5. Various Conceptual Approaches to Personal Information Management

• The history of PDAs

• Jon Udell: Mitch Kapor's open source PIM to use wxPython

• ITWALES.COM - How do Open Source groupware solutions measure up?

• Agenda Links Page

• Lotus Agenda FAQ

• guterman.clips.Agenda

• Zoot - Win-based Lotus Agenda "clone" of sorts...

• Beeswax

  An open source package (runs as a console application) that is intended to be reminiscent of Lotus Agenda

• Lotus Agenda Excite search for +Lotus +Agenda

• Ecco

  In the "Windows" world, a fairly unique PIM system is Ecco. It appears to have the model that events go together to define "projects," and thus is fairly useful for people involved in project management.

  It knows how to sync data with 3Com PalmPilots and possibly other PDAs; Ecco has been discontinued.

• ee - categorizing information manager for Emacs

• Informant

  Informant is a set of utilities for keeping a user informed of events. It consists of an informant, which is the means by which the user is alerted to the occurrence of the said event, and a number of sources that "whisper" an alert to the informant when the event occurs.

  Uses Python, Twisted, and can run as a Gnome panel applet.

• Dasher

  Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures.