Customer Reviews
FranklinCovey's Best Standalone Software Implementation
I'm amazed at the previous reviews of this product. I've been using PlanPlus since February 2006 on six different Windows XP computers: 4 laptops (2 HPs, 1 Dell, and 1 IBM ThinkPad) and 2 desktops (Generic and HP), all running Service Pack 2, without fail.^M
If you have a Tablet, you do not want this.
I've been using PlanPlus 4.11 for about 6-8 months on my Tablet PC running XP Tablet PC SP2. I had some complaints about 4.11 -- it eats CPU, it crashes, I miss some functionality I had with paper (like the ability to write in the margins) -- but 5 lasted about 2 hours before I was uninstalling it and reinstalling 4.11. Why? Well, this one seems to be even slower than 4.11. I can no longer check things off quickly with a pen -- they've created cute little symbols so it now takes longer to check them off. I'm used to thinking with either a pen or keyboard, but this gives me the worst of both -- I can't take advantage of the tablet functionality when I'm locked into selecting a symbol. 4.11 could figure out which symbol I wanted from my handwritten version and substitute it -- 5.0 requires that I select one from the list. SLOW! I also reset my stationary three times -- and I am not a new user of either FC software or software in general -- and it would not keep my preferences. This is the first upgrade I had of any product that was so much worse I went back to the old one. To be honest, if I hadn't already paid for the 4.11 version, I'd probably use GoBinder Lite -- it's free and came with the Tablet. GoBinder from Agilix is the underlying software that supports PlanPlus, so it isn't much different. GoBinder Lite is geared to students, but you can customize most of it to regain PlanPlus functionality. This software is not worth the price -- at any price! I gave it one star only because I could not give it 0.
