The Computer Revolution/Software/Personal Information Managers

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Personal Information Managers[edit | edit source]

A personal information manager (PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. As an information management tool, a PIM's purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of certain types of "personal information".

Examples of PIM:

  • E-mail
  • Address Books
  • Calendars
  • Journals
Microsoft Outlook[edit | edit source]

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Outlook is an e-mail client, an address book, journal, a calendar and many more PIM features.

Mac iCal[edit | edit source]

iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ICal2.png February 27, 2007

Evolution[edit | edit source]

Evolution is a personal information manager made by Novell and the GNOME project primarily for Linux, although it is also available for Mac OS/X and may soon be ported to Microsoft Windows.

Vault 3[edit | edit source]

Vault 3 stores your information and photographs as an outline. Vault 3 organizes your information into categories and sub-categories that you specify. Vault 3's outline is easily and rapidly searchable. Vault 3 uses strong encryption to ensure the privacy of your personal data. Vault 3 can even run slideshows of your photographs. Vault 3 runs on 32 and 64-bit Windows operating systems, 32 and 64-bit Linux GTK operating systems, and 64-bit Mac OS X.

Reference: http://www.ericbt.com/Vault3

Vault 3 is also available for Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ericbt.Vault3