to be semi-transparent so it will not fully cover up your desktop background or icons. To fully protect your privacy, the software encrypts the login password with the irreversible SHA algorithm and also encrypts data files. Besides, it offers various special features such as managing sticky notes by group, setting note importance, tracking the creation time and last modification time of notes, adding attachments to notes, and Recycle Bin.

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Efficient Sticky Notes Pro Portable

With Efficient Sticky Notes Pro Portable you can read important information at any time on your desktop. It saves your money and saves your time. The software allows various background colors, with optional gradient effect, to be set for the sticky notes. You can also customize the font of each note and set it to be semi-transparent so it will not fully cover up your desktop background or icons. To fully protect your privacy, the software encrypts the login password with the irreversible SHA algorithm and also encrypts data files. Besides, it offers various special features such as managing sticky notes by group, setting note importance, tracking the creation time and last modification time of notes, adding attachments to notes, and Recycle Bin.

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Efficient Sticky Notes Server

With Efficient Sticky Notes Pro you can read important information at any time on your desktop. It saves your money and saves your time. The software allows various background colors, with optional gradient effect, to be set for the sticky notes. You can also customize the font of each note and set it to be semi-transparent so it will not fully cover up your desktop background or icons. To fully protect your privacy, the software encrypts the login password with the irreversible SHA algorithm and also encrypts data files. Besides, it offers various special features such as managing sticky notes by group, setting note importance, tracking the creation time and last modification time of notes, adding attachments to notes, and Recycle Bin.

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Efficient Diary Portable

by: CNET staff on November 03, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, diaries aren't just for teenage girls. Keeping a diary--or journal, if you prefer--is a great way to keep track not only of your most private thoughts, but also of work activities, food logs, travel, and much more. Efficient Diary Portable is a feature-packed program that lets users create custom diary entries and take them along on a portable device--all with password protection, of course.

The program's interface is sleek and attractive, and we had no trouble getting around. A tree hierarchy on the left lets you access entries from the current day, current month, current year, last seven days, last 30 days, or a particular year. Entries can also be assigned to different groups, making it easy to organize around specific themes. We liked the actual diary entry interface a lot; it contains lots of word processing features such as text formatting and the option to insert images and attach documents. A drop-down menu lets you quickly make note of your mood or the current weather. A powerful search feature helps find entries based on their title or content.

The program comes with a built-in Help file but we couldn't get any of its contents to load; this wasn't a serious problem, as everything about the program is easy to figure out. Overall, we liked Efficient Diary Portable a lot, and we think it's a great choice for both personal and professional use.

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With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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"Great program"

November 7, 2011  |   By saurabh9m

Version: Efficient Diary Portable 1.98 Build 102

Pros

easy to understand and easy to use

Cons

i m using on windows 7 and not found any issues

Summary

i recommanded it who wants create custom diary

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5.0 stars

"good program"

July 29, 2011  |   By stick joe

Version: Efficient Diary Portable 1.98 Build 102

Pros

It works perfectly. I use as a notes organizer - just set it to 'group view' instead of 'date view' and I'm good to go. I'm able to make folders for notes, subfolders too.

I'm using it on Windows 7.

Cons

none really.

Summary

Once every rare ocassion a small window comes up when you first open the program which says there's a pay for version.

I don't mind it since the program is really good and I'm keeping it since it's not worth throwing it away for such a rare occurence.

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Efficient Diary Pro Portable

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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Efficient Diary Server

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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Efficient Diary Pro

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries. The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful. The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected. Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries.

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5.0 stars

"Just what I was looking for"

November 21, 2012  |   By DrJansan

Version: Efficient Diary 3.10 Build 326

Pros

Easy to use with a minimum learning curve.

Cons

Non worthy of reporting

Summary

It does what it should and with ease

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5.0 stars

"great diary !"

August 12, 2012  |   By chaas1

Version: Efficient Diary 3.10 Build 322

Pros

would recomend to all amazingly easy

Cons

really great site

Summary

try this simple format plan you will be glad you did if interested in a diary

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4.0 stars

"Simple and efficient"

August 5, 2012  |   By adirks

Version: Efficient Diary 3.10 Build 322

Pros

If all you want is a log, this is good. Quick, low load, efficient.

Cons

Please let me change that blue.

Summary

Updated on Aug 5, 2012

Found the control for the interface. Better colors are available.

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1.0 stars

"Doesn't Work"

June 12, 2012  |   By DXMC

Version: Efficient Diary 3.0 Build 321

Pros

Nothing at all.

Cons

The program doesn't save diary entries. As soon as you close the program everything youv'e written in it is gone. When you re-open the program and try to access entries youv'e made you just get a message saying the file has been locked by the program. The file exists, but the program won't give you permission to access any entries youv'e made.

Summary

Completely useless.

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5.0 stars

"Love it !!!"

May 18, 2012  |   By iswaryam

Version: Efficient Diary 3.0 Build 320

Pros

It is a simple yet effective UI, easy to find one's way around.

Cons

None found yet

Summary

I was looking for a proper diary software, not too comfy with the cloud versions. Efficient Diary seems to fit the bill for me thus far. I can create entries for previous dates, make changes to the present one, find a diary entry using search, and the best part --- it is password protected too :)

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2.0 stars

"Says your data is encrypted. It's not"

March 7, 2012  |   By kd888

Version: Efficient Diary 3.0 Build 319

Pros

Nice, easy-to-use interface

Cons

Data is stored in plain text. Their website and help file both say that your data is encrypted. I e-mailed the company asking about this, but I have not heard back from them yet.

Summary

It's great, if you don't need your data to be private. Yes, you have to have a password to open the diary from within the program, but anyone can just open the data file in a text editor and see everything you've written.

Updated on Mar 7, 2012

It looks like you can have it encrypt the files, but it's not the default and it's not obvious how to turn it on. Check the box under Tools->Options->Action Confirmation called "Prompt me to confirm encryption when closing a file". If you have this checked, then when you close the program, it will ask you if you want to encrypt your diary file.

One other issue I noticed: The program never seems to completely quit. After I close it, if I look in the Task Manager, there is still a process called EfficientDiary.exe, using about 12 MB of memory. I noticed this because I was trying to delete the program's entire folder and it told me the files were still in use. I don't know what it's doing, but it makes me very suspicious that this could be some kind of malware.

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5.0 stars

"I Love This Diary"

December 19, 2011  |   By amanihalim

Version: Efficient Diary 3.0 Build 316

Pros

Very easy and simple. Like Word.

Cons

I Haven't any dislikes.

Summary

You Must LOVE this diary so much!!!

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2.0 stars

"The Graphics in this program are raggedy!! Ugh!"

December 11, 2011  |   By jdbparsons

Version: Efficient Diary 3.0 Build 315

Pros

Supposedly stores password protected information.

Cons

This is a wanna-be program, with unoriginal raggedy, ugly graphics, (supposedly XP and Vista style - I don't buy it -too ugly and too rough to be XP or Vista Style)and emoticons that are very horribly poor quality. As soon as I installed it I went right back around and took this *hit off my machine.

Summary

Piece of crap don't waste your time with this garbage!

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3.0 stars

"Great for privately letting out a profane rage."

June 19, 2011  |   By Scorpini_01

Version: Efficient Diary 1.98 Build 102

Pros

Good interface, good data organization, easy to use, fun to enter your daily thoughts + other things.

Cons

Lacks a spell check in the free version, Pro version is worth about a buck instead of 25.

Summary

Nice, can be fun.

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4.0 stars

"Nice interface, versatile program"

June 1, 2011  |   By tereziazure

Version: Efficient Diary 1.98 Build 102

Pros

Customizable, attractive interface, well organized, easy to use

Cons

Cleverly in the so called free edition there is no Spell Check included....clicking the Spell Check button will pop up a message for you to buy the Pro version for $25....not very nice, since it means there is no really usable free version.

Summary

Get it if you don't mind having no Spell Check.

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Efficient Password Manager Pro 3.10 Build 322 Multilingual

Efficient Password Manager Pro 3.10 Build 322 Multilingual | 7 Mb
Actually the passwords generated by this tool are usually safer. Your private information is fully protected - the main login password is encrypted by the irreversible SHA algorithm, while the password information itself is encrypted by 256-bit AES algorithm, the encryption strength of which is among the highest in the world. Our password keeper also offers many special features such as password management in hierarchical grouping, adding attachments to password entry, setting record importance, displaying record list in card view. The interface of the password software looks fashionable and cute. It has up to 8 interface styles of different tones of color for you to choose from! With Efficient Password Manager, you only need to remember one password!

Password Generator Included
The customizable password generator can let you specify the desired length and character types of the password.

Multiple Interface Styles
8 interface styles are provided to meet your individual needs! They have various tones of color like blue, green or metallic, and have Vista standard and XP standard windows appearances separately.

Easy to Search
Efficient Password Manager has powerful search capabilities so you can quickly find your information.

Powerful Document Editor
Efficient Password Manager has embedded a powerful document editor similar to MS-Word, which can be used to write your comments for passwords.

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