Day-Timer Technologies Launches Day-Timer Organizer 2.0; New version of award-winning personal information manager adds dozens of new features to enhance power, ease of use, familiarity and value.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 1995--Day-Timer Technologies today announced version 2.0 of its award-winning Day-Timer Organizer(TM) personal information manager (PIM) software, offering dozens of advanced features that further boost the program's power, ease of use, and familiarity.

It is available in retail stores and through the Day-Timer catalog as a standalone product and as part of a complete time management system with the popular paper-based Day-Timer products.

Priced at only $59.95, Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 offers the most comprehensive network interfaces and cross-platform support available in any PIM. It is available for MS-Windows and Macintosh platforms, in both single-user and network versions.

"Day-Timer Organizer has been extremely popular because it is very easy to use, and is familiar to paper-based organizer users, while still leveraging the flexibility and power of personal computing," said Kathy Kane, vice president of Day-Timer Technologies. "With this new release, we've taken all of those advantages a step further -- and lowered the price significantly -- setting a new standard for ease of use, power, and value."

Day-Timer Organizer provides scheduling, task management, address book, notebook and expense tracking functions in tightly integrated, easily navigated modules. Like Day-Timer Organizer 1.0, version 2.0 of the popular package mimics the world-famous paper-based Day-Timer system, so that users of paper planners can easily transition to Day-Timer Organizer on their personal computer or network systems.

New Features

Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 offers dozens of new features and enhancements. Highlights include:

Improved telephony features. Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 features support for the TAPI and TSAPI telephony interfaces, allowing users to more fully integrate their phones and PCs. This support, combined with the product's new call handling features such as Speed Dial, Hold, Forward/Transfer, and Conference calling, enables users to manage calls quickly and easily from within the Day-Timer Organizer program. In addition, Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 provides a caller identification screen that automatically pops up and displays information on incoming callers.

New address book functions. With Day-Timer Organizer 2.0, users can now customize labels and address layouts, enter up to four electronic mail addresses for each contact, and search for names and addresses using a powerful custom search option. Users can also attach spreadsheets, word processing documents and other files to an address record -- or to a meeting, to-do list or any other type of entry -- for easy viewing and access.

Easier printing. The new version offers a wider variety of printing options, enabling users to more easily take their electronic information "to go." Users can, for example, select a single module from the daily planner -- such as a schedule or to-do list -- to print. They can also customize layouts for printing international addresses.

Enhanced third-party application support. Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 makes it easier for VARs and third-party developers to integrate the product with customized and off-the-shelf applications through a new API utilizing Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) from Microsoft.

Enhanced network support. The only full-featured, cross platform PIM that is network-ready right out of the box, Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 features improved user administration facilities, and a new, streamlined TeamOrganizer(TM) view for point-and-click scheduling of multiple participants for meetings, workshops and other group activities. Day-Timer Organizer for networks also offers automatic notification of meeting invitees, task delegation, messaging, and selective sharing of addresses and notes. Network and single versions of the software may be combined to support up to 720 users per database.

"Our users are increasingly linking their personal computers to local area networks and working collaboratively within groups, so we emphasized network support with this release," said Kane. "Now workgroups can schedule meetings, coordinate tasks and brainstorm ideas easily and quickly, using their familiar Day-Timer tools. Both individuals and workgroups can increase their productivity with Day-Timer Organizer 2.0."

Day-Timer Organizer for networks runs on Novell NetWare (v 2.15 or higher), NetWare Lite, Banyan, IBM, Microsoft, LANtastic, Windows for Workgroups, and other fully NETBIOS-compatible networks. For easy installation and maintenance, Day-Timer Organizer for networks reads the Novell Directory Services and Banyan's StreetTalk facilities.

Other new features with Day-Timer Organizer 2.0 include enhanced sorting, improved mechanisms for database synchronization, improved mail/merge, easier data import features, and enhanced drag and drop capabilities.

About Day-Timer Technologies

Day-Timer Technologies is a joint venture between Day-Timers Inc., the world leader in time management products, and Kensington Microware, Ltd., developer of a broad range of award-winning computer peripherals, software and accessories to enhance the personal computer user's environment. Both companies are owned by ACCO World Corporation, a core business group of American Brands, a $14 billion global consumer products holding company.

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Kathy Kane, 415/572-6260 ext. 3307