esyPlanner is a complete, free personal information manager that helps you handle tasks, keep a calendar, track personal expenses and even write a personal diary, all from one single interface. You can easily change from one section to another using esyPlanner's left panel, and see the content of the currently selected section in the main interface area.

Besides the usual PIM functionality, esyPlanner also features a special Warnings panel to keep track of all your upcoming events and tasks. Additionally, it lets you search for specific annotations and can also print reports with scheduled events.

esyPlanner has a lot of customization options. Some of these include categories to organize notes and tasks, color codes, privacy settings and different priority values. In fact, there are so many little details to take into account that sometimes it feels a bit overwhelming.

Generally speaking though, it's a handy information manager for those who want to improve productivity via a more organized workflow.

If you're stuck under a pile of pending tasks and meetings, esyPlanner can help you out with a more organized agenda.

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If you're always losing your personal organizer then Noto Personal Organizer is a mini application or ‘window gadget’ that you can move around your computer desktop.

Noto Personal Organizer works exactly like a real personal organizer, with page turning and separate side tabbed sections. This includes a week to view, month to view and projects section. Of course, you've also got an address book and you can set alarms to be triggered when an important event has come up. In addition Noto Personal Organizer gives you a host of other tools including a calculator, mp3 player and a memory game.

The problem is the features should have stopped there. Noto Personal Organizer insists on bloating itself with icons, gadgets, design options and maps that you'll never really use. In fact, there's more emphasis on making your organizer look good than adding any other truly useful features to it - like the ability to integrate with Google Calendar, for example.

Noto Personal Organizer certainly looks good but its functionality could have been extended by adding more substance to its outward style.

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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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You can create as many to-do lists as you need in Task List Guru, and add all the tasks you want to each one. The program also lets you back up, print or export the list (to HTML or CSV), and move it to a USB memory drive as well.

Each task you create in Task List Guru has a priority and type – two features to which you can add your own options – as well as a title and a description. Tasks can also be assigned a due date and customizable reminders to make sure you meet all your deadlines.

Task List Guru has a clean, friendly interface and includes also a quick start guide that walks you through the main features of the program the first time you run it – which is always a good idea for newcomers.

Task List Guru is a simple yet powerful to-do list app with lots of interesting features and a clean interface.

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In the realm of schedulers, there seems to be those that fall into two categories: To Do list apps and straight-up calendars. Neither really gets the job done fully if you're a college student. Get Organized fills in the gaps in that respect, letting you be as specific and detailed as you want.

The nice thing about Get Organized is that it's more than just a calendar, and far more than a simple to do list. Get Organized seems to be targeted specifically for university students, although high school students will also find most of the features useful. You first sort your courses by school term. Then start adding in the classes you're taking in a given semester or quarter. Courses are differentiated by the color of your choosing. Define the dates the class runs from, the days of the week it meets on, and even list the room number and other important information.

Get Organized even takes it a step further from there, however. By allowing you to note all of your assigned homework, assign a priority level to each one, and even input information about the required textbooks per class, you really have no excuse for not getting things turned in on time. There's also a really helpful option to email your professors via one simple click if you've added their information into the proper field.

The only hang-up a user could possibly have with Get Organized is that there are so many features that it's possible you might miss one or two. Luckily, Get Organized also comes with a very handy help prompt upon start-up that you can later choose to disable once you've learned all the tricks.

Get Organized is also available in a portable version, allowing you to take the program virtually anywhere you can imagine going yourself.

For a comprehensive class scheduler and assignment organization tool, Get Organized is not to be missed.

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With RedNoteBook Portable, you’ll find everything you need to keep your life more organized. The program supports text formatting and image insertion, recognizes web links and email addresses, saves notes automatically and lets you backup notes to a ZIP archive or export them to other formats – such as PDF, HTML or TXT.

You can easily browse the notes you create in RedNoteBook Portable with the built-in calendar, or use the program’s tag cloud. As the program stores data in text files, there’s no need for a database.

RedNoteBook Portable has a clean, simple interface design that makes this little app a pleasure to use. A few more extra features – like password protection - and it would be perfect!

RedNoteBook Portable lets you write notes in a stylish journal and keep them perfectly organized.

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EfficientPIM is a fully featured personal information manager that helps you organize both your professional and your personal life in an effective way. It features a clean interface, very similar to that of Microsoft Outlook – only without the email bit.

With EfficientPIM you can schedule all sorts of events and organize them in a calendar, have all your friends and professional partners in a Contacts list, create a list of pending tasks to organize your work and even jot down your thoughts in the program's built-in diary or notes utility.

Despite the high number of options and settings, EfficientPIM remains an easy-to-use app, especially if you've used Microsoft Outlook. The program's appearance can be customized with skins and the calendar tool can import a list of predefined holidays. There are also tools to generate passwords and backup all your data.

EfficientPIM is a handy, complete personal information manager that can help you deal with all sorts of tasks and events.

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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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If you're the kind of person who likes to organize every aspect of their daily workflow, you're going to love this program. Being Java-based, Golden Rules Organizer doesn't have a very eye-catching interface, but this doesn't mean it's not user-friendly. Information is organized in separate tabs such as activities, tasks projects, contracts, and others. It can also be easily exported to Excel files.

The level of customization Golden Rules Organizer allows for each new entry is impressive. You can assign different categories, groups, priorities, deadlines, statuses, and much more to each one of them. You can also import and export ready-made files to Golden Rules Organizer at will.

Golden Rules Organizer shows task and project planning in a hierarchical structure. This allows you to get a full preview of how tasks are being organized and how much time they'll take to complete, which is definitely a plus for most users. The program also includes a log tool that lets you keep track of everything that's going on from task to task.

Despite its plain interface, Golden Rules Organizer stands out as a very complete task and project manager.

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The interface in AllMyNotes Organizer features a classic design, with a sidebar on the left and a main area where the selected element is displayed – and it can be easily customized with skins. The top toolbar includes a dozen colorful icons that point to the program’s various tools and utilities, among which you’ll find a password generator, a powerful built-in search and a reminder function.

All the notes you create in AllMyNotes Organizer can be saved into different folders and subfolders, making them easier to handle and browse. Also, each folder and note has a distinctive icon so that you can find them more quickly, and notes can be password protected for extra security. The AllMyNotes Organizer note editor supports rich text editing, and the program lets you export data to a few formats: RTF, HTML and TXT.

Summing up, AllMyNotes Organizer is a handy note management tool that’s surely going to help you be more organized and productive. AllMyNotes Organizer also works great as a tool to remember all those phone numbers, email addresses and lists you usually jot down in paper notes. Too bad half of these features are disabled once the 14-day trial period is over!

AllMyNotes Organizer helps you organize, manage and protect all sorts of notes in a nicely designed interface.

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taskTome includes a calendar, task and note functions and personal finance manager. The full-featured calendar and note tools are useful for both personal and professional aspects of your life, with pre-set and customizable planning categories, as well as having the option to add public holiday calendars from a variety of countries - the US, Australia and New Zealand.

The personal finance manager is a tool that you don’t normally find on this type of personal organizer. taskTome allows you to keep a track of your cash and bank accounts, visualize them in 3D graphic form, calculate interest accrued and export data to PDF.

Unfortunately, taskTome’s financial functions are only available in dollars, while the calendar and other functions only display the date in US format (i.e. month/day/year). The personal finance manager, although an interesting touch, is far too simple for anybody who is dealing with financial concepts that go beyond pocket money or profits from a paper round.

taskTome makes a good attempt at a personal organizer, but unfortunately the finance module isn’t sufficiently advanced for most adults’ lives.

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Thanks to Wieldy, and if you’ve adopted the GTD method, you’ll be able to manage your tasks and projects in a much more productive way, reducing work overload and stress – as well as the queue of pending tasks.

Wieldy lets you create a list of tasks (or 'thoughts', as they're called here), organizing them in projects and then distributing them according to the GTD principles. These principles are: do it now, schedule it for a specific day, delegate it to someone else, or just postpone it for someday.

The interface in Wieldy is nicely designed and easy to use. A left sidebar shows the structure of all your tasks, while the main area shows the content of the selected category.

Wieldy has other interesting features, such as a contacts manager, support to import data from Outlook and Lotus Notes, and the possibility to sync your data with a local or remote (FTP) server.

Wieldy is the perfect companion for those of you who decide to adopt the GTD method to improve your productivity.

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