Attain Delivers Major Upgrade to IN CONTROL

Version 4 of Popular Planner & Organizer adds Internet Tools, Speedier Data
Entry and More

SOMERVILLE, MA, March 29, 1996-Attain Corporation is now shipping IN
CONTROL version 4.0, a major upgrade to its popular Macintosh planner and
organizer software with over 50 new features. Key feature areas include:

* Internet access tools * faster, easier data entry * improved outlining
and scheduling. 

With its powerful combination of multi-column outliner and full-featured
calendars, IN CONTROL helps busy people organize projects, prioritize
tasks and get work done faster. 

Internet Access Tools

These new features tap the power of IN CONTROL's patent-pending Action
Outliner to organize, annotate, categorize, search and sort your favorite
Internet sites, organizing them alongside your other related activities.
The top-requested new features include: 

* Link and launch Internet sites. Easily link any item in your IN CONTROL
outline or calendar to any Internet URL for easy management of the
Internet sites you visit. Doubleclicking a linked item launches your
favorite Internet browser directly to the linked site. 

* Import Netscape Navigator Bookmarks and Internet sites. Sites are
automatically linked. 

Faster, Easier Data Entry

When you're reading e-mail, viewing an electronic document, or browsing the
Internet, you're constantly bombarded with new projects, things to do, and
Internet sites to visit. You can now add new items to IN CONTROL with a
single keystroke or drag of the mouse. These
new data entry features almost completely eliminate typing:

* New Clip-It command. Select text in any application, press a single
keystroke, and the selected text is added as a new item in your outline,
even if IN CONTROL isn't running! 

* New In-Box icon with Drag & Drop support. Drag text from any application
to the In-Box in IN CONTROL's tool bar to automatically create a new item
in your outline. Or drag any file, application, or alias from the Finder
onto an existing outline or calendar item to easily link them.
Double-click your linked item and the linked file opens automatically. 

* Intelligent item creation. If text added using either Clip-It or the
In-Box contains an Internet URL, the new item is automatically linked to
that site for easy launching. If the text contains a date or time, the new
item is automatically scheduled on the calendar. 

Improved Outlining and Scheduling

In this upgrade Attain has beefed up the Action Outliner, the core of IN
CONTROL, with additional organizational and scheduling tools, including: 

* New Reschedule command. Easily adjust the dates of any number of events
at once. 

* New Item Info dialog. See, and set, all item attributes at once. Set
carry-forward, reminder, and link options, adjust start and end dates,
formatting, and more, all from one dialog. 

* Easier networking setup, easier navigation and organization. 

Version 3.5 Features Included

All the features of IN CONTROL 3.5 (also called IN CONTROL For Workgroups)
are included in the new version, including Power Mac acceleration, 40%-80%
speed increases for all Macs, and full networkability. Many other
user-requested features round out the upgrade. 

Beta Tester Response

IN CONTROL beta-tester Michael Tchong, Publisher/Editor of CyberAtlas, San
Francisco, says "The Internet linking feature and Clip-It are dynamite. IN
CONTROL will save me countless hours researching my CyberAtlas site!" 

IN CONTROL Overview

IN CONTROL combines a flexible project outliner, full-featured calendars
and handy to-do lists to help you organize, categorize and prioritize, so
you get more done in less time. You can instantly reorganize your
activities in any order you want and view them either as outlines or
attractive daily, weekly, or monthly schedules. The patent-pending Action
Outliner makes it easy to track every detail and also quickly choose what
to focus on next. 

Technical Specifications

IN CONTROL version 4 runs under Mac OS System 7 and later. Suggested memory
2000K; suggested hard disk space 2.5MB. Runs on all Power Macintosh
computers and on all Macintosh computers with a 68020 processor or
greater. Accelerated for Power Macintosh. 

Pricing, Availability, Background

The expected street price for IN CONTROL version 4.0 is $85. Upgrades are
$34.95. 

IN CONTROL is distributed nationally by Ingram, Merisel and Nacscorp, also
distributed in Japan, France, Germany, Australia, Canada and the United
Kingdom. 

Founded in 1991 by Dan Chadwick and Alan Albert, creators of the
award-winning FileMaker database, Attain Corporation develops, supports
and publishes software to help busy people accomplish more in less time.
Attain also publishes FastPace Instant Contact, contact management
software that tracks over 50,000 names, addresses, and phone numbers and
integrates with IN CONTROL. A Windows version of IN CONTROL is now in beta
testing. 

Attain is headquartered at 48 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144. Phone:
1-800-925-5615, 617-776-1110. Fax: 617-776-1626. Email: info@attain.com.
Internet: http://www.attain.com. 
 
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