Jesse Farr, Review: Time & Chaos (Including One Gripe)
TechnoLawyer member Isaac Steinfeld asks:
"Our office does not currently have any shared calendar and contact list (Rolodex type) for all personnel. Do you have any recommendations for a simple, economical network based shared calendar and contact list. We are currently using Outlook Express so Outlook is not an option at this time. Thanks."
Thomas E. Stirewalt Jr. responded:
"In my experience, the best thing out there is a program called Time & Chaos which gives you a fully functional 30-day evaluation copy to download, and then if you decide to buy for $49 you get an unlock code and all the data you have entered from the trial period is still there...."
We in my office have used Time & Chaos for many years. Just about all you have already been told is absolutely true and if anything doesn't do it justice. My only gripes about it is that the notes section will not run on forever; so, we have to store all over a lot (some 20 or 30 pages, maybe even 50, I don't even know how many characters large) in some other word processing file and then go on with later model notes. It also doesn't allow for automatic time chain construction. Other than that, it is pretty much a lawyer's dream. Every time I go and look at some other high dollar case management solution, I quickly come back to Time & Chaos as it is quicker and easier, while doing almost everything we want.
(I don't own any of it or get any benefit of this totally unsolicited endorsement, either; darn it!)
Go look at it, play with it and you'll like it.
Jesse Farr
Soddy, TN
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