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It feels like I’ve been waiting forever, and it’s almost here. If you have trouble keeping all of your appointments, tasks, contacts, projects, and opportunities organized 24/7, like most normal humans, everything is about to change. If you want to relieve stress, spend less time working, and get twice as much done, Daylite Touch could be your ultimate weapon.
What is Daylite?
Marketcircle’s Daylite is a full-featured small business management application for the Mac Operating System. Numerous business owners (including myself) have purchased Macs just to be able to use this program.
How does it work?
Daylite is a CRM, or Customer Relationship Manager, although it does much more. It organizes information into several categories:
- Contacts - All the people you communicate with, organized in groups of your design.
- Organizations - Companies that your contacts belong to.
- Appointments - Calendar events that you can group using lists and smart lists.
- Projects - Collections of two or more tasks, like designing a website or writing a report.
- Opportunities - Projects where the outcome is out of your control, like sales. I even use it for dating. No lie.
- Tasks - Individual actions relating to your contacts, organizations, projects, opportunities, etc.
Daylite allows you to link relevant contacts, organizations, projects, tasks, opportunities, organizations, appointments, and notes. That puts all of your relevant information right at your fingertips, so you can stop searching for files and GET THINGS DONE.
What makes it special?
Daylite is a productivity mastermind. It integrates with Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book. When an email comes in, it only takes a couple clicks to save it in your address book and link it to any related contacts, projects, or opportunities.
Here is a brief list of amazing things you can do in Daylite:
- Click on a contact in Daylite (on your Mac), and have your cellphone magically call that contact. No hands!
- Sync data and transactions between Daylite and major accounting software packages, like MYOB Accountedge and MoneyWorks.
- Have the software automatically generate daily reports and email it to you.
- Connect Daylite to Lightspeed for a complete Point-of-Sale solution.
- It only takes two clicks to access a contact or organization’s web server in your FTP application.
- It could probably solve global warming and destroy poverty, just with a few lines of Applescript.
From Clicking to Touching…
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Thanks to Daylite Touch, which will be released in the first quarter of this year, I will be able to use that “productivity genius” in the palm of my hand, rather than just in my hard drive.
Daylite Touch is the iPhone version of the Mac application. I’ll have access to all of my contacts, organizations, projects, opportunities, tasks, appointments, calendars, and notes - all synced through the air with my iPhone.
I’ve tried pretty much every little gadget in my quest to become more productive. Remember the Milk, GTDinbox/Gmail, Nozbe, Todo.app, Omnifocus, Omnioutliner, Things, Toodledo, Vitalist, Entourage, iGoogle, etc. I’m not sure how many I just left out, but I do know that it’s many. Throughout my search to become great at getting things done, I’ve noticed that practically every productivity tool is lacking that “missing link,” but I must admit that Daylite is pretty decent when it comes to linking.
I’ve been following its development since before they publicly announced it, and the wait it almost over. Macworld loves it, and I can’t wait to see if Daylite Touch truly is my productivity dream.
Click here to learn more about Daylite Touch.
