Lotus organizer
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| developer | lotus |
| Current version | 6.1 (2003) |
| operating system | IBM OS / 2 , Microsoft Windows |
| category | Personal information management |
| License | Proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/organizer/ | |
The Lotus Organizer is personal information management (PIM) software from the Lotus Development Corporation (now an IBM company ).
It offers a range of functions similar to Microsoft Outlook , but does not contain its own e-mail function. External e-mail programs such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird can, however, be integrated without any problems.
IBM stopped selling the program as part of the Lotus Smartsuite office suite or in version 6.0 or 6.1 as a standalone product on June 11, 2013.
File format
An .OR6 (or .OR5) file contains all data in different tabs: Calendar = appointment entries, planner = all-day events, contacts = addresses, activities = tasks, anniversaries = birthdays or anniversaries (automatically displayed here when entered under Contacts) , Notepad = Pages of Text, Web = Internet Links, Calls = Log phone calls.
Due to the similarity to a paper diary, the learning curve is very low. Anyone who compares (synchronizes) the entries with a portable organizer or even a mobile phone can access all entries while on the move, be woken up in time for appointments and never miss an appointment even without a paper calendar.
The data can be imported from address files of all kinds. It is important that the data fields are correctly assigned during the import. When importing from Microsoft Outlook , there are seldom, mostly minor, problems: While the 136 data fields for contacts in the Lotus Organizer were transferred almost identically by Outlook, instead of the start time and duration in the calendar, Outlook has a start date / time and end date / time . But there are solutions to these problems. The simplest is a conversion program that converts Outlook completely into a Lotus Organizer file.
A major advantage of the Lotus Organizer is the network capability with recorded shared registers. Without expensive Exchange servers, if the Lotus Organizer is correctly installed in the network, information entered by a user can be automatically displayed to all other users in the network in their own organizer. For this reason and because of its clearly designed user interface, which, thanks to its similarity to a pocket calendar, ensures intuitive handling without lengthy training, the Lotus Organizer is more popular than Outlook or Lotus Notes with small to medium-sized companies and private users . Although it is apparently no longer advertised by IBM and significantly further developed, the Lotus Organizer 6.1 can be used with all 32- and 64-bit Windows operating systems, since Windows 95 and including Windows 10, without any problems.
On September 30, 2014, IBM ended support for Lotus Organizer.
Versions
| version | File format | year | comment |
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| 1.0 | .ORG | August 1992 | |
| 1.0a | .ORG | December 1992 | |
| 1.1 | .ORG | 1993 | |
| 1.12 | .ORG | January 1994 | |
| 1.13 | .ORG | December 1994 | SmartSuite 3.0 |
| 2.0 | .OR2 | December 6, 1994 | |
| 2.1 | .OR2 | July 25, 1995 | SmartSuite 4.0 |
| 2.11 | .OR2 | 1996 | |
| 97 (3.1) | .OR3 | June 1996 | SmartSuite 97 |
| 97 GS (4.0) | .OR4 | 1997 | |
| 4.1 | .OR4 | 1998 | SmartSuite 98 / SmartSuite for OS / 2 Warp |
| 5 | .OR5 | 1999 | SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5-9.8.x |
| 6.0 | .OR6 | 1999 | |
| 6.1 | .OR6 | 2003 |
Web links
- IBM: Lotus Organizer ( Memento June 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on archive.org