Managing personal information can be tricky not knowing whether to risk keeping it online or saving it offline where it could easily be lost or stolen.

EssentialPIM Free is an award-winning and free personal information manager which can be used on desktop or a USB drive. EssentialPIM can securely schedule your day, manage your contacts, keep track of your To Do plans and organize your notes. This is quite a lot for one program to do and some aspects are better than others. For example, the contacts list is pretty comprehensive allowing you to add more or less anything.

However, the EssentialPIM organizer is much more limited and doesn't offer much scope for adding and removing events or customizing them in certain ways. At the same time, it does make integration between your contacts and organizer much more effective than simply relying on two separate apps.

If you need an easy way of organizing your life and keeping track of various other personal appointments and details in one app, EssentialPIM is a very useful app.

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Now that we can access the internet from almost anywhere and any device the difficulty is getting access to your information all at once. It can be store all online or you can keep everything synced up on all your devices.

EverNote is a application/service, still only accessible by invitation, which lets you capture, store and sync anything on multiple devices. EverNote works on any OS, whether PC, Mac or phone and can capture anything you throw at it, from notes, to images, media or passwords. All your information is stored in the program and you can use tags and notes to categorize it.

If you have EverNote installed on your devices, all it takes is having an internet connection and pressing the 'Synchronize' button from the menu, to ensure that you have the same information stored on all devices.

Although it's still a closed Beta, EverNote is a very promising application to capture, store and sync any sort of information on all your devices.

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Plaxo 2.0 helps you stay connected to the people most important to you. The Internet helps us keep in touch with more and more people, and it can be hard to keep up with friends, family, and business contacts between job changes, moves, and new phone numbers. With Plaxo 2.0, you can update your address book quickly and automatically, and keep it current without the hassle.

Plaxo 2.0 also connects you with your most vital information. Not only are you connected to your contacts, but also your calendar, your tasks, and your notes. Synchronize your home and work computers, and securely access that information anywhere through the Web. This online access is also a reliable backup, ensuring that you will never lose your data by accidentally deleting it or in a computer crash. Just one click and you're in sync. It's safe, and it's FREE.

Download Plaxo Outlook and Outlook Express 2.0 in Softonic

Chaos Manager is a little simple and compact organizer which features an appointment/to-do manager (appointments will pop-up), a calendar, a phone/address-book (contacts), a notebook which supports multiple topics, sync via internet, email forwarding of appointments, print/import/export and much more. All is password protected and encrypted (optional). You can also customize your own skin and background for the application so it won't be too dull to look at (ships with a number of skins).

Chaos Manager key features:

• Appointment manager, pops-up and plays a random wav-file when an appointment has reached it's deadline (optional)
• Contacts (address book/phone book and more)
• Notebook that supports multiple topics
• Notebook supports text formatting (rich text format) and URL detection (links will be highlighted and clickable)
• Calendar (for appointments & birthdays etc)
• Find... search appointments and contacts (all fields)
• Optional password protection
• Data encryption so no one can peak into the data files
• Simple look and feel and easy to use
• Optional reoccuring appointments
• Optional email forwarding of appointments
• Customize program layout (background, font, resizable etc)
• Skinable, supports alphablending and more (CM ships with 22 skins)
• Each appointment and contact can have an optional symbolic icon
• Contacts can be sorted by groups. You can add your own groups
• The contact list can be filtered by groups
• Contact field names are customizable
• Import/export/print option (can for example import from outlook)
• Import/export is based on .csv (appointments and contacts)
• Synchronize via internet option (example: synchronize your CM at work and at home)
• Optional minimize to system-tray
• No limits on number of appointments, contacts, notes, text field size etc
• Multi-monitor support

Download Chaos Manager 2.25 in Softonic

OrganizeME is essentially a program that aims to be all things to all people, allowing you to create a database of contacts where you can store all manner of information about your friends and family, a calendar for programming alarms and reminders and a tool for opening files automatically.

Although not particularly advanced, the built-in email client is useful for sending out information from within the application. It's particualrly great for jotting down your thoughts in the text editor then sharing them with others without having to wade through multiple programs. Handily, OrganizeME places itself in the System Tray, meaning it's always on hand whenever you have an important note to take down or if you quickly want to send an email. What's more, the easy-to-configure alarm is great for reminding you of tasks or appointments throught the day.

Download OrganizeME 1.1 in Softonic

Lantiv Timetabler is probably one of the most complete organizational tools you can find for your primary school, high school or any other type of education institution. The program saves all the necessary data (teachers, students, subjects, equipment, etc.) into a database and then uses it to elaborate timetables and detect any possible conflicts.

The application has so many options and displays so much information that the interface, despite its eye-catching design, sometimes seems too cluttered. You may also feel a bit confused with so much data!

Fortunately Lantiv Timetable includes interactive tutorials and a collection of tips to help you start using the program, as well as a sample school that gives you an idea about how it works.

Download Lantiv Timetabler 6.2.13 in Softonic

A good organization is one of the keys to success in your student life, be it at high school, university or postgraduate studies. This is why qOrganizer can be really useful for you.

This personal information manager features all the tools you need to organize your work, some of which have been especially developed for students. You can enter your class schedule, jot down assignments or track your marks, to name a few.

The program's simple interface makes it easy to use, although I missed having some more format options in the note editor. Also, the calendar tool didn't highlight days with assigned tasks in any way, something that would make tasks easier to track. On the upside, I was surprised to see that qOrganizer supports FTP synchronizing and can save your data to an SQL database.

qOrganizer helps students manage their classes and assigned papers in a more efficient way.

Download qOrganizer 3.1 in Softonic

Portable Sunbird allows you to carry your calendar and task list with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of Mozilla Sunbird designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of Sunbird, but there's nothing to install.

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ContactKeeper is a free personal information manager to store contact information about your friends, family, and colleges in one database file. You will never forget a birthday any more thanks to the integrated birthday reminder!

The pick of the bunch is the possibility to let ContactKeeper generate a birthday calender based on the dates of birth of the persons in the database!ContactKeeper is consciously very flexible, for example, only first name or last name is required, but not both, ContactKeeper is also consciously equipped with only a few basic fields, you can put extra information in the Note field.

You have also the freedom under wich format you want to save phone numbers of an address, for that reason the address is stored in one field only and the street name for example isn't seperated from the postal code and city name. ContactKeeper can be very usefull in case you lose your gsm with all the numbers of your friends for example, so you still have a back-up.

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Total Organizer is a Personal Information Manager software that allows you to store all of your contacts, notes, and to-do lists. What's unique about the app is that everything is organized into categories (or 'folders') as a hierarchical tree and each item (be it a note,task,contact etc) may belong to several folders. This is known as 'tagging' and what's more, these tags may be hierarchical, meaning that Total Organizer refers to them as 'folders' and not 'tags'.

Download Total Organizer 2.4 in Softonic

Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. The first thing that strikes you is that, it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter just about everything from their eye colour to their favourite food if you so choose. In fact, few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts but this is supposed to be a definitive kind of contacts book that you will refer to time and again although you get the feeling it's more like a police database at times. The program could have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface and a more simpler data fields for most people's needs.

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Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts Portable is portable version of Open Contacts which is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. Of course, if you're on the move a lot and making contacts all the time, then this version is much more suitable because it fits neatly on a Pendrive. The first thing that strikes with Open Contacts is that it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter more details although the portable version is more limited than the original which is no bad thing. Few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts as the original allows and so I'd rather use this version anyway. Although it's simpler to use as a result, the program could still have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface although the simpler data fields in this portable version are actually an improvement on the original.

Download Open Contacts Portable 5.1.1 in Softonic

My Gmail address book must be one of my most trusty contact lists that I have. I constantly refer to it because it's easy to use and intuitive.

However, it's also a pain to have to log into Gmail everytime I want to access a contact. iContact works by using Gmail/Google Apps contacts list as the central database for your contacts. You can still see and edit your contacts in Gmail but iContact allows you to have instant access to your contacts whenever you need them without logging into your Google/Gmail account - great for if you are travelling or don't have access to an internet connection. The program can also integrate with Microsoft Outlook to import your contacts directly from there and add them into Gmail. It also features integration with Skype and Google Maps and allows you to send contacts to your Satnav or TomTom device which is useful for contacting people on the move. iContact also doesn't care which machine or PC you are working on - you can access your contacts on all computers without the need to synchronize them.

This is not exactly a Web 2.0 app but it's about as close as you can come without actually being one and a much more convenient way to organise your contacts.

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Keeping track of friends and family names and addresses is always tricky and I've never come across an app that really integrates well with my online activities. As far as offline apps fgo however, LS Addressbook does a good job of organizing your contacts in a compact and simple agenda. It has fields for the name, telephone number, address, e-mail and notes, etc.

There are many more options than you'll find in an agenda of a modern mobile phone, but the interesting thing is the export options. It supports TXT formats and XLS so you can export the data for simple backups at anytime or for printing. You can also import data from MS Access if you use it for contacts.

Simple and comprehensive with some useful export options, this is a solid contacts organiser.

Download LS Addressbook 1.0.0 in Softonic

This unique phonebook program manages and keep track of all your contacts, adresses, phonenumbers, fax, e-mail addresses, info...! It's a very complete address book with many powerful functions and still very EASY TO USE! Has a autodial, security, inquiry, sort options, e-mail and web support, many print-options, print preview, Currency-calculator, calendar...

You can do mailmerge with MS-Word using your addresses stored in RGS-CardMaster! Export to Excel. This user friendly "phone book" has a low learning curve, but to call it just another "Phonebook" program would not do it right as it gives you the power of DBase but so much more easier that kids would manage it, and still, advanced options are there to please the power users! And yes, perhaps best of all, it's free!

Take a look at what this program features:

• Easy to use and a very low learning curve
• Visually pleasing User Interface
• Unlimmited number of cards and databases
• Easy browsing and locating contacts
• Sort a database on each available item, name, city, country, mail etc.
• E-Mail field which allows to mail them with your default mailer with one click
• Store websites and visit them
• Attached Info-field on each card
• Print This Card Option in complete WYSIWYG!
• Copy a Card to the clipboard or duplicate a card
• Powerful Find-option

Download RGS-CardMaster 5.0.1 in Softonic

Manage and use your contact information in a powerful yet simple way. Contact features plenty of features and great technology that allows you to get the most out of your address book.

Bringing true innovation to the world of contact management, Contact allows you to effectively and easily start creating and managing your friends, family and business contacts. Contact packs a punch to when it comes to using your data effectively, with actions built straight into the user interface that allow you to quickly perform common tasks, like sending emails and writing letters to a contact.

One of the many features that makes Contact truly understandable and easy to use is its perfectly crafted user interface. With smooth icons and a mindful layout everything is always exactly where you would expect it to be. Free from clutter and super responsive Contact provides an all round refined user experience.

Many contact managers allow you to enter a whole plethra of information, which is great if you are a high flying business person with lots of data that you need on the go. But Contact offers all the information an everyday person would require, from multiple email addresses to nicknames. Everything you would expect and need in a contact manager is in Contact and theres none of the bloat.

Contact features a simple search system integrated right into the main application user interface. Just simply type something about the contact you wish to find, it doesn't matter what either, whether it be their name, address, telephone number, email or anything that Contact can store you will return results in a flash. Contact Smart Searching searches any string whether it be part of a name or a full name and is guranteed to find relevant results.

Share a computer with your family or at work? Not a problem for Contact if you are worried about the security of your data, just activate a high level encryption onto your contact database in a single click.

With a powerful Sync Manager built directly into the application you can share you data in seconds. Whether you want to share your contact information across 2 computers on a network or on computers anywhere in the world* you can do now in seconds flat**.

Exporting your data is also just as simple as doing anything else in Contact, simply press the export button and chose your file type and your away. You can share data in industry standard formats so for those who still aren't using Contact 1.5 can still get that all important info. Supported file types include plain text (.txt), vCard (.vcf), Isaac Database (.idb) and Comma Seperated Values (.csv).

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A simple Personal Information Manager (PIM) that allows you to store your sensitive private information (ideas, passwords, credit card numbers, website logins, etc.) in a very strong encrypted database. The same database file can be used both in desktop and PocketPC version.

Download Secure Notes 3.1 in Softonic

StudyMinder is an advanced planner for Windows XP designed just for students. Use it to organize and track assignments, reports, projects and tests. StudyMinder is simple to learn and use. helps students improve their grades by solving the most common problems students face:

• Forgotten assignments
• Homework notes scattered everywhere
• No overview of when assignments are due
• Difficulty estimating study time so everything gets done
• Waiting to start big projects until the night before they are due

Download StudyMinder Lite 1.6 in Softonic

Exstora is a program which will help you take notes and keep the information ordered. Exstora is a notes manager and daily planner software.

Here is a brief list of the program’s features:

• Opening the editor window of notes manager within "two mouse clicks"
• Friendly navigation and flexible administration of stored notes and events
• Password-protecting one or several categories with records
• Built-in daily planner to remind you of scheduled events
• Long-term scheduling feature, checking the time remaining until completion of the scheduled task on the daily basis

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Printable Notebook lets you organize and print your personal data in the same manner a paper notebook does. You can print 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 examples XML print templates, that will fit a standard notebook size.

The template can be edited by hand to fit other sizes as well or to change the page design. The program supports http and email fields, different tab layouts, search across notebooks and more. You can set number of records per page. As result when you add or delete some records, the records placed at other pages do NOT shift. Only one page gets changed, other pages stay unchanged. You can print the canged page and replace it in your paper addressbook.

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