Records Master 4.4 review

Records Master is MacOS X software that allows you to collect important records (such as bank statements or receipts) in a database and allow for easy addition of new records, easy access to existing records, and optional automatic backup of the database.

License: Trial OS: Mac OS X File size: 1588K Developer: John Woodward Buy Now Price: $24.00 Updated: 09 Jan 2007

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Records Master is MacOS X software that allows you to collect important records (such as bank statements or receipts) in a database and allow for easy addition of new records, easy access to existing records, and optional automatic backup of the database.

Records Master can be refered as a replacement for a file cabinet but with easier filing and retrieval.

A trend today with financial institutions and utilities is to stop sending paper copies of bills and statements, and instead make them available online. However, this information is not available online forever, and is inconvenient to access across all of your financial institutions because you have to login to multiple web sites. If you wanted to see all your statements for December of 2003, you would have a lot of work to do.

Though the online statements are often available for downloading, you have problem of organizing the information. Records Manager addresses this problem by providing a database customized for storing and accessing such records in a single database file. If you still get some statements only in paper form and you have a scanner, then you might find it more convenient to scan the statements and store them in Records Manager rather than maintaining a paper file system.

You could also scan and organize receipts, instructions, etc. Also, MacOS X allows you to print anything to PDF, which you could then save in Records Manager.

Even though Records Master was motivated by the problem of managing large amounts of bills and statements, it can be used to organize any files on your computer.

Limitations:
You can try it out for 60 days, but if you still use it thereafter, you must register it.

What's New:
The height of the panel to display all reminders is now remembered (until relaunch) if the user changes it.
Improved error checking in the add/edit custom attribute name dialog.
Fixed a bug in creating custom attribute names.
Fixed a bug deleting files (introduced in 4.0).