PrestoNotes is a freeware tool for Windows that lets you write little memos and stick them on your screen. The notes may be accessed through the control panel, or through a simple context menu sitting in the Windows toolbar. So, you can show or hide a note with only 2 mouse clicks!

PrestoNotes is totally multilingual thanks to the addition of language files. English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Polish and Swedish languages are included in the installation package, but you can easily create and add a new language for the program. Illustrated help notes are also included in the program.

Take a look at what PrestoNotes features:

• Customize notes in detail: background, text color, transparency, font, position, size, etc.
• Always on top of other windows, or not
• Possibility to open or save in an external file (.txt)
• Add an automatic reminder to any note
• Trigger one or more actions when a reminder is activated

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Power Notes is a multi-featured desktop notes organizer, reminder and scheduler allowing you to create electronic sticky notes and display them at a set time. The program is very easy to use and has low system requirements.

The program allows you to perform the following:

• Create electronic desktop notes (stickers)
• Edit sticky notes in the quick and advanced modes
• Specify the date and time of reminder
• Customize the default parameters of notes (their size, text, background and title color, position on the desktop, transparency; shortcuts)
• Specify the date and time of a reminder in every detail with the help of "Alarm Wizard"
• Run programs and opening web pages when the note appears
• Print the text of stickers
• Save the text of a note to a file
• Anniversary and birthday reminder
• Use various skins
• Scheduling turning off the computer

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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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If you're constantly looking for new ways to organise your life, then you might find that Agenda MSD Personal fills a gap that other programs have failed to.

Using an organiser like this has many advantages, not least that it saves you time and effort trying to keep track of what you have to do next and when you have to do it. The program doesn't win many marks for visual appearance - it's not exactly the most attractive organiser I've ever seen but what it does excel in is organisational features - there's just about nothing that you can't enter into this program. This includes everything from managing your daily activities, your phone book, and banking transactions to, if you're managing a business, your dealings with clients, suppliers and other contacts. It even stores essential passwords and usernames for your favourite sites and applications so that you don't waste valuable time in that department either. As an additional bonus, you can print out and save schedules and even histories in PDF format so that you've got a hard copy in case of any crashes to your system or confusions in your appointments.

If you're not bothered by looks or navigation issues, this is a fully comprehensive organiser that caters for every conceivable need.

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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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Dynamic Notes is a simple desktop notes reminder and manager allowing you to create electronic desktop notes (stickers) and display them when the time is due. The program is very easy to use and has low system requirements.

Features:

• Create electronic sticky notes (stickers)
• Edit stickers in the quick and advanced modes
• Specify the date and time of reminder
• Customize the default parameters of sticky notes (their size, text, background and title color, position on the desktop, transparency; shortcuts)

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I've started using a notes organizer only recently, and I can already see all its advantages when it comes to managing tasks, deadlines and meetings.

You can also make the most of your time with ErgoNotes, a handy note organizer you can use for all kinds of purposes: handle shopping lists, jot down interesting topics for future blog posts, set reminders for yourself, organize ideas for brainstorming sessions... pretty much anything you can think of.

ErgoNote organizes notes in a tree-like structure which makes them easier to handle. The program also features an embedded search tool to find notes, a wide collection of icons to identify each note, an encrypting tool and support for alarms, though this last feature only works if you name your tasks following an "alarm node pattern" I was unable to find anywhere – not even in the program's documentation.

What's more, if you have a Pocket PC you can use the Pocket version of ErgoNotes on it as well, synchronizing data between your desktop and your device and making the program even more useful.

With ErgoNotes you can organize your life in a more productive way, especially if you also have a Pocket PC and sync data between your desktop and your device.

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Although I'm not the type of person who forgets appointments, like my flatmate, I do find it difficult to remember 'important' dates of public celebrations, birthdays and anniversarys for example. Having a program that reminds us of all these significant days can be really vital!

QReminder is free and lets you set many options for the notes you write. You can view them in an editor to have a quick glance of all your reminders and you can create a textbox post-it on top of the screen, to write reminders on the fly. The clear and simple design is what you need when you have too many messy notes. The good thing is that after writing there is no need to press any save button. The program automatically saves changes and new entries.

The downside is that you can't set to be alerted on something before the day of the event. That forces you to write entries with a prior date so to be alerted in time. How absurd, considering you write reminders exactly to know in advance when you have to buy presents or to write cards. Moreover, the program bar stays always on top and if you right-click on it, no menu appears to close it. I had to use the Ctrl+alt+canc task manager tool!

QReminder lets you write notes and reminders in a simple way and it can be useful to have an idea of all you have to do, but the reminder function is greatly limited as you cannot be reminded of an event before the date in which it is due.

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This practical application allows you to quickly and easily take control of your notes, favorites, and events. Notes are presented in a clear, and easy-to-read manner, meaning that you can stay on top of what you´re doing at all times.

MakeNotes is great for noting down memories and ideas, then referring back to them at any time. The interface is highly customizable and you can even create your own skins for the application using a standard graphics package.

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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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Designed for simplicity and speed, and running in your System Tray, Task Plus keeps track of an unlimited number of personal to-do items, date-rated appointments, holidays and even repeating events such as birthdays. Using sophisticated alarms it can also play sounds when a task comes due. Powerful filters make it easy to view tasks in certain categories or by project.

Breakdown of the main features:

• Includes 230 pre-programmed international holidays from over 20 countries
• Automatic back-up for assuring you don´t lose your contacts
• The ability to protect the program and the Password List with a password
• Generates monthly web calendars that can be published on your site

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MyLife is a simple yet powerful personal time and task management software application. Organize your goals/projects/tasks into a tree and MyLife will generate a simple To Do list of actions for you. This list will contain only those actions which require immediate attention. The list will be sorted in order of priority so that you can stay focused on what is really important to you. MyLife can also be connected to your MS Outlook to exchange data with it.

Since MyLife is highly customizable, you can turn on only features which are really needed for you now. It can be used as a simple outliner for all types of information (notes, ideas, bookmarks, check-lists etc). Simply minimize it to your system tray where it is available for your next thought or task.

Here is what MyLife Organized has to offer:

• Outline your tasks
• Set different priorities to tasks
• Automatically generate the ordered To-Do list
• Assign appropriate places or situations for each task
• Take your tasks everywhere in your PocketPC device

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

Well, you'll know that using post-it-notes is often a very disorganised 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 that stick up your PC screen rather than your working environment. That way, you keep your desk tidy and you never forget them because they're always right there in front of you. This is a beautifully designed and presented program which gives you an authentic sticky note feel without the hassle of the real thing. An essential feature is that the sticky notes may look messy, but it features a reminder to remind you of your most essential appointments. One other really useful feature is the ability to join groups by choice which allows you to create, modify, delete and relocate groups by simple clicking or drag-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.

A discreet and highly useful program that will have sticky note fans reaching for their wastepaper bin and converting to this method.

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My only experience of school timetables was getting one on the first morning of term, putting it into my pocket then losing it on the football field at lunchtime. If only I'd realised how much work goes into planning all those lessons and classrooms over the week for the whole school, I maybe would've taken more care. FET is a piece of software designed to aid the process of organising teachers, students and rooms in an educational establishment to produce timetables that make the best use of the resources available and ensure that nothing clashes.

This program is certainly not a personal schedule planning application, but rather an administrative tool for those working within the educational system. Perhaps it's understandable then that the interface is a bit of a beast to operate. There are many options here for organising and planning timetables, but learning how to access them all takes a lot of time. In fact, you might even need to schedule a timetable for studying FET.

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Swift To-Do List is an innovative to-do list software with reminder and to-do lists organized by tree structure with icons. It has been designed for maximum productivty, clarity, and ease of use. The program supports advanced exporting (HTML, Excel) and printing capabilities, so you can always have your to-do lists with you. The application is suitable for both personal and business use.

All tasks can have customized priority level, task type, due date, and reminder. There is an option which will remove all finished tasks, so your list can be up to date. You can sort the to-do list by subject, priority, due date or the task type. It is also possible to batch modify properties of tasks. You will never forget anything again thanks to the inbuilt reminder, which can be activated for any of your tasks.

You can look up your tasks using useful Find function. Great drag-and-drop support allows you to drag tasks from one to-do list to another, you can also easily drag whole to-do lists in the tree so you can organize them. Global hotkey is another handy feature, just press it and the Swift To-Do List Software will be restored from the System Tray and ready to use.

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Freebie Notes is an easy-to-use reminder for Windows. With Freebie Notes you can create notes displaying on your desktop. Your notes can be displayed immediately after creation or in the certain moments of time. You can create notes of custom sizes and colors and set different types for your notes.

Freebie Notes features: unlimited number of notes, notes autosaving, notes database editor, fast notes displaying time setting (Quick alarm settings). Note displaying can be accompanied by standard windows sound alarms or users' sounds in wav format. The most important note can be declared as VIP-note displaying with a blink and sound accompaniment. The application has a nice convenient interface.

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NoteZilla is a highly fast, flexible & elegant note-taking program for Windows. Just as we use paper stickies (such as Post-It notes), NoteZilla lets you create virtual sticky notes on your Windows Desktop.

Make sure that you read following benefits:

Fast

Instantly write notes on desktop sticky notes. They appear quick and also disappear quick so that it does not affect your current activity.

Neat

Organize sticky notes inside memoboards (folders) to avoid clutter on your Windows Desktop.

Smart

Stick Notes to any document, website, program & window. Let them appear when ever you open that document (or website, program, window).

Flexible

Treat notes as tasks, reminders or memos. NoteZilla presents a very easy and intuitive way of doing this.

Accessible

Finding a note quickly is as important as writing a note. NoteZilla lets you locate the right note instantly.

Elegant

The digital sticky notes look awesome on your Desktop. Sticky Notes are skinnable and they can appear transparent too

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Chandler 0.6 delivers an experimentally usable calendar for individuals and small workgroups. It is a test release for collecting feedback based on real usage. 0.6 offers innovative new capabilities in calendar sharing to support workgroup collaboration. Chandler sharing is server-based, works across platforms and supports multi-author editing. 0.6 continues to improve Chandler's developer platform framework. A developer looking to extend Chandler should be able to create a simple forms-based parcel.

In addition to basic calendaring, advanced features include:

• Recurring events
• Time-zones
• Overlayed multiple calendars
• Managing a single event across calendars

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Enhanced desktop notes that; persist windows sessions, give you control of the look and feel, allow you to save and open notes, provides special notes that provide updated information, drag text to and from any application, and even email the notes or just a selection of the note. Notes on your desktop have never been easier and with Note-It you get all the power you will ever need in note application.

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NotesHolder lets you quickly type in any piece of information so that you can easily find it when you need, read it or print it out for your convenience. This represents an effective way to store all your notes without cluttering up your desk with PostIt and sticky notes.

Unlike the other similar applications, NotesHolder is very thrifty with your screen space. You can even turn off NotesHolder icon in the system tray. But if you move your mouse cursor to the edge of the screen, the list of the notes sorted by the time of creation and divided into categories will pop up. Click once to create a new note or to edit an existing one. Click once more to print the note.

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