List of personal information managers
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Open source applications
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| Chandler Chandler (PIM) Chandler is a personal information management software suite described by its developers as a "Note-to-Self Organizer" designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring. It is free software, previously released under the GNU General Public License, and now released under the... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Apache License Apache License The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer.... |
Free form approach based on Lotus Agenda Lotus Agenda Agenda is a DOS-based personal information manager, designed by Mitch Kapor, Ed Belove and Jerry Kaplan, and marketed by Lotus Software.Lotus Agenda is a "free-form" information manager: the information need not be structured at all before it is entered into the database... |
| Evolution | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... , GNOME GNOME GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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MIT License MIT License The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software provided all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms... |
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| OpenIRIS OpenIRIS OpenIRIS is the open source version of IRIS, a Semantic Desktop that enables users to create a “personal map” across their office-related information objects.- Overview :... |
Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... |
Java-based Semantic Desktop Semantic desktop In computer science, the Semantic Desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computer's user interface and data handling capabilities so that data is more easily shared between different applications or tasks and so that data that once could not be automatically processed by a... wrapper around Mozilla Suite, Open Office Glow, etc. |
| org-mode Org-mode Org-mode is an editing mode in the text editor Emacs which supports the editing of plain text hierarchical documents. It has specific support for a number of different use cases, such as writing to-do lists, project planning, and writing web pages... |
Cross-platform | GPL | Integrates with Emacs BBDB for contact management support, web browsers for hyperlink storing support. Free iPhone app available (MobileOrg) |
| Kontact Kontact KMail supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, IMAP IDLE, dIMAP, POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Mozilla Calendar Project Mozilla Calendar Project The Mozilla Calendar Project is the name for the Mozilla project that led to the development of Sunbird calendar application and the Lightning integrated calendar... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , OpenSolaris OpenSolaris OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software... , Solaris, Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , OS/2 OS/2 OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal... |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... /MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... |
Mozilla Thunderbird remake |
| ical Ical (Unix) ical is an old but popular calendar package written in Tcl/tk by Sanjay Ghemawat for Unix systems. ical is known for its simple, intuitive interface. It's also easy for Tcl/tk programmers to extend ical with custom functionality... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
System default
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| Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
GNOME GNOME GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software... |
GPL | |
| iCal ICal iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application for Mac OS X to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server.... |
Mac OS | proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Kontact Kontact KMail supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, IMAP IDLE, dIMAP, POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail... |
KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
GPL | Included in KDE4. Also available for Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... (technology preview) and Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
| Windows Calendar Windows Calendar Windows Calendar is a calendar application that is included with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It natively supports the iCalendar file format, and has the ability to publish and subscribe to web-based calendars by using HTTP and WebDAV... |
Microsoft Windows | proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Windows Contacts Windows Contacts Windows Contacts is a contact manager which is included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 which replaced and retained most of the functionality of Windows Address Book. Windows Mail integrates with it. Windows Contacts uses a new XML-based schema format where each contact appears as an... |
Microsoft Windows | proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
Freeware applications
| PIM application | Platform(s) | Notes |
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| Ecco Pro Ecco Pro Ecco Pro is personal information manager software based on an outliner, and supporting folders similar to spreadsheet columns that allow filtering and sorting of information based upon user defined criteria.... |
Microsoft Windows | organizes information via full power outline and tag assignments. (Tags can contain text, numeric, or date data. Date data automatically mapped to calendar.) |
| EssentialPIM Free | Microsoft Windows | All your appointments, tasks, notes, contacts, password entries and email messages are stored in a graphical user interface and easily accessible form |
| Google Calendar Google Calendar Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009... |
Web application | |
| Palm Desktop Palm Desktop Palm Desktop is a personal information manager computer program for Microsoft Windows or Mac OS/Mac OS X and can be used alone or in combination with a Palm OS personal digital assistant.-Features:... |
Mac OS, Microsoft Windows | |
| Planz Planz Planz is an open source personal information manager developed by the Keeping Found Things Found group at the University of Washington Information School. It integrates e-mail, website links and content, computer files and folders, and informal notes into a simplified, document-like interface... |
Windows XP, Vista, 7 | Provides a single, integrative document-like view of personal information as an overlay to the user's file system. |
| Remember The Milk Remember The Milk Remember the Milk is an application service provider for web-based task- and time-management. It allows users to manage tasks from computer as well as offline. It is being developed by an Australian/international team.- Features :... |
Web application | |
| TreePad Lite | Linux and Windows | Dual pane (tree/article) free-form personal information manager. |
| Yahoo! Calendar Yahoo! Calendar Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds and events syndicated from sites that make use of the published Yahoo! calendar programming interfaces. While users are not required to have a Yahoo! Mail account, they are required to have a free Yahoo! ID in... |
Web application | |
| Windows Live Calendar Windows Live Calendar Windows Live Hotmail Calendar is a time-management web application by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live services. It is integrated into Windows Live Hotmail, the way that MSN Calendar was integrated into the MSN Hotmail service... |
Web application | Has a freeware offline client (Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... ) for Microsoft Windows only |
Non-free applications
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| 3D Topicscape 3D Topicscape 3D Topicscape, a software application, is a Personal Information Manager that provides a template loosely based on mind-mapping or concept mapping. It presents the mind map as a 3D scene where each node is a cone . It can also display in a 2D format... |
Microsoft Windows | organizes information into 3D landscapes |
| Backpack | Web application | Todo list and calendar |
| Contactizer Contactizer Contactizer Pro is a contact manager, task manager, event manager, communication manager and project manager developed exclusively for Mac OS X, in Cocoa.... |
Mac OS X | previously known as "OD4Contact" |
| Daisho | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Calendar, Contacts, Projects, Email |
| DEVONthink DEVONthink DEVONthink is a Mac OS X program for intelligent document management and associative search. It is developed by the company DEVONtechnologies located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA.... |
Mac OS X | |
| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
Microsoft Windows | Email, Calendar, Contacts, IM, lot of imports, mobile devices synchronization, skype integration, full synchronization with Gmail |
| Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
Mac OS | |
| EssentialPIM Pro | Microsoft Windows | All your appointments, tasks, notes, contacts, password entries and email messages are stored in a graphical user interface and easily accessible form |
| EverNote EverNote Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments... |
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | |
| FileMaker FileMaker FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc., formerly Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms... |
Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | |
| Franklin Planner Franklin Planner The Franklin Planner is a paper-based time management system created by Hyrum W. Smith. It is marketed by the FranklinCovey company, and promoted by Stephen Covey. Physically it consists of a ring binder holding specially designed loose leaf pages... family |
Microsoft Windows | Modeled on Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat... 's writings; includes earlier "Ascend" and current "PlanPlus" products |
| Lotus Notes | Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows | |
| Lotus Organizer | Microsoft Windows | |
| Meeting Maker Meeting Maker Meeting Maker is a cross-platform personal calendar and group scheduling software application from PeopleCube. The product dates back to 1990, when it was originally Mac-only software created by Callisto Corporation and published by ON Technology. It was released for Microsoft Windows as Meeting... |
Linux, Mac OS, Solaris | |
| Microsoft Office Outlook Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite... |
Microsoft Windows | |
| mobile PhoneTools Mobile PhoneTools mobile PhoneTools is a program written by the French-based company Avanquest Software . The program allows users of Motorola and other brands of cellular phones to connect their cellular phones to their personal computer.... |
Microsoft Windows | |
| MyInfo MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications.... |
Microsoft Windows | Free form personal information manager |
| NoteScribe NoteScribe NoteScribe is a Microsoft Windows based hierarchal organization notetaking software designed for school, business, and at home. Developed for students and business people, NoteScribe, a digital organizational tool, is a way to categorize and archive information; notes , pictures, graphics, photos... |
Microsoft Windows | Create and store notes in a hierarchical category tree, organize information |
| Novell GroupWise Novell GroupWise GroupWise is a messaging and collaborative software platform from Novell that supports email, calendaring, personal information management, instant messaging, and document management. The platform consists of the client software, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and the server... |
Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Web application | |
| Now Up-to-Date & Contact | Mac OS, Microsoft Windows | |
| OneNote | Microsoft Windows | |
| Personal Knowbase Personal Knowbase Personal Knowbase is a freeform notes database application for MS Windows. Personal Knowbase was first released in 1998 on the CompuServe Information Service and is an example of a personal knowledge base.... |
Microsoft Windows | Freeform note-taking organizer. Portable. |
| Plaxo Plaxo Plaxo is an online address book and social networking service originally founded by Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring... |
Web application | |
| PrimaSoft Organizer Deluxe/Pro | Microsoft Windows | |
| Things Things (application) Things is a personal task management application for Mac OS X made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart, Germany. Its 1.0 release was on January 6, 2009... |
Mac OS | Task management and scheduling |
| Tinderbox Tinderbox (application software) Tinderbox is a personal content management system developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Eastgate Systems. MacWorld described it as " a remarkable tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data."... |
Mac OS | |
| TreePad | Linux, Microsoft Windows. | Portable. Freeware, non-freeware and multi-user editions. |
| Wrike Wrike Wrike is an online tool and application service provider for project management and collaboration developed by Wrike Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and launched its first release to a public beta in 2007.- History :... |
Web application | |
| Yojimbo Yojimbo (software) Yojimbo is a personal information manager for Mac OS X by Bare Bones Software. It can store notes, images/media, URLs, web pages. Yojimbo can also encrypt any of its contents and store the password in the Keychain. It is Bare Bones' second Cocoa application. Super Get Info was the first.... |
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| Zoot | Windows |
Discontinued applications
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| Google Notebook Google Notebook Google Notebook is a free online application offered by Google that allows users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The browser-based tool permits a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser session. The... |
Web application | ||
| Hula Hula (software) Hula was an open source mail and calendar project based on open standards announced on February 15, 2005 by Novell.- History :Hula was an open-source effort sponsored by Novell and developed by Dave Camp and Joe Gasiorek, amongst others.... |
Linux | FOSS-GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
Replaced by Bongo project |
| Lotus Agenda Lotus Agenda Agenda is a DOS-based personal information manager, designed by Mitch Kapor, Ed Belove and Jerry Kaplan, and marketed by Lotus Software.Lotus Agenda is a "free-form" information manager: the information need not be structured at all before it is entered into the database... |
DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... |
Freeware Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... |
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| SideKick SideKick SideKick was an early Personal Information Manager software application by Borland launched in 1983 under Philippe Kahn's leadership. It was notable for being a Terminate and Stay Resident program, which enabled it to load into memory then return the computer to the DOS command prompt, allowing... |
DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... , Microsoft Windows |
Commercial | 1983–1999 |
| GoBinder GoBinder GoBinder was a Windows based mobile content organizer for students. It is similar to PlanPlus for Windows, EverNote and Microsoft OneNote. GoBinder allows users to import Web clippings, Microsoft Office documents , and handwritten notes into a single electronic notebook... |
Microsoft Windows |
See also
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- List of applications with iCalendar support