Over the past two weeks, we tried out Success Planner, a Muslim organizer software. And we liked it! Alhamdulillah, it is a fit for Productive Muslims. Here's our detailed review :)

Success Planner is an easy to use, easy to navigate, and interactive calandar/ scheduler/ Salah reminder - an "all in one" Islamic diary. It can used for both professional (meetings, reminders, etc) and religious needs (salah reminder, adhan, daily hadith and verse of the Quran, etc).

Some of the features Success Planner includes are:

• Daily Reminders from Qur'an and Hadith: Everyday as you open the Success Planner, you will see new Verse from Qur'an and Hadith.

• Reminders about Islamic Events in a year: Success Planner not only reminds you of the event, but also gives you some suggestions for doing the good deeds for that day or duration

• Gregorian and Hijri Calendar: Success Planner gives the Dual Calendar.

• Five Times Azaan Reminder: If you are in a meeting, one can “snooze” the reminder. Success Planner will remind you again about the upcoming Salah. This is my favorite feature! Click "lock" and within a second, you are locked out on your computer. This is excellent like me, who's always tempted to finish that train of thought. And ends up delaying salah. This one click of "Lock" makes me get to my salah right that instance.

• Calendar features: Daily calendar view with a hourly breakdown. You can set appointments, reminders to these appointments and entering Salah points, reviewing the appointments

• Appointments creation & reminders: Success planner will make sure that, the user is aware of Prayer times while setting appointments

• Prayer Points Calculations: Success Planner provides a prayer points calculation function. You enter your points - based on how you prayed– with Jamaat (27 points), without Jamaat (1 point). It's a multiple choice option. I'm not too sure about this feature. How about the sisters - who might not have an oppurtunity to pray in Jam'ah? They always get a "1" point? An area of improvement for sure, insha Allah

• Habits from Qur'an: Successful habits are selected from Surah Mominun (verses 1-10) and Surah Al-Imran (verse 104)

• Success Planner helps you set targets on how to achieve 7 habits – the targets can be set for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. Success Planner then provides regular reminders and close follow-ups, helps you adopt these 7 habits.

• Roles in Life: A person to be successful in this life and the next, needs to perform various roles in life. The essential ones are list in Success Planner. One can set targets in each role for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly

• Target's follow-up: categorize them as Not Started, Started, In progress, Completed, Overdue targets or can be grouped on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis

• Other features include, Prayer performance charts (graphical representation based on your "points"), Notes section, Printing options and RSS feeds. RSS feeds help you to have selected news links on desktop and access to news headlines.

To purchase and read more about Success Planner (MindSoft CompuTech) at: http://www.mindsoftct.com/SPHome.html