BugMe! from Haus of Maus
BugMe! is a cute little application by Iain Barclay. BugMe! is a pop-up reminder program that lets you quickly jot a note, then set an alarm for when the note should pop-up and it'll "bug you" at the appointed time. BugMe! lets you scribble on the screen or enter text using Graffiti. BugMe! is great for when you need to remember something in an hour or so and don't want to bother with the process of setting an alarm in the Palm device's Date Book.

Action Names and SalesWarrior from Iambic
Action Names was a classic extension to the time management capabilities of the ill-fated Apple Newton MessagePad. But when the Newton was in it's heyday, we used and loved Action Names. Well, thankfully, Action Names is now available on the Palm device and, although it's had to be toned down for the smaller screen, it's still a very useful tool. Like DateBk3 and ToDo Plus, Action Names uses the existing Palm To Do and Date Book databases, making it fully Palm Desktop compatible. The big benefit that Action Names offers is that you can view your information in clear and interesting ways. Our favorite is the view that shows multiple days and all the calls, To Do items, and appointments together.

SalesWarrior, shown in Figure A, is a sales tracking application for your Palm computer. Like ACT! or GoldMine on the PC, SalesWarrior allows you to track sales opportunities, leads, referral sources, actual sales, products and their part numbers, and commissions. This is the first integrated, fully featured sales management system we've seen for the Palm computer. We didn't think it was possible to fit all this complexity into the tiny Palm screen, but it seems to work really well.

FIGURE A

You'll conquer your competitors with SalesWarrior.

Lotus Organizer 5.0
Finally, we move from the Palm device itself to the PC desktop. Although the Palm Desktop application is a functional piece of work, it is not what you'd call a power-PIM. Lotus Organizer is, with an emphasis on the "power". Lotus claims that there are over 35 million Organizer users worldwide. Organizer looks and works like a manual planner -- with tabs and pages that turn. Like other PIMs, it's all-in-one tool that will schedule appointments, manage contacts, make to-do lists, keep notes, and share calendars.

What makes Organizer interesting to us are two elements: the Palm linkage and it's connectivity. Organizer can schedule with other users across the Internet using iCalendar. And for those users who are Notes and Domino-capable, Organizer becomes a serious group working environment. Nice, but what makes it a PalmPower Editors' Choice winner is that it also works well with the Palm computer, right out of the box.

Be on the Outlook
The products that won the award in this category are those that integrate with Microsoft Outlook. These products, in particular, are interesting because they also interact well with our PIM winners.

Desktop To Go from DataViz
Desktop To Go, as shown in Figure B, has long been respected as the leading connection solution between the Palm computer and Outlook and Schedule+.