At first glance, Organizer looks like any electronic personal-information manager. It lets you book appointments, track a to-do list, keep a list of contacts, and store random bits of information as notes. What sets Organizer apart is how it does these common tasks. Organizer's design premise is that all items, whether an appointment or a to-do, are interchangeable digital bits of information. Think of each entry as one of those little red plastic monkeys you used to hook together in a chain as a kid.
Any configuration works.
Interactively linking items in an electronic organizer is not a new idea. The old Claris Organizer, which now serves as the Palm digital assistant's software, offered linking. Nor could you write outlines, business letters, or memos in Claris Organizer. The Chronos Organizer comes with a word processor that lacks only features like auto correction of spelling errors and capitalization of sentences. Given all the different types of information you can save in Organizer, it doesn't take long to accumulate a tangled mess of appointments, contacts, and memos.