Marg EssentialPIM

The database is very unstable I set it up and used it for 6 days than it would not load and I was facing a blank screen . Tried solutions posted to community blog and none worked .Wrote a maintenance request and the reply did not help .Paid 185.00 for a lifetime membership but have given up .Too frustrating to use

I happily used the free Epim for years. Since I'm in my mid-80s, long retired, I had no use for any feature other than the color-coded Calendar, which I loved since my eyesight is poor and the colors helped enormously in maintaining medical and church appointments. I'd installed it on my first Windows 10 laptop, upgraded from an early Windows 7. This laptop is in poor condition. The Epim Calendar is still on that laptop, working fine, but the computer (which is long out of warranty) doesn't work well. It overheats and can't be left on very long. So I got a new Windows 10 in May 2020 and installed Epim. It ran well but after a couple of months suddenly the entire Calendar disappeared, including the word "Calendar." There was no link name to click on. All I got was a white screen with confusing small print letters that no one with bad eyesight could have figured out. I used a magnifying lens, however, and the word "Calendar" wasn't anywhere. I tried calling for Help and live Chat, but got nothing but responses from an arrogant man who kept telling me there was nothing wrong! He wasn't interested in helping someone who wasn't a hacker. Your "upgrades" apparently don't contain the very feature that people loved Epim for--your Calendar! Personally I have no use for any other feature. At least that old formerly Windows 7 allows me to print out weekly calendars ahead of time and handwrite newly-made appointments--but they're no longer automatic, color coded, or conveniently on the laptop I regularly use.

The word "Calendar" suddenly and without warning popped off EPIM on my new Windows 10 about a year ago, and I have attempted to regain it several times. I can't get into my calendar. All I could get for "custromer service" was a useless, elitist guy with an impermeable Russian accent (and very little English) telling me that EPIM was working--which, of course, it wasn't or I wouldn't have phoned. I gave up! While I've printed out the weekly calendar forms through April 2022, including some repeating events like birthdays and every-other-day Meals on Wheels, I have been filling in the new dates with pen & pencil for months. EPIM's customer service, unless, perhaps, you're in Russia, is utterly disgusting.

I love the concept but the app is far too unstable. Simple things such as moving a task to a later date cause unpredictable problems such as duplicates or entries missing. I gave up and went back to Thunderbird

The calendar is perfect and i have no problems with the task and contacts etc. But i totally gave up on syncing my tablet to my desktop computer. It just would not work. The email is jerky and troublesome and the junk mail operation is a joke. It does nothing. So i use Outlook for the mail and address book and Essential PIM for the calendar. What a shame.