Online Planners and Organizers: Plan Your Day; It’s Just a Mouse Click Away!
3 Stars – It Rocks!
2 Stars – Not So Bad!
1 Star – Hope they didn’t quit their day job!
KeepandShare
Freelance Weekly Rating: 3 Stars
About: KeepandShare is owned by Gee whiz Labs, Inc., with KeepandShare being their main product. This system was developed in 2003, and boasts of over 780,000 users.
Set Up: In order to sign up for an account all you need to do is enter your email address, choose a user name and password.
Navigation: Once in the program, you can choose between tabs such as calendar, photos or documents, making navigation easy.
Sharing: Your Calendar can be shared with an unlimited number of people; public or private.
Pricing: A free account is offered which includes online calendar, document and photo uploads up to a maximum file size of 10 mb. The next option is the Personal Account-Ad Free for $2.49 per month or $24.99 per year. With this account you receive the same options as the free account but the user can upload up to 10,000 photos. The Personal Deluxe Package, for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year, includes all above options with up to 20,000 photo uploads and a maximum upload file size of 50 mb all.
Customer Service: Email from the website or by phone.
Recommendation: The free account has enough storage space to accommodate most users and if more space is needed it can be purchased for a very low monthly price. It’s easy to sign up, requires no software, and is easily navigable with multiple sharing allowed. I highly recommend this online calendar and planner.
Skoach
Freelance Weekly Rating: 2 Stars
About: Skoach is a web-based time management tool. It offers guidance and support for all your tasks from beginning to end.
Set Up: Select your plan, choose a user name and password and you are ready to get started. There is no software to download.
Navigation: The Skoach wizards walk you through everything required to customize your calendar to your unique needs. Once you’ve been through the customization, you can start entering appointments, house work, errands and much more.
Sharing: The Skoach calendar can be shared with an unlimited number of people. You simply send an invitation, and once it’s accepted, that person is linked to your calendar.
Pricing: Users have their choice of a one month plan for $15.00, a three month plan for $36.00, or a six month plan for $54.00.
Customer Service: Links are available on the website for both an online user’s manual as well as a support email.
Recommendation: While Skoach’s price is very affordable, I found the planner not as user friendly in the navigation as others.
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Bravenet
Freelance Weekly Rating: 1 Star
About: Bravenet was founded in 1997 to provide users with free web tools such as guest books, calendars, hit counters, and many others.
Set Up: To sign up you first choose the free account and enter an email address. Once you pick a user name and password, you are on your way to having an online calendar. That is, once you’ve been taken through multiple product offers asking you to subscribe to them, you will finally get to the online set up wizard.
Navigation: After you sign up you choose which calendar view you would like. Once that is chosen, the user may start entering appointments by double clicking on the day.
Sharing: The user has the ability to share with anyone they wish by simply sending an invitation via email.
Pricing: Free
Customer Service: Customer service is available through the easily navigable and searchable online user forums from the Bravenet Community or by opening a support ticket from the site by email.
Recommendation: Sometimes you get what you pay for. This site lacks many of the features you get free with other online calendar sites. The multiple offers given to you during the signup process were a turn off for this user.
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