Omea Pro 3 - to be released

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 7, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Hi Stephen (and Daly)

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Does Omea have any value for someone who doesn’t use Outlook, or is all the power
>in its coordination with Outlook?

I’m not sure anyone can answer that question; Omea Pro appears to be completely tied to Outlook only as far as email is concerned “You can work with email in Omea Pro IF you have one of the following versions of Microsoft Outlook™ installed on your PC” ( http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/features/moremail.html ) However, I have not tried it for myself to be certain.

Nevertheless, I would argue that even if you don’t use Outlook as your main e-mail application, you may still have it installed as part of MS Office and use it in parallel by (a) not deleting messages from the server and (b) BCCing any important messages you send to yourself. I have done this in the past when I dealt with mass personalised e-mails through an application that only worked with Outlook. I then used Outlook only to send the messages, and received them back in my main e-mail program (The Bat!).

In other respects, Omea Pro works directly with the file system and stuff like RSS feeds. For bookmark management, it supports most popular browsers. For instant messaging, it only works with Miranda and ICQ.

So I guess that it depends on how much e-mail is part of your workflow (it is certainly a great part of mine) to not worry about maintaining it in a separate system.

alx