Great free software for those who need to get organized!

I found this cool piece of software that will basically turn your laptop into a PDA! its pretty sweet and best of all its FREE!! I think this is a must have for any college student that will have a lot on their plate and need something to remind them of important events.

Features:

• Every feature you need to organize your life: scheduling, contact info, To-Do lists and versatile notes
• Easy import from MS Outlook or Outlook Express
• Simple printout of any or all modules and quick export of your data into the most useful formats
• Strong data protection using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm
• Multilingual interfaces

http://www.essentialpim.com/index.php

 

I'm having trouble seeing the benefit over Outlook, other than the free part, bu students get Office for almost nothing anyway.

 

www.evernote.com

 

wow that program looks a lot better than the 1 I found. I will have to try it out and see if i like it better or not!

Thanks Man!

 

Yea, my college offers that for free with tuition, but i dont like the interface as much as some of the 3rd party apps i have seen.

 

I use Rainlender (Calender/Lists/Todos)+ Rainlender Server (Syncs, my main computer with my laptop whereever it goes) + Mozilla Sunbird (Calender, this is for setting things up long term, this program syncs with Rainlender).

 

I just looked at that and i am not too keen on it, but if it works for you then great!

 

I much prefer OneNote...it's even free right now after rebate.

 

i installed onenote and i didnt really like it, i like the way evernote is set up much better. its much easier to impliment the GTD system the way the notes are organized in evernote

 

Very cool. I use Microsoft's OneNote, but I think I'll give this a try anyway. One Note is good, but you never know if theres anything better. Two other must have programs include QueCard (a great study aid) and Post-it® Software Notes. I like the QueCard program the best of the two, its a very simple no frills program that mimics double-sided index cards so you can have a flash-card study aid on your PC. It helped me pass biology without having to buy and write on index cards -- my writing always seem to look like death threats from the Unibomer, I don't even open packages sent to myself; I keep thinking it's going to be anthrax.

Here's the download.com link to QueCard 1.5: http://www.download.com/CueCard/3000-2051_4-10380167.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

Just curious, I installed EverNote and I noticed in the options you can choose the paper color and line color. But how do you get your notes to actually look like paper? That's the number one thing I love about OneNote. It feels like a real notepad and for some reason it helps to get me in the mood to type.

 

when you start a new note, you can select what type of note you want. the paper appearance is for "ink note"