Corel Central

   This software is a personal information manager tool that will help any users to manage their appointments, contacts, emails, and more. The major new feature of this release is the inclusion of a new e-mail application dubbed ‘CorelCENTRAL Mail’. The first time you start this email manager, a wizard will guide you to create email accounts and configure the software to best fit your needs. Totally different from Microsoft Outlook, CorelCENTRAL Mail harbors a minimalist but straightforward interface. CorelCENTRAL Mail lets users send and receive e-mail from several accounts at a time while providing a high level of security. Indeed on the first use the software will create an encrypted digital ID that will be used for secure emails without requiring a third party certificate. Each time you launch the software you can choose a different profile. Honestly the software isn’t complete enough to match Outlook Express or Outlook: you can’t export messages and you can’t even import messages from software like Outlook Express or Outlook. 

CorelCentral 10 (click to enlarge)

When you start CorelCENTRAL, a calendar view will appear at the right of your screen. From it you can view your current meetings/appointments and start your address book.

CorelCentral 10 Calendar (click to enlarge)

The address book will automatically import all of your Windows or MAPI address books contacts! So if you’ve used before Outlook you’re ready to use CorelCentral and you don’t have to recreate a new address book. Best of all, CorelCENTRAL address book can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook. A small reminder will help you to keep your head on your shoulders by reminding the upcoming important appointments.  

You can also write notes with CorelCentral 10. All the notes can be sorted and you can even perform search throughout your existing notes. The calendar is easy to use and display a full view of the upcoming weeks and months. Finally the file maker tool allows you to create cards on things to do, lists and much more. All of this can be easily exported to a Palm Pilot hand held device. All in all, CorelCentral 10 works great but isn’t very useful for most users.