If you're the kind of person who likes to organize every aspect of their daily workflow, you're going to love Golden Rules Organizer.

Being a Java-based app, the truth is that Golden Rules Organizer doesn't have a very eye-catching interface, but this is no drawback for it to be fairly user-friendly. Information is organized in separate tabs (activities, tasks, projects, contacts...) and can also be easily exported to Excel files.

I especially liked the level of customization allowed by Golden Rules Organizer for each new entry: you can assign different categories, groups, priorities, deadlines, status and much more to each one of them.

Golden Rules Organizer shows task and project plannings in a hierarchical structure, which allows you to get a full preview of how tasks are being organized and how much time they'll take to complete. Also, the program includes a log tool that lets you keep track of everything that's going on.

Despite having quite a dull interface, Golden Rules Organizer stands out as a very complete task manager with project management capabilities as well.

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They say the key to beat procrastination is managing your time properly, and FruitfulTime TaskManager can help you with that.

FruitfulTime TaskManager is a lightweight, effective task manager that helps you organize your tasks in a more productive way and thus make the most of your time. With FruitfulTime TaskManager you always have your tasks at sight, which makes it easier to track their progress and prioritize certain projects over others.

Tasks in FruitfulTime TaskManager are organized by tags. You can add as many customized tabs as you want and also create subtasks to any task. The program also features a built-in notes tool, a basic contacts list and a reminder tool that makes sure you don't forget any significant date or miss an important event again.

That said, it's worth bearing in mind that FruitfulTime TaskManager is the "lite" version of a more complete task manager, so you may find it a bit basic in terms of its tools and configuration options. But if you only need the standard stuff – that is, basic task managing tools - FruitfulTime TaskManager may be perfect for you.

FruitfulTime TaskManager is a basic, lightweight task manager that helps you track all your tasks in a more efficient way.

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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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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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Chandler is an open source organizer which lets you create and save notes and organize them in your calendar.

Although at first I found the interface a little cluttered, it really seems to have everything you need. The quick entry section at the top, which you could mistake for a search bar, lets you create notes quickly. Detail on your notes is shown on the right side of the interface. Chandler also displays a calendar, which you can browse through to see notes for each day.

In place of tags, Chandler has what it calls collections. These work more or less the same way, however I've found them to be slightly less flexible.

Chandler allows you to easily import and export information, mostly as CSV files and you can share your notes with others, by using the Chandler Server and Hub Sharing Service.

One of the best features of Chandler is that you can customize it with any sort of plugins found on the website.

Despite a slightly cluttered interface, Chandler is a solid open source note taker and organizer.

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Tired of losing your important notes? Have a task to complete? Reminder programs too complicated to use?? Download Black Hole Organizer now!

All too often you sit down to draft a letter or jot some quick notes down and you lose them somewhere on that thing we call a desk, otherwise known as a Black Hole. Well now you can organize that Black Hole with Black Hole Organizer! You can store all of your notes and documents in one convenient place AND you can get them back out again. Simply put, it's the best organizer software application going!

With Black Hole Organizer's text editor you can create beautiful documents that you can either print or email to others as needed. Below we touch on just a few of the features that you will find inside Black Hole Organizer but be sure to download and give it a work out to find out just how it can save you time!

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DayMate is an excellent day planner that helps you get organized in both your business and personal life.

It enables you to create reminders for any kind of event: anniversaries, meetings, personal dates and so on, including system tasks like turning the PC off or launching a given application. Each reminder has its own color code and can be set to warn you with a pop-up window, a sound or even by sending you an e-mail message.

If you have ever used Microsoft Outlook, you'll have noticed that DayMate's interface is very similar to Outlook's calendar. In any case, you'll find it extremely easy to use. The only thing I missed is the possibility to create new categories for events but, otherwise, DayMate may the planner you're looking for.

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Life can get pretty messy sometimes but there are plenty of software tools around that can help you get yourself organized. es-Builder is a decent solution that allows you to create tables of data with completely customized fields. You can specify the type of data that is recorded, and can even store notes, boolean expressions and images in your tables.

This makes the program very useful for a number of purposes, such as keeping inventories, planning tasks and appointments, categorizing your movie or book collections, or logging your expenses. The program copes adeptly with even large amounts of data by including a handy finder that lets you instantly check all the fields of your tables for the information you're looking for.

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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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Jingle is a sms/email/desktop reminder program with user friendly interface and powerful capacities. No matter you are at home, in the office, or on the road, whenever you want, Jingle will remind you any important event in advance.

Jingle provides flexible reminders for birthday, anniversary, medication, appointment or any other events. And it runs on your own PC to protect your personal privacy. Jingle can be flexibly configured to suit your everyday needs. Reminder can be setup continuously and repeatedly on any day at any time.

It also allows you to input any customized message or detail information regards to the event or appointment. Most importantly you don't have to be in front of your computer 24/7, Jingle can send SMS text messages or e-mails to your mobile phone, PDA or other portable device you might carrying with you.

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ActionOutline helps you organize your bits of info into the intuitive Explorer-like outline form.The possibilities for its use are practically endless: to-do lists, recipes, project notes, personal contacts, bookmark lists, reports, term papers and more.

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MiniReminder is a small, fast, and simple program for Windows to remind yourself of important yearly events, like birthdays, anniversaries, renewals, etc. You can add short comments, customize the colors, and choose the font type and size.

MiniReminder is not obtrusive at all, as it can start automatically and hide in the system tray until the day a reminder is due. It's also very easy to install and uninstall thanks to the included installer engine.

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Milenix MyInfo is a personal-reference information manager (PRIM) for Windows. MyInfo is a complete solution for collecting, organizing, editing, storing, and retrieving personal-reference information. Using MyInfo, you will never lose an important document again. By organizing all your information in your MyInfo topics, they will be easy to find and retrieve later on.

MyInfo organizes and stores not only text documents, but also web resources and third-party application files, allowing you to organize all your information with a single application. Its abilities to organize all kinds of information make it very suitable for organizing project-support materials like documents, invoices, outlines, and mind-maps.

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C-Organizer Professional is a stylish and powerful manager of your personal and business-related information. The program employs a simple and user-friendly interface to make working with this software easy and intuitive. C-Organizer Professional was created to help you plan your personal and professional life.

This application contains a Planner, Address Book, Password and Bookmark managers, Notepad, and Calendar of Events. It will remind you about coming up birthdays, appointments, holidays, and scheduled tasks. Program's tree-like database structure display the information in a convenient, easy to search and a navigational manner. All data can be shared in real-time on a network. You can be in your calendar at the same time as your assistant! Moreover, you can synchronize your C-Organizer, including Appointments, Tasks and Address book with your Pocket PC or Palm device!

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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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GoalEnforcer is a user-friendly purely visual goal setting, planning and managing tool. This application can help you manage what you want to get out of your life, helping you focus and realize your dreams.

Features of the program:

• Set your goals
• Organize your goal plan
• Break down big goals into smaller sub-goals
• Track your progress
• Achieve

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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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WinWorkBar will help you to organize your affairs. You can in easy and comfortable way write your tasks to do and notes. Notes are for fast remember of any information. Tasks are like notes, about that program will remind in given term. You can assign tasks and notes to configurable categories and then easy filter it. You will be informed about term of task execution with nice window and configured sound.

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