What does HomeSec do?

HomeSec lets you store, sort through and quickly find the information you need and manage your Contacts

What sort of information can I store?

Well, you can store pretty much all kinds of information but, the main purpose, for which HomeSec was created was to store and group together related events.

Data is stored within HomeSec as one of four types:

• Organisations
  The name of a company or other organisation and what it does. There are also two generic Organisations called 'My Family' and 'My Friends' but you can create others if you need them.
  
• Addresses
  The address of any given branch of the Organisation or home address details for a contact. Unlimited addresses may be stored for each Organisation.
  
• Contacts
  People. Contacts may be linked to Organisations and to any of the Org's addresses (as well as personal address details). A Contact may also belong to more than one Organisation. Why? Simply because someone may have more than one role e.g. your bank manager may also serve with you on a committee. By linkinh them to both Organisations, they will appear on the contact list of each.
  
• Events
  What happened, when, with whom, text notes, the outcome etc. There are many event types you can select from (e.g. 'I phoned', 'was written to by', 'had a meeting with' etc.) or you can create your own, if you like. An Event is normally linked to a Contact but, as we know, you sometimes forget a name so, an Event can also be linked to an Organisation, with no Contact details.

How do I use it?

It's very easy. No unneccesary duplicated task bars and menu items or any other clutter. Check out the screen shots.

If you want to see all your dealings with ABC Co then just select them from the Organisations list and click 'View Events for this Org' . Pretty much the same to view your history with any Contact.

The main screen also sports a datagrid. This has three tabbed pages.
The first page displays a list of all your active Reminder Messages. If the date for the Reminder has passed then it is displayed in uppercase

The second page displays 'All Events' - a combination of your own Events and any Public Events entered by another user that they might want you to see.

The third page displays 'My Events' - a list of only your events.

To view details of an Event, times, dates, places, related files, notes etc, just select the correct Event from the datagrid and click the 'View Event' button - it's that easy!

Other features

From buttons on the main screen you can add, edit, remove or view the full details of, Organisations, Addresses, Contacts and Events.

You can email ALL the contacts in the current list (assuming they have email!). You may set the maximum number of recipients for a mail if your email software or service provider limits this figure.

You can set-up, preview and print a list of whatever is currently displayed in the main datagrid.

And, if you want to stay current, HomeSec allows you to catch up with the news headlines, assuming you have a web connection.