TREKKER  Painful-to-use program. Nothing like it's forerunner, Now-Up-To-Date and Now Contact which was developed and written in the early 90's by great programmers (Dave Riggle http://www.busymac.com/about.html) who are long gone -- now they produce BusyCal, which is what Now-Up-To-Date used to be and NowX isn't. I used the former Now programs (from the original developers) since the early-90's and loved them. This version is a giant leap backwards in almost every way.

Very unintuitive -- especially compared to NUD/C. Convoluted interface with hard-to-find buttons/controls for what are common everyday tasks, making it frustrating to use. Unreliable and buggy syncing. Far fewer features and less ease-of-use than NUD/C, which was written in the 90's for goodness sake! Basic drag and drop functionality glaringly missing from some places it's needed most. I could go on and on...

And did I mention it's been delivered, half-baked, almost three YEARS after it was promised to be released and money was collected from customers and has been held for all these years for the "upgrade"?!?! Questionable planning skills and questionable business practices, to say the least. Way too little, too late.

Contactizer Pro, Daylite, and (can you believe it?!?!) SOHO Organizer are way better, IMO. BusyCal is also looking pretty good! Do yourself a favor and check them out before even considering NowX.  
(Version 10.0)

DONPERREAULT  Three years for this, what a joke!  
(Version 10.0)

GARY54  I have been a NOW user for years. There is still nothing else out there like it. I waited like most of us for a long time for this update ... I tried it out and I can think of only three words to describe it: P.O.S. What a boatload.

The folks I feel sorry for are the saps who bought in to the pre release purchase. Some of them have been left hanging for two or more year for this junk to appear.

I've tried every alternate contact manager / calendar out there, and I'm sticking with the old Now 5.3 until it dies of system upgrade failure or someone comes up with something decent to use. Its really sad that for such basic meat and potatoes type of software as a contact manager that no one can come up with anything really good for the Mac.

The built in Address book is a simplistic joke, iCal doesn't even do basic stuff like alternate fonts or have any sharing features unless you buy into Mobile Me or spring for the server software. Five hundred bucks to run a calendar? You must me kidding me. Busy Cal is getting there, but still doesn't have any global font settings and there is no address book other than Apples to talk to.

I have tried 'em all. Every single one of these folks trying to come up with a contact manger/ calendar seem to have got on some sort of wiz-bang gee wow who can out do who visual fantasy ride with core animation and forgot to get the basics right first.

Can the user actually use it quickly and efficiently to do what its supposed to do FIRST. Then if you want to have fun doing the little visual stuff, then go for it. Take all the features and abilities of the old Now, get it to talk to the new built in technologies and actually work ... how big a software development problem can that be?  
(Version 10.0)

DENNYMOREJ  This is one of those times when I could just kick myself for not believing the reviews and instead put stock Now Software's hype and some glossy photo. The upgrade is seriously a joke. I mean is actually worse than before. I feel completely clowned. Like other reviewers I have been a long time user. First to get it up and running is a bizarre easter egg hunt, a huge waste of time. Then the reveal. There is no logic in the way information is presented. Besides ugly we are treated to ridiculous proportions of dead space. Looks nothing like the pictures, and believe me the interface with other apple software is useless if you never used it before. I mean how many address books do I need? It is nice to not have to open "contact" and "up to date" to access supposedly integrated data, but not worth the 50 dollar upgrade. Don't do it. You will be pissed at Now Software for ripping you off. The only favor they did me is load apple's "Address Book" with my info. I will never let Now Software rip me off again.   
(Version 10.0)

GSKIBUM  I've been using NUDC for about 12 years. After the long wait for NowX, I must say that my disappointment is extreme.

As others have said - too little, too late.

I would have stayed with NUDC, but they abandoned syncing with Address Book in Leopard.

I can't wait to get rid of this and move on to something else. Possibly SOHO 8.

The hard part is going to be fixing the catastrophe NowX has made out of my calendar.  
(Version 10.0)

MONTY LEE  I used several versions of the beta and now the final release. This version does NOT have the server (with no definite date for the server release) so you cannot share the calendar. In fact, the new format precludes readily transferring the data file to another computer (like you could with NUD 5.x). First, the file is in the Application Support folder and does not support a different location (so you can't use Drobbox). Second, the database is not truly updated until you quit Now Services (Option-Quit), meaning that you can really hose your database (I did) if you move the file.

Next, the import from NUD 5.x is OK, but fails to transfer many of the graphics, including internal graphics like New Moon, Full Moon, etc. WARNING: I found that "automatic" feature during installation and the initial run not reliable. If you do not clear iCal, you can get tons of duplicates (something pointed out many times during the beta cycle). I don't believe this was ever fixed reliably. Duplicates are a real big problem, especially as NowX sync's with iCal. For some reason once it sync's, it sees the iCal event as new and copies it to NowX. I'm on my 3rd try to get a working, reliable interface between NowX and iCal.

Frequent "mini-crashes" that bring up an alert to notify NowX, but does not seem to crash the program. Most of these occurred with manipulating graphics.

No way to copy and event and paste it on another date.

I could go on but after 3 years of waiting, this really isn't that great. I'm now downloading Daylite and Conactizer Pro to see if there is a better program out there--especially one that can work with other computers.  
(Version 10.0)

MIKE  Very slow on PowerBook G4 running 10.5.8. Apparently won’t import all data from previous version. Very disappointed. Paid for upgrade almost 2 1/2 years ago, and then get an unworkable product, not satisfactory. I did call and have received a promise to refund my money. Assuming that happens, it does resolve the issue. I have for many years used and will continue using the 5.3.2 version since it functions OK. Guess I’ll need to find something else for the future.  
(Version 10.0)

ANON BUD  I was a long time NUDC user back in the day. Am glad that after the extremely long wait Now X is out, but, as others have said—too little too late. I downloaded, installed, and tried to use, but it just wasn’t worth it and, IMHO, certainly not worth the asking price.

Sorry Now. It’s time for me to move on.  
(Version 10.0)

DENNYMOREJ  P.S. The "3" star review is not a reflection of the new Now X 10.0 software. So check the dates if you really want to get an accurate feel for the software offered, these reviews go back years way before this horrific mess was released.   
(Version 10.0)

TANKKNIGHT  I really liked NUDC, but just before Leopard came out I had gotten very tired of the instability/bugginess of NUDC that I finally decided to find another solution. I found that Contactizer Pro tested out pretty good. CP is not perfect, but I can at least rely on it and recommend it.

Now X is too little and too late.  
(Version 10.0)