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Realistically, that's all I need. The simpler the better
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I hear you MiniM3. My problem is I do time and material billings, service contract billing, project billings, warranty billings, No charge billings, blah, blah, blah. It gets hard keeping up with all the different things I need to keep track of, thus PI.
However, in using PI I try to keep it simple. I have all of my clients of course in the address book. Then I use the calendar to set appointments, service calls, time on projects and all the other stuff. During these appointments I link the appointment to the client. So I can recall the details later either by looking at the links for that client or by searching the calendar for that reference. Works pretty well actually and not that hard to keep up with. Of course you really have to have a need for this kind of information gathering.
Another thing I like about doing it this way is that I can link a file to the client or project. I have scanned in floor plans of client facilities with details on where our equipment is located to a pdf file. I then link that file to the client and when I need to reference that information, HELLO, its right there at my finger tips and I don't have to go looking for it in My Documents. I can never remember which memory card I put the darn stuff on anyway. :D
Needless to say I use it for other things also, but that's just a sample of some of the things I use PI for. I figured out a long time ago that if you can do everything in one program, it ain't long before you're pretty good at using that one program to do new things. ;)