Zoho Planner being shut down

Zoho Planner is a service I wrote about this past April that was a very useful way to get organize and plan out your schedule and activities. It allowed you to create to-do lists, notes, upload images and files add email reminders and access your data anywhere.

I just received a notice from Zoho that they are shutting down Zoho Planner. The full notice can be seen below. Planner will remain online until December 31st 2012 but will switch to read only soon. Users will need to back up their data before the end of the year when all data will be erased. Zoho has a support site and email available and reminds users that they can use Zoho Calendar, Wiki and Tasks to replace Zoho planner.

You can also use Google's many services and Evernote to get organized and replace Zoho Planner.

See links to other services and the full shut down notice below.

Related:

Zoho - suite of on-line business, productivity & collaboration apps

Alternatives to Google's web services and apps

Google for Educators Resources

Evernote for Educators Resources

Important Notice Regarding Your Zoho Planner Subscription

First and foremost, we want to thank you for being a Zoho Planner user. From time to time we need to review our wide portfolio of services, and make sure they are performing to our, and our customers', expectations. As a result of that, we have decided to discontinue our Zoho Planner service. We realize that as a current user, this change directly affects you today, which is why we wanted to inform you of this decision today before making it public. Though soon the product will be removed from our Zoho.com homage, you will still be able to access your data by logging in directly at planner.zoho.com. Don't worry, Zoho Planner will remain online from now until December 31st, 2012. However, it will soon switch to a read-only mode. That should give you plenty of time to back up your data, as after that date we will erase everything related to Zoho Planner from our servers. For any product-related questions during this time, you can continue to contact us at support@zohoplanner.com, where we will be happy to help you. Although Zoho Planner is going again, you should know that most of what you can do with it today, you can accomplish through a combination of other services, like Zoho Calendar, Zoho Wiki and Tasks (part of our Zoho Mail suite). So we certainly plan to keep you in the Zoho family! We thank you for being our user and we're sorry we can no longer provide this service. At the same time, we're refocusing our efforts on some of our other Zoho applications, and we're very excited about what the future holds for them. Sincerely, The Zoho Team

Zoho launches Zoho Sites website builder

  

Zoho is a service that provides online business, productivity, and collaboration apps, many of them for free. While Zoho is very focused on businesses and enterprise, it does have a huge number of apps for personal and educational use. Every app has a free personal version. It is a direct competitor to Google's apps.

Today, Zoho is launching Zoho Sites, a free, easy to use web site builder. It is easy to use with a drag-and-drop interface and no need to learn HTML. The sites are automatically optimized for mobile and have support for Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Google Maps, YouTube, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.

The themes are really nice and a great place to start your site. You can also include forms, videos, maps, images and more into your site.

The free version includes: 2 sites, mobile website, blogs, 2 forms/site, dynamic content, 1 custom theme/site, and a maximum file upload size of 5MB per file. In comparison, Google Sites has no limit to the number of sites or blogs (through Blogger), unlimited forms and themes, mobile sites, and a file upload maximum of 20 MB. Google Sites also has a classroom website template that makes it very easy to create a classroom website.

Zoho Sites is a nice alternative to other web site builders.

You can upgrade to Zoho Sites Pro for $39/year for more features.

Here's a video about Zoho Sites:





Related:

Zoho - suite of on-line business, productivity & collaboration apps

Zoho Planner - plan, organize, share, and get things done

Alternatives to Google's web services and apps

Why I Use Google's Products as an Educator

Other Web Site Creators

Google for Educators Resources

Evernote for Educators Resources

Zoho Planner - plan, organize, share, and get things done

Zoho Planner is part of Zoho's suite of productivity tools (read more about them here). With Zoho Planner you can create to-do lists, notes, upload images and files add email reminders and access your data anywhere. You can create To Dos, Appointments (calendar), and Reminders and set reminders for each one (will email you).

You can create a page where you can create your to dos, appointments, notes, and files and make the page available to others. You also have a section for pages that were shared with you, your To Do list and Appointments, attached files and even tag your page.

You can share and collaborate on notes and tasks lists in Zoho planner too.

It's similar in function to Evernote and Google's applications and is a good alternative to them if you are looking for something different.

Students can also use it to get organized.

Related:

Zoho - suite of on-line business, productivity & collaboration apps

Alternatives to Google's web services and apps

Google for Educators Resources

Evernote for Educators Resources