Hot Plan for Mac 1.7.2

Hot Plan for Mac: The Ultimate Personal Planning Tool

Hot Plan is a multi-purpose personal planning tool designed to help users collect and manage their thoughts, ideas, projects, bookmarks, links and text clips. With its rich collection of attributes such as title, completion status and percentage, creation date, completion date, target date, days left until target date, tags, priority labels and notes among others; Hot Plan offers an all-in-one solution for managing your daily tasks.

Whether you are a busy professional looking to stay on top of your work schedule or a student trying to keep track of assignments and deadlines; Hot Plan has got you covered. This powerful software allows you to easily create plans with actionable items that can be filtered using search strings or displayed based on completion status.

With Hot Plan's intuitive interface and customizable hotkeys; creating new actions is as easy as writing plain English text. You can also grab bookmarks copied into the clipboard by any application or associate file/email/web links with each action for easy access when needed.

Notifications can be triggered when an action reaches its target date ensuring that important tasks are not forgotten. Plans can be exported/imported for easy backup or transfer to other computers while action notes can be exported/imported using the standard rtfd file format.

Hotkeys can also be configured to open the Hot Plan window or grab bookmarks/text clips making it even easier to use this powerful software. Dragging files/URLs onto actions sets them as links while drag/drop operations support copy/move/delete operations.

Buttons on the main window enable/disable grabbing while statistics inspector provides detailed information about each plan's status including completion level. Labels for plans just like actions make it even easier to organize your work schedule while priorities have associated icons whose names are configurable.

Support for printing plans/actions in addition to exporting them in csv/tsv formats ensures that you always have access to your data regardless of where you are working from. All date fields offer a popup calendar for easy date selection while tag editing with autocompletion makes it even easier to organize your work.

Advanced section in preferences allows for backing up, restoring and optimizing the database while menubar icon with menu displays expiring actions. Plans/actions can also be sent via email directly from Hot Plan while synchronization with iCal ensures that you always have access to your data regardless of where you are working from.

Hot Plan's keyboard/trackpad based navigation among plans/actions ensures that you can easily move between tasks without having to use the mouse. Realtime preview in quick entry window makes it even easier to create new actions ensuring that you never miss an important task again.

In conclusion, Hot Plan is the ultimate personal planning tool designed to help users stay on top of their daily tasks. With its rich collection of attributes and customizable hotkeys; managing your work schedule has never been easier. Whether you are a busy professional or student; Hot Plan has got you covered ensuring that important tasks are never forgotten again.

Those trying to track home and work schedules on their computers have a number of options. Hot Plan for Mac fully functions as a calendar and to-do list program, but its price may make it undesirable in light of free options available.

Hot Plan for Mac can be used for free for 21 days, and the full version can be unlocked for $12.99. The program downloaded and installed quickly. The native installer performed well and prompted us for actions at the appropriate times. The initial setup required clicking through pop-ups regarding registration and the full version payment, but this is expected from a freeware program. Available support was better than expected, with upgrades to the application available. The simple interface lags behind that of other freely available time management apps in that it lacked any color or graphics. Colors may be added to the calendar and to-do list based on priorities, but not to the interface itself.

You have the ability to create different lists, such as those for shopping or housework, as well as take and save basic notes. In addition to a basic to-do list, longer projects may be tracked through a separate feature, which includes progress and deadline management. The program's ease of use is welcome, and it functions well without delays or glitches. Unfortunately, many of these features may be available at no cost via Web or smartphone apps, which function nearly as well.

For those seeking to work exclusively with their computer for time and project management and are willing to pay a small cost for full use, Hot Plan for Mac may be a good application.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of FotoMagico for Mac 4.2.