Introduction - Features

These screen shots are from the prior version of Pathways. The new version, V6, has some additional features, but the features shown on these older screen shots are still avaialable in pretty much the same appearance that you will see here. What is different is that there are some additional forms and additional boxes or options on some forms. This web page will eventually be replaced but meanwhile it still gives you a bit of an overview.

Note: The colors on forms depend on your windows color scheme. The same content is available as in the illustrations, but the background color depends on your Windows settings.

The Pathways planner features tools for:

Personal and family goal setting.
Personal and family time-management, including:

To-do list.
Appointment schedule.
Monthly, weekly, and daily calendar with appointments and birthday alerts.
Printable calendar with photo backgrounds.
Alarm clock (play music when an event is due).
Address book.
Tracking of time usage (progress toward goals).

"Thought for the day" ideas to help you live a better life.
Motivational fulfilment evaluation, to help you live a balanced life.
Planning of alternative paths to your goals.
Personal and family budgeting.
Basic financial planning (savings funds, wealth accumulation, and the use of savings).
Revenue and expense tracking.
Tracking of financial assets and material wealth.
Bank balance tracking and bank reconcilliation.
Person and address book that lets you categorize people into distribution lists, produce mailing labels and reports, and track:

Names, including family members at each household
Photos of each person (linked JPEG files)
Home address and E-mail addresses
Phone numbers
Birthdates
Notes
Family relationships (basic geneology)

Handy Filer that lets you store any kind of information, organize it, and perform calculations based on the data.
Book Reader for any "idea book" or text file.
Expert system (incorporated into the book reader) that asks questions that may be embedded within a book and presents pre-defined advice from the book based on the answers.
Pop-up calculator.
Financial calculator.
Scheduling of mini-projects.
Templates for typical kinds of plans.
Progress tracking for any kind of measurable goal.
"Merge plan" feature for amalgamating group plans and work logs.
Project financial analysis (net present value).
Handling of prerequisites and other kinds of consequences that can be built into a plan. (Cause-effect analysis that support standard methods of logic and conditional probability.)

The Pathways Personal Life Planner will run on a personal computer running Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or any compatible Windows operating system.