I've done a lot of Windows development myself. If people are genuinely interested in an Outlook add-in for doing action plans, please let me know. Although I think that an application 110% focused on RE is ultimately the better solution (provided it is done right), you can't deny the fact that Outlook has a huge and well an exceptionally well-established user base. The good thing is that you could probably put something together in a relatively short time-frame. If you have ideas or interest, feel free to email directly via the board.

Thanks!

There is already an add-on for outlook to convert it to real estate specific.

http://www.eurekaware.com/Default.asp

It is $39.95

There is also a Business Contact Manager that is already an add-on with Office. You just have to have your disk and add it on. It would not be RE specific though.

Paul, thanks for the link to EurekaWare. I was thinking of an add-in to address defining action plans within Outlook. For instance, creating meetings and tasks at specific dates or anchoring their creation time to when items are completed. It would also be easy to add merge events, etc. if useful. Is there an easy way to get this done today in Outlook?

Sorry, I should have been clearer in my original comment that I feel that a full *desktop* application focused on real-estate (and not an add-in) would be the ideal solution. I've never liked how Outlook manages contacts and relationships. IHMO, Business Contact Manager is only a modest improvement on this. Add-ons for other products like ACT! also are just bolting the RE business processes onto their existing model vs. serving it exclusively. I realize there are products like AgentOffice and TopProducer, however; they have some serious quirks as well it seems.