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A Sampling of PIM-Related Products and Prototypes

The following is a sampling of PIM-related products and prototypes.  The list is guaranteed to be incomplete and is only intended to give you an idea of what is out there.  The collection of PIM-related tools is very large and constantly changing.  We welcome your suggestions on other products and prototypes to include in future versions of this "related tools" page. (Last updated: 05/30/04)

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CyberDesk
Andrew Wood, Anind Dey, and Gregory D. Abowd.  
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/cyberdesk/

Golden Retriever
N-Liter Enterprise
http://www.n-liter.com/

My Personal Diary
CAM Development. 
http://www.camdevelopment.com/pim/my_personal_diary/default.htm

Net Snippets
Net Snippets Ltd.
http://www.netsnippets.com/

OneNote2003
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/prodinfo/overview.mspx

Proteus
Thomas Erickson
http://www.outliners.com/discuss/msgReader$648?mode=day

Queries-R-Links (QRL)
Nipon Charoenkitkarn, Jim Tam, Mark H. Chignell, and Gene Golovchinsky.          
http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/projects.html

Secure Notes Organizer
SecureAction Research, LLC.           
http://www.secureaction.com/notes/

XLibris
Bill N. Schilit, Gene Golovchinsky, and Morgan N. Price             
http://www.fxpal.com/?id=xlibris

Yawas
Laurent Denoue and Laurence Vignollet.
http://www.fxpal.com/people/denoue/yawas/ 

Contact management

ACT!
Interact Commerce Corporation
http://www.act.com

Contact Plus Personal 2.7 c
Contact Plus Corporation  
http://www.contactplus.com/products/personal/permain.htm

ContactMap
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Ellen Isaacs, Mike Creech, Jeff Johnson, and John Hainsworth.
   
http://www.izix.com/pro/lightweight/contactmap.php

Prophet 2004: Contact manager
Avidian
Technologies       
http://www.avidian.com/avidian_product.aspx?n=2

Time & Chaos
Chaos Software (formerly iSBiSTER International, Inc.)

http://www.isbister.com/chaos32.html

Document manager

EndNote
ISI ResearchSoft
http://www.endnote.com/enhome.asp

Newdocs
Manuel Arriaga
http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/

Presto
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony Lamarca, and Michael Salisbury
http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/placeless/papers/tochi-presto.pdf

Email-centered

AmikaFreedom
AmikaNow
! Corporation    
http://www.amikanow.com/

BeOs
Be Inc
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421&page=13

Email Reminders Pro for Outlook
Sperry Software   
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook-EmailReminders-Pro.asp

Eudora
QUALCOMM Incorporated
http://www.eudora.com/

Ishmail
Jonathan Helfman, Charles Isbell, Brian Amento and Gavin Bell.
               
http://ishmail.sourceforge.net/

Lookout
Lookout Software (Eric Hahn and Mike Belshe)
http://www.lookoutsoft.com/

Pegasus Mail
David Harris
http://www.pmail.com/index.htm

TimeStore
Byron Long, Kelvin S. Yiu, Ronald Baecker, and Nancy Silver   
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/byron/papers/timestore.html

General PIM

Above & Beyond 2000 PRO
1soft
http://www.1soft.com

All-in-1 Personal Organizer
Bruno Cancellieri 
http://www.cancellieri.org/pmo_index.htm

AZZ Cardfile
AZZ Cardfile team: Rytis Zumbakis, Antanas Zdramys               
http://www.azzcardfile.com/

C-Organizer Pro 2.4
CSoftLab
              
http://www.csoftlab.com/C-OrganizerPro.html

DayPoint Professional
Front Office Communications, Inc
http://www.daypoint.com/Products/DayPointProf.asp

Duck Software: Organizer Software
Technological Solutions, Inc. (TSI): Duck Software     
http://www.ducksoftware.com/

Evolution
Ximian
Inc            
http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/features.html#pim

GNOME PIM
GNOME Foundation          
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/gnome-pim.shtml

Haystack
David R. Karger (MIT)       
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/index.html

Internet Organizer Deluxe
PrimaSoft PC, Inc.               
http://www.primasoft.com/deluxeprg/inodx.htm

KDE (K Desktop Environment)
Richard Moore, Ben Hummon          
http://www.kde.org/

Keynote
Marek Jedlinski
http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote_main.html 

Livelink
OpenLink
Software Inc.     
http://www.opentext.com/livelink

MDE Info Handler
MDE Software (Dr. Manfred Derenbach)
http://www.mdesoft.com/eng.htm

Office Accelerator
Baseline Data Systems (BDS)           
http://baselineconnect.com/product.html

Organizer Deluxe Series
PrimaSoft
PC, Inc.               
http://www.primasoft.com/shware.htm

Outlook, Microsoft
Microsoft Corp.
http://www.microsoft.com/

PDO (Personal Document Organizer)
Insoft
Technologies Inc    
http://www.insoft-tech.com/personal%20document%20organizer.htm

SixDegree
Creo
Inc.               
http://www2.creo.com/sixdegrees/

Student Online
Student Online Inc.
http://www.studentonline.com/

THE (The Human Environment)
Jef Raskin             
http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/index.html

TreePad!
Freebyte

http://www.treepad.com/

WinOrganizer 2.4
The Golden Section Labs, Pacific Business Centre       
http://www.tgslabs.com/eng/winorganizer/ 

Hypertext authoring tool

Aquanet
Catherine C. Marshall, Frank G. Halasz, Russell A. Rogers, and William C. Janssen Jr.
         
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/ht91.pdf

Life planner

PlanPlus
FranklinCovey
     
http://www.franklincovey.com

GoalPro
Success Studios Corporation           
http://www.goalpro.com/

Meeting planner

Tempus Fugit
Daniel A. Ford, Joann Ruvolo, Stefan Edlund, Jussi Myllymaki, James Kaufman, Jared Jackson, and Martin Gerlach.
   
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jussi/papers/TF/TF-CIKM2001.pdf

Mobile/PDA devices

Blackberry
Research In Motion Limited              
http://www.blackberry.net/index.shtml

Palm
Palm Inc.
http://www.palm.com/home.html 

Organization of handwritten notes

Dynomite
Lynn D. Wilcox, Bill N. Schilit, and Nitin “Nick” Sawhney.
         
http://seattleweb.intel-research.net/people/schilit/ldw.pdf

Paper organizer

MyLibrary
RENCorp
              
http://www.cribbagepegs.com/myuniqueprograms.html

Paper Tiger
Harold Tyler         
http://www.taylorontime.com/ptigersw.html 

Project-centered

AIM 96
Accu
Knowledge, Inc.       
http://www.akinet.com/aimff.htm

Umea (User-Monitoring Environment for Activities)
Victor Kaptelinin
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/Kaptelinin:Victor.html

Reading and Summarization

Reader's Helper,The
Jamey Graham, RICOH Research Center, Palo Alto      
http://rii.ricoh.com/~jamey

Record everything

Lifestreams / Scopeware Vision
Eric Freeman, David Gelernter and Scott Fertig             
http://www.scopeware.com

MyLifeBits
Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, Media Presene Group     
http://research.microsoft.com/research/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx

Pepys and Video Diary
Michael G. Lamming, M. A. Eldridge, M. Flynn, and William M. Newman
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/programs/mds/past-projects/video-diary.html

WorkplaceMirror
Richard Boardman, Robert Spence, M. Angela Sasse  
http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/research/pubs/struggle-hcii2003.pdf

Search across email, e-docs and other information forms

Enfish
Enfish
/Louise Wannier      
http://www.enfish.com/

Scopeware Vision
Scopeware, Inc.
http://www.scopeware.com

Stuff I've Seen
Susan Dumais
http://research.microsoft.com/~sdumais/

Semi-structured organization of small pieces of information (phone numbers, errands to run, books to read..)

Agenda, Lotus    
S. Jerrold Kaplan, Mitchell D. Kapor, Edward J. Belove, Richard A. Landsman, and Todd R. Drake.
Lotus.
http://home.neo.rr.com/pim/alinks.htm

Chandler
OSAF (Open Source Applications Foundation)            
http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm

Ecco
Netmanage
           
http://users.rcn.com/wussery/

Fusionpoint Stick-e-NotePad R.I.M.
Fusionpoint
Technologies Corp.     
http://www.fusionpointtech.com/

GoldenSectionNotes
The Golden Section Labs, Pacific Business Centre
http://www.tgslabs.com/eng/gsnotes/

Info Select
Micro Logic Corp.               
http://www.miclog.com/

Stickies
Tom Revell
http://www.btinternet.com/~tom.revell

Wintermute
David Jeske and Scott Hassan
http://neomason.com/wm.cst

YellowPen
YellowPen, Inc. - Steve Brown, John Leibovitz, and Steve Robinsion       
http://www.yellowpen.com/ypsite3/product/ypoverview.htm

Zoot
Zoot Software      
http://www.zootsoftware.com/

Task management

Bifrost Inbox Organizer
Olle Bälter, Candace L Sidner
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/580000/572034/p111-balter.pdf?key1=572034&key2=9273163801&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=21022367&CFTOKEN=33191323

Quick2Do 1.0.2
CodeGrid
Software.             
http://codegrid.tripod.com/

Simple Diary
Aaron Whiffin
http://www.webbedfeetuk.com/diary/

Softwrights Reminder ™
Softwrights
, Inc.  
http://www.softwrights.com/rmenu.htm

Taskmaster
Bellotti
, Ducheneaut, Howard, Smith               
http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/jacek/emailresearch/CSCW2002/submissions/PARC-Taskmaster%20position%20paper.pdf

TaskView
Gwizdka
               
http://www.cas.ibm.com/archives/2002/papers/cascon02/htm/francais/abs/gwizdka.htm

Virtual 3-d

Data Mountain
George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Daniel C. Robbins, David Thiel, and Maarten van Dantzich           
http://research.microsoft.com/~ggr/

Visualization of information relationships

Idea Graph
Danny Ayers       
http://www.ideagraph.net/

The Brain
TheBrain
Technologies Corporation               
http://www.thebrain.com/Default.htm

VVKB (Visual Knowledge Builder)  
Dr. Frank Shipman,  Dr. Haowei Hsieh
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/VKB/

Web organizer

Backflip
Backflip, Inc
http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml

FeedDemon RSS Reader for Windows
Nick Bradbury, Bradbury Software, LLC
http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp

ikeepbookmarks.com
Software Designs Development Corp
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/

linkaGoGo
linkaGoGo, DBA
http://www.linkagogo.com/

MyYahoo
Yahoo! Inc
http://my.yahoo.com/

Online FileCabinet
Mike Giles
http://www.furl.net

Powerbookmarks
Li, W-S., Q. Vu, E. Chang, D. Agrawal, Y. Hara, and H. Takano  
http://www.teamxweb.com/doc/relatedWork.shtml#PowerBookmarks

Powermarks
Kaylon
Technologies         
http://www.kaylon.com/power.html

Semantic Blogging for Bibliography Management
HP Lab  
http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/biblio.htm

SurfSaver
askSam Systems
http://www.surfsaver.com/

WebWatcher
T. Joachims, D. Freitag, T. Mitchell 
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-6/web-agent/www/project-home.html

Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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