Hot Plan is a multi-purpose personal planning tool designed to help users collect and manage their thoughts, ideas, projects, but also bookmarks, links and text clips. Moreover it offers a simple and effective method to associate target dates to actions and receive notifications. Features include:
- Unlimited number of plans
- Unlimited number of actions associated to each plan
- Actions offer a rich collection of attributes: title, completion status and percentage, creation date, completion date, target date, days left until target date, tags, priority, labels, locking, notes, external links, notification status
- Plans and actions can be locked to avoid unintentional changes or deletions
- Displayed actions can be filtered using a search string and can include or exclude completed actions
- File, email or Web links can be associated with each action and easily launched as needed
- Bookmarks copied into the clipboard by any application can be easily grabbed and stored
- Text copied into the clipboard by any application can be easily grabbed
- Notifications can be triggered when an action reaches its target date
- Plans can be exported and imported for easy backup or transfer to other computers
- Action notes can be exported and imported as needed using the standard rtfd file format
- Hotkeys can be configured to open the Hot Plan window, grab bookmarks or text clips
- Drop files or URLs on actions to set them as links
- Drag and drop of plans and actions supports copy, move and delete operations
- Play a sound when one of the grabbing hotkeys is pressed
- Options for formatting grabbed texts
- Buttons on the main window for enabling and disabling grabbing
- Statistics inspector for each plan status
- Option to display the completion level of each plan
- Labels for plans, just like actions
- Priorities have associated icons and their names are configurable
- Support for printing plans and actions
- Support for exporting plans and actions in csv and tsv formats
- All date fields offer a popup calender for easy date section
- Separators with titles in the plans table
- Tag editing with autocompletion
- A preferred configuration for newly created plans
- Advanced section in preferences for backing up, restoring and optimizing the database
- Menubar icon with menu to display expiring actions
- Send plans and actions via email directly from Hot Plan
- Calendar view for easy display of actions with target dates set
- Quick entry window for easy creation of new actions by writing just plain english text
- Add Apple's Mail messages as links for actions
- Quickly duplicate actions and plans
- Synchronization with iCal [NEW]
- Keyboard and trackpad based navigation among plans and actions [NEW]
- Realtime preview in quick entry window [NEW]