FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has turned it into a high productivity tool.

So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don't you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila. Do you want to refactor your essays in a similar way you would refactor software? Or do you want to keep personal knowledge base, which is easy to manage? Why don't you try FreeMind? Do you want to prioritize, know where you are, where you've been and where you are heading, as Stephen Covey would advise you? Have you tried FreeMind to keep track of all the things that are needed for that?

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TK8 EasyNote is a freeware program to put notes on your desktop. You do not need to waste your money buying old paper-stickies any more. Packed with useful features, TK8 post it notes is a far better solution than normal 'stickies' on your monitor. TK8 desktop post-it notes are very easy to use and they have features the real 'stickies' have not. For example you can hide the notes temporarily when you need the full desktop area and show them again when you need them.

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I must admit it: unless somebody is constantly on me, reminding me all the upcoming important events and tasks, I tend to forget my term paper's due date, the doctor's appointment date or even my mom's birthday. So if you're anything like me, you're going to like Note Mania.

This easy note application is more than just a digital post-it pad to jot things down. It's a complete personal information manager where you can store all the important dates, events, tasks and other data you can't miss. As the program supports note scheduling, you can use set reminders for yourself and also mark certain notes as recurrent events, turning Note Mania into a comprehensive calendar tool to schedule both your personal and professional lives. Notes are displayed as individual floating windows, listed on the program's main interface and also arranged on Note Mania's embedded calendar.

Besides its handy functionality, another outstanding feature in Note Mania is its support for customization. Notes can be personalized in many ways: paper color, text color, font face, size and event transparency level. Also, these settings can be applied globally or to each individual note. The program's calendar, however, uses your Windows wallpaper as background decoration and cannot be customized in any way.

With Note Mania you'll organize your tasks in a more productive way won't lose track of any important date or event in your life again.

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PIMOne is designed to help you keep track of everything you do. It records secure personal information through a stylish interface and contains full support for plans, agents, tasks/todo lists, contacts lists, private passwords, memos, and holidays.

The information can be password protected and customized in design. PIMOne offers different skins to suit your taste. The program also comes with some built-in reminders, including plan events reminder, task reminder, birthday reminder, interval reminder and holidays reminder, they allow you to easily be reminded when important events comes.

Main highlights of the package:

Multiple information

PIMOne can manage various information related to your personal details. As a full PIM software, it includes a plan/appointment reminder, actions, contacts, passwords, memos, interval reminder and a holidays reminder.

Secret information

The program stores any information based on your account securely. Before using it, you must create an account for yourself. The account is protected by the password you specified. All your privacy will never be accessed by others.

Creative agent

PIMOne provides a tool named Agent, which allows you to perform scheduled actions at a specified time. E.g. sending emails, send MSN Messenger messages, shut down or reboot the computer, etc. at a specified time.

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Post-it notes are a great way to remember everything you have to do, but being in the Internet era you should take a step forward and start using virtual sticky notes. They're faster, cheaper and of course, more environmental friendly.

Shock Stickers is probably one of the best options available in virtual post-it notes. After installing it, the program sits unobtrusively on the system tray and allows you to access all its main functions via its icon.

Shock Stickers has an impressive array of features: a dozen colors for notes, support for transparency, ability to lock notes, hide them or send them by email, full text formatting, alarm for notes, password protection and even a recycler manager to recover deleted notes.

It's hard to think of any cons about Shock Stickers. I didn't like being asked for confirmation every time I wanted to delete a note, but then I realized I could turn that off in Settings.

Use these great virtual post-it notes to remember everything and save trees!

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Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology. A lot of our mental energy is directed towards trying to remember and manage all the things that we want or need to do. Thinking Rock will allow you to clear your mind so that you can become more proactive and concentrate on what is important to you.

Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities. Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organised with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.

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Corel WordPerfect Lightning is a new kind of free word processing and note-taking software from Corel that fills a gap between today's existing desktop and Web-based productivity tools.

Corel WordPerfect Lightning provides a simple set of tools that make it fast and easy to perform your most common productivity tasks. WordPerfect Lightning makes it easier than ever before to capture, use and reuse the ideas, information and images that are important to you.

Use it to capture your notes, read documents, easily collect information and images, and create, edit and collaborate on a wide variety of document types. You can even use WordPerfect Lightning as a fast and simple organizer for all your ideas and documents. It's like a word processor, notebook, whiteboard and filing cabinet wrapped into one.

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hott notes 3 is a sticky notes reminder program for the Windows desktop. It is completely free. No ads. No spy-ware. Not only can you post sticky note reminders, you can make checklists, set alarms, draw on your notes, and archive.

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EssentialPIM Portable (both Free and Pro) is U3 compliant and works straight from your removable media, whether it's a USB flash drive, compact flash card, or even a good old floppy.

Benefits:

• Plug and run EPIM. All your settings are stored on the removable media
• All your data is saved in one single *.epim file, which can be stored on the same removable medium
• All data is strongly encrypted. The portable edition uses industry standard Rijndael, 128 bit key (same as the desktop edition)
• No traces are left whatsoever on the system you are using
• Directories for backup and temp files can be setup on your home computer

Technical differences from the desktop version:

• All settings are stored only on the removable drive
• *.ini and *.epim files are stored in the Portable EPIM'S program folder by default
• Optional autorun of Portable EPIM can be selected when the removable media is inserted
• Automatic association/dissociation with Portable EPIM's *.epim files on any PC
• Creating shortcuts to Portable EPIM from within the program on any PC

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Crawler Notes is a useful post-it notepad that reminds you of any important event, meeting or task without wasting real paper or having post-it notes cluttering your desk.

The program is best utilized when used with the online notes available at Crawler.com and Crawler Email. Doing this means that you can access your notes wherever you go - just simply upload your notes to your webmail and then download it to another computer with Crawler Toolbar installed. Crawler Notes also operates very discreetly as you can can make it invisible by toggling it's appearance with a hotkey which you can define in the settings tab. To create a note, you can also define a hotkey which allows to write a note or you can also paste data directly from the Clipboard into the newly created note. Each note can be customized individual with different colours and parameters. I also liked the fact that you can search by keyword for notes you have made as it's easy to lose track once you've made several notes. However, I couldn't find any way of instructing the program to alert me when an appointment or meeting is due although in fairness, it's not supposed to be a personal organiser like Outlook.

A handy little tool which will help you stay organised whilst also save the environment a little..

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Are you familiar with GTD (Getting Things Done)? It's a task management system that is supposed to help you be more productive and handle tasks and projects, both long term and short term.

EasyTask Manager is an application which supports GTD. You start by creating your different projects, then filling these with actions. You'll have to process your actions by putting them into the correct category. EasyTask Manager respects GTD terminology, so you'll find the traditional inbox, next actions, next days and someday folders, among others.

Once an action is finished, make sure to mark it as completed. EasyTask also allows you to sync your projects regularly. You'll have to enter an importance level, start and due date and ensure your tasks are in the correct context.

The interface offers a clear and detailed view of all your actions and projects. However I felt the buttons could be a little bigger and the whole interface a little more flexible to work with.

Still, if you're a big fan of the GTD method, you should find EasyTask Manager to be a good productivity tool.

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Easy To-Do Lite is a Task Manager for easy handling, which includes the functions necessary to record, organize and plan all your tasks.

Basically the program allows you to create new tasks identifying common fields, titles, descriptions, priority task types, grades, sources, resource requirements, start dates, end dates and delivery or project completion time. In addition, the program allows you to schedule messages and link them to all kinds of files such as images, text documents or web pages, The program is highly customisable allowing you to create your own filters or categories, launch search tasks, organize tasks by fields, customize functions listed in the toolbar and other possibilities such as changing fonts or changing the working environment. Note that some options are only available in the professional version which requires an upgrade to use.

When it comes to organising, you need a tool which makes life easier not harder and Easy To-Do Lite does exactly that.

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Are you forever forgetting appointments, birthdays, things to do, to walk the dog, your dentists appointments, exams, etc.?

Well, you'll know that using post-it notes is often a very disorganized affair - they get torn, lost and, before long, your desk looks like a sea of yellow sticky paper. PNotes basically allows you to write virtual post-it notes on your desktop rather than plastering them around your working environment.

PNotes is a beautifully designed and presented program which gives you an authentic sticky note feel. PNotes not only act as a visual reminder but can also be set to alert you when an appointment is near, at a time you configure.

Another really useful feature of PNotes is the ability to join groups by choice, which allows you to create, modify, delete and relocate groups by simple clicking or dragging-and-drop. You can change the group for each note written simply by dragging it to the group of your choice. Whatsmore, you can even customise the look with some pretty cool skins and even create your own with PNSkinCreator (although this has to be installed separately) so sticky yellow post it notes will never look the same again.

PNotes has recently been updated to add a much needed search and replace tool which helps you find those notes that have expired or you'd like to change using keywords. You can set the notes to appear randomly in a different colors each time you post them and you can also select whether you want your most recently created post it note to appear on top or not.

PNotes is a clever and highly useful program that will have sticky note fans reaching for their wastepaper bin and converting to this far more organized method instead.

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ListPro is an information manager for your PDA and desktop or notebook PC that offers the best, easiest way to get and stay organized.

Create shopping lists, todo lists, checklists, etc. Organize and use your information however you like it, ListPro makes it easy and convenient. Synchronize your lists between your PDA and desktop PC, and use them on both.

This is what ListPro has to offer:

• Configurable alarms
• Indenting and outlining
• Item highlighting
• Any-size notes for each item
• Any columns you want
• Shopping list functions
• Over 300 free, pre-built lists

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Tudumo is an excellent tool to organize all sorts of tasks, from business meetings in your company to final papers for your university courses. It's similar to other task agendas, in the sense that it displays the task list on the main interface and uses icons to distinguish them. However, it has some unique features that make it a great app to optimize time management and improve productivity.

Among these special features, you'll find the possibility to organize tasks by tags instead of typical categories such as "Personal", "Work" or "Urgent". With tags, you can create as many categories as you want and then search through your pending tasks much more easily.

Notes (referred as "Actions" in Tudumo) can have a brief description, plus starting and ending dates. The program also enables you to divide the list with headings to make it clearer. It's a bit tricky to learn, but fortunately there are some sample notes that work as a tutorial on how to create and edit notes. Tudumo can also print your task list on paper and supports some basic customization.

Apparently the program will be free while it's in beta, so you'd better hurry up to grab your copy now!

Organize all your tasks with Tudumo and make the most of your time

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Conceptual maps or mindmaps are a great way to organize ideas and improve workflow when you're involved in a complex task or a team project.

With Cayra you can now create those concept maps in a very clear, well-structured way. Unlike other expensive mindmapping utilities, Cayra is an open-source tool that won't cost you a cent: on the downside, this means that it's not as complete as other similar apps. Nevertheless, the program includes all the tools and functions you need to create conceptual maps with nodes, links and categories, all with different colors and very attractive animation effects.

Maps can be saved in the program's proprietary format, which you can then open and browse with Cayra itself, or as images (JPG and BMP) which you can open with any third-party image viewer.

In spite of being a little basic when compared to other more complete mindmapping tools, Cayra is still a great tool to create your own conceptual maps and improve your work organization and productivity.

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This program was created to help in organization of daily work with such features as ToDo/Reminders and sticky notes service along with address book and LAN messenger. With WireNote, you can quickly create Sticky Notes and ToDos from the tray icon, the main window, or a hotkey. You can prioritize ToDos, and log and analyze the time spent on each with the ToDo report feature.

You can schedule Reminders to play sounds, display Notes or ToDos, send messages to other users, start programs, or even shut down your computer. If WireNote is installed on more than one computer on a LAN, you can send Reminders to other users or store them in a shared folder making them visible to all users.

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If you´re the type of person who always winds up in the dog house for forgeting birthdays, anniversaries or wedding days, then this application could ease your troubles. BirthdayRemember is a powerful tool featuring five types of remember mode and nine different remember times.

Features of BirthdayRemember include:

• Create personalized entries with custom Rememberoptions and Remembertimes.
• Automatic email forwarding.
• Play custom sounds
• Set your system to the atomic time of many different time servers on the Net
• Available in multiple languages
• Automatically minimized in the Windows System Tray

Download BirthdayRemember 6.1.1 in Softonic

TaoNotes 3D Pro is an advanced notetaking tool suitable for a wide range of note-taking actions. TaoNotes 3D Pro manages notes organized as outline structure suppoting some additional dimensions for ranging notes (states, flags, priorities). Build on the outstanding outline component VirtualTreeviw by Mike Lischke TaoNotes 3D gives you essential freedom in implementing your own notetaking system.

Features:

• Quick start
• Small on-screen size
• Compact and portable
• Always on-top
• Easily minimizable to tray
• Notes are organized in a hierarchy (outline) for efficient usage
• Intelligent notes management
• Simplified outlining
• Autosaving
• Dynamic filtration & search
• Filtration by flag
• Multiple types
• Multiple flags
• Multiple states
• Multiple statuses
• Multiple priorities
• Easy via-keys management
• Effective notes controlling via states

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iDo Wedding Couple Edition is wedding planning software designed to help save time and energy while planning a wedding. From compiling your guest list to mailing the last thank you note, your wedding will be a success. Brides and grooms across 39 countries have so far used iDo to organize their wedding details according to the developers.

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