This award winning program comes in two varieties: ECCO Professional 2.0 ($279) with "Advanced Features" for power PIM users, including the ability to customize views and create a personalized filing system; and ECCO Simplicity 2.0 ($99) a slightly less sophisticated version for users with more straightforward information management needs. Both versions of ECCO share a large number of features. The following lists some of the main features of ECCO 2.0:
PIM -- Integration that provides multiple views of the data through a unique "outlining" metaphor using extensive cross-referencing; quick start templates are provided.
PhoneBook -- Contact management with contact history; customizable PhoneBook forms; autodialing and autocall logging; unlimited notes and custom fields; shared group phone books.
Calendar -- Daily, weekly, and monthly calendar views; unlimited notes for appointments and To-Do's; automatic customizable multiple alarms for appointments, To-Do's or outline items.
Group Scheduling -- ECCO users on a network can schedule meetings and send messages; automatically schedule resources and find first available common meeting time; supports Microsoft Schedule+.
Workgroups -- Manage and access multi-user phone books, projects, tasks and activities; create public or private (password protected) views for each item.
Global Features -- The "Shooter" feature exchanges text or graphics with other Windows applications; Search can locate data in any ECCO view or file; can synchronize multiple copies of a file; alarms can run a batch file or display a document; compatible with most common E-mail interfaces, OLE 1.0, and DDE-based API; works with Delrina Winfax Pro; supports international currency, date, time and holidays; interfaces to Sharp Wizard, the HP 95LX, and other handhelds; (interfacing with the 100/200LX requires separate IntelliLink program); prints many label and calendar sizes; imports/exports of ASCII text files; and more.
Professional's "Advanced Features" include:
Folders -- User defined folders, drag and drop to cross-referenced multiple folders; group sharing of ECCO folders and outlines.
Columns -- Up to 50 custom columns in any view, pop-up lists to ease column entries and specify entry values.
Files, Sorting, and Forms -- User-definable filters; sort in any view; use forms to automatically add information to one or more folders. (Contact info, see page 55.)