Info Management

taskTome is a personal planner and to-do list that enables you to manage upcoming events and ongoing tasks. It includes a calendar view that allows you to add one-time or recurring events, as well as task manager to keep track of your to-do list items and/or projects you are working on. The task manager lets you assign priority status and custom categories along with a detailed task description and optional subtasks. taskTome also includes a notes organizer and a simple financial planner that allows you to track daily account balances. Other features include task printing, export to CSV and PDF, spell checking, rich text editing, integrated backup and more.

Efficient Address Book Free is a personal contacts manager that enables you to organize your personal and business contacts. In addition to standard address and contact information, you can store detailed personal information, birthday and anniversary data as well as a photo. Other features include a search function, import/export, optional password protection and integrated backup. A Pro version with additional features is available for purchase.

Efficient To-Do List Free is a personal task manager that enables you to create and maintain a to-do list of things you need to get done. You can set priority and completion status for each task, choose to be alerted before a task becomes due, and sort the list by task status and due date. Other features include import and export options, integrated backup and optional password protection. The free version comes with rather basic features, an optional Pro version is available for those who need more functionality.

Printable Notebook lets you organize and print your personal data in the same manner a paper notebook does. You can print (and cut) selected pages so that they fit into your paper notebook. The program allows you to create multiple notebooks with custom fields for each. It includes several sample print templates, that will fit a standard notebook size. The templates are XML based and can be edited by experienced users to accommodate other formats. Printable Notebook supports website links and email fields, different tab layouts, search across notebooks and more.

Efficient Diary is an easy to use personal diary that comes with all the features you need to maintain a daily diary of events or ideas. It offers a modern interface and full support for rich text editing as well as emoticons, tables, links, images and attachments. Your entries are automatically categorizes by date and can be viewed in a table or card view. The content of the diary is stored encrypted and password protected so that your personal thoughts are secure from unauthorized viewing. Other features include a customizable interface, export to RTF or text format, content groups and more.

MapleXP enables you to keep track of how much time you spend, working various projects. It allows you to maintain multiple projects and divide each project into a hierarchy of tasks and actions in reference to those tasks. The program includes a simple start/stop time that can keep track of your time, and you can generate a report for all your projects.

RGS-CardMaster is a personal phone book and contacts manager that helps you keep track of all your addresses, phone numbers, fax, e-mail addresses and other contact information. It can interact with your phone dialer, fax software and email program and also print contact lists and address sheets. Other features include a detailed search option, export to CSV and MS Word mail merge document, integrated calendar, calculator and optional password protection.

ContactKeeper is a simple information manager to store names, addresses, emails and additional information for your friends, family or other contacts. The interface is straightforward and easy to use, and provides fields for the name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, as well as a notes field that can be used for all other information that you want to associate with the contact. The program also provides a detailed search feature, as well as a built-in birthday calendar with reminder option, that can alert you of upcoming birthdays in advance. ContactKeeper allows you to print contact information but lacks import and export functionalities.

AMP Calendar is small utility, that simply displays a 12 month calendar for the current (or selected) year. It runs in the system tray, and displays the current date in the tray icon. You can optionally choose to display week numbers, and also calculate the difference between two selected days. This is read-only calendar, you cannot add any entries and it does not support any holidays.

EssentialPIM is a U3-compliant appointment and information manager that allows you to organize your daily, weekly or monthly schedule. It can be installed directly to your USB drive. Features include an address book to manage your contacts, a tree-style notes manager with support for rich text notes, a To-Do list and Contacts. The address book supports pictures and lets you add/remove fields to customize it for your needs. The schedule provides a convenient way to mark your appointments in different colors, and allows you to simply drag an appointment to reschedule it. The program supports single and recurring events, priority settings, color coded categories, and reminder alerts. It can import data from Outlook, iCal, CSV and vCard formats, and supports password protection with strong encryption.

EssentialPIM is a visual appointment and information manager that allows you to organize your daily, weekly or monthly schedule. It includes an address book to manage your contacts, as well as tree-style notes manager with support for rich text notes. The address book supports pictures and lets you add/remove fields to customize it for your needs. The schedule provides a very convenient way to mark your appointments in different colors, and allows you to simply drag an appointment to reschedule it. EssentialPIM supports single and recurring events, priority settings, color coded categories, completion indicator and reminder alerts. In addition it can export to HTML, RTF and other formats, and supports password protection with strong encryption. A very nice and easy to use PIM, we quite surprised to find that is is free.

Total Organizer is a Personal Information Manager that allows you to manage your appointments, tasks, To-Do list items and contacts. It organizes your data into a tree-like structure with virtual folders for each category. You can assign multiple categories to any item and filter your view by category, subcategories, or view all items on the agenda. Each task can optionally be associated with an alarm reminder and a priority status, as well as keyword for quick searching. Total Organizer provides daily and weekly agenda views, as well as separate views for notes, To-Do items and contacts.

Sunbird enables you to easily manage your schedule, appointments and tasks. It uses the iCalendar format to store your data on the local computer or a network, and can export it to HTML or CSV, and also publish it to the web for sharing. You can easily change and reschedule appointments by simply dragging them from one day to another, or adjust the duration by resizing the marked entry. Sunbird supports multiple levels of color coded calendars that can be displayed within the same interface, allowing you to view your work and personal calendars separately or overlapped. Other features include task management and reminder alerts, recurring events, event categories, customizable calendar views, password protection, add-ons and more. International holiday schedules can downloaded from the site. Open Source.

Bitlets is a simple organizer to manage text snippets. It can store any type of text entry and optionally monitor the clipboard and keep track of your recently copied text snippets. The text can be printed, saved to a text file, send by email or stored encrypted using RC4. The program also provides a simple keyword search function.

Kurlo is a portable contact manager that can be installed on your PC or a USB drive or other portable device. It provides an easy-to-use interface and a surprising range of features that extend the functionality beyond that of a simple address book. In addition to detailed contacts record and personal categories, it can notify you of birthdays, anniversaries and other events, and even includes emailing features to send messages to selected contacts or mailing lists. Kurlo can also help you print address labels and envelopes, using selected contacts from your database. Other features include advanced search, import/export, data backup and more.

FreeMind is an open source mind mapping software that enables you to visualize ideas, projects, concepts, brainstorming, internet research or any other task that can benefit from a structured overview. You can create nodes with child and sibling nodes and add icons, clouds, notes and custom formatting for better presentation. The nodes can be expanded or collapsed, or interactively linked to local files, other maps, online resources and more. You can also insert encrypted nodes or create encrypted maps for sesitive projects. The finished maps can be exported to HTML, clickable XHTML, Open Office document, image file and other formats.

Diary Dominator is a personal diary program that allows you to add daily notes along with indicators for your mood, health and current weather conditions. You can style your daily entry by using common word processor options (font, color, bold etc) and also insert images or objects, set a background color and more. Diary Dominator offers optional password protection and encryption (Blowfish) to keep your diary entries private. Other features include export to RTF, print options, wallpaper changer and system tray support.

TreePad is an intuitive and powerful personal database program, PIM and personal data search engine. It allows you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into a single file. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier! TreePad can be run directly from a USB stick, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. Alternatively, you can use the very fast internal search engine to instantly find any item you need!

This application will help leaders of online gaming groups keep track of their respective member information. It will hold information such as: contact info (e-mail, ICQ), available times for play, time zone, miscellaneous notes. ClanWatch will not only hold this information, but help with scheduling practices, matches, and communicate this information to members and produce reports..

NetPicker enables you to save snippets of web information by simply dragging them from your browser into a floating drop target icon. It maintains the original HTML formatting, including images, tables, font styles etc. The snippets can be organized in a customizable category tree, and also edited, using the built-in WYSIWYG or source editor. Additional features include export to HTML pages and an option to set snippets as Active Desktop item.

Personal Affiliate Manager (PAM) allows you to organize, manage and create reports for all of your personal affiliate programs. It lets you store relevant information like login URLs, username, password etc, as well as payment structure, commission rates and more. You can also keep track of your payouts and then create monthly or annual reports, showing your total profit for each program. PAM comes pre-configured for various popular affiliate program, makig it easy to get started.

Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, that offers a combination of simple and tree-type notes, rich text editor, ability to mix notes of different types in a single file and optional secure encryption using the Blowfish or Idea algorithms. It can be used as a simple scratchpad for quick notes and ideas, or as a personal contacts organizer, bookmark manager, project manager, password storage and much more. Advanced users can also take advantage of macros and plugins. You can customize the appearance of your entries, add icons and more.

ClickTray Calendar is a multi-functional calendar, address, and reminder program that runs in the system tray. It enables you to create notes, enter repetitive tasks, maintain To Do lists, and to set personal (recurring) alarms. The interface offers fiscal week or month display, yearly overview, moon phases display and more. Additional features include date calculation, calendar printing, address book and more. ClickTray Calendar offers a good set of features, but comes with a rather primitive interface, and you`ll have to add holidays manually.

PhoneDeck is a personal address and phone organizer. It offers incremental search, full search, shortcut links, alphabet index and categories with custom icons to organize your contacts. Also supported are email and web links, quick access to favorite email contacts, direct phone dialing and more. In addition, you can create internal shortcuts to link one contact with another. PhoneDeck includes an import/export wizard that allows you to import from .csv and export to text, .CSV and HTML.