Introduction - Features

The Pathways planner is a suite of tools to help you make better decisions and plans. It features tools for:

• Personal and family goal setting.
• Personal and family time-management, including:
• To-do list.
• Appointment schedule.
• Monthly, weekly, and daily calendar with appointments and birthday alerts.
• Printable calendar with photo backgrounds.
• Alarm clock (play music when an event is due).
• Address book.
• Tracking of time usage (progress toward goals).
• "Thought for the day" ideas to help you live a better life.
• Motivational fulfilment evaluation, to help you live a balanced life.
• Planning of alternative paths to your goals.
• Personal and family budgeting.
• Basic financial planning (savings funds, wealth accumulation, and the use of savings).
• Revenue and expense tracking.
• Tracking of financial assets and material wealth.
• Bank balance tracking and bank reconcilliation.
• Person and address book that lets you categorize people into distribution lists, produce mailing labels and reports, and track:
• Names, including family members at each household
• Photos of each person (linked JPEG files)
• Home address and E-mail addresses
• Phone numbers
• Birthdates
• Notes
• Family relationships (basic geneology)
• Handy Filer that lets you store any kind of information, organize it, and perform calculations based on the data.
• Book Reader for any "idea book" or text file.
• Expert system (incorporated into the book reader) that asks questions that may be embedded within a book and presents pre-defined advice from the book based on the answers.
• Pop-up calculator.
• Financial calculator.
• Scheduling of mini-projects.
• Templates for typical kinds of plans.
• Progress tracking for any kind of measurable goal.
• "Merge plan" feature for amalgamating group plans and work logs.
• Project financial analysis (net present value).
• Handling of prerequisites and other kinds of consequences that can be built into a plan. (Cause-effect analysis that support standard methods of logic and conditional probability.)

The Pathways Personal Life Planner will run on a personal computer running Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or any compatible Windows operating system.