Backpack is PC Magazine's Site of the Week! The review calls the app easy-to-use, straightforward, intuitive, and versatile (the keywords we're going for!) and says, "It's like having an online loose-leaf notebook to use as you please."
Backpack is an incredibly easy-to-use Web-based organizational service. This deceptively bare-bones-looking app provides straightforward functionality you can use to organize a wildly varying array of projects.Straightforward, intuitive, and versatile. Easy to set up and use e-mail/SMS reminders. Premium members can share and download calendars online. Easy to share your page and make it public. Easy to update your page via e-mail and allow others to do the same. Writeboards provide hassle-free online collaboration on text documents.
Nonpaying members get only five pages to work with and no calendar. You can find similar organizational calendars for free from other services.
Backpack is a Web-based service designed to organize every aspect of your life. The site combines the ease of use that I loved in Cozi with the versatility and sophistication most users demand from a full-fledged personal information manager (PIM). The genius of Backpack is that it's so basic. It's like having an online loose-leaf notebook to use as you please.
The full review goes into a lot more detail and concludes, "With enough imagination you can use Backpack to organize pretty much anything."
To brainstorm my weekend, I hopped over to my Backpack page and set up notes with links to event listings and possible venues I wanted to visit, along with reminders to make reservations. Backpack provided me with an easy way to keep my plans in order, and I set it all up in a couple of minutes, editing and formatting the page as I saw fit. Backpack includes a ton of sample pages showing off the site's capabilities on its example page. With these simple tools and a little knowledge about HTML, you can arrange for your Backpack pages to organize pretty much anything: book collections, social gatherings, medical records, travel plans, school itineraries, garage sales, craft projects, and so on.
There's also an accompanying slideshow too.
