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There are options but you do have to know where to look and most people don't. One program I use at both home and work is Oubliette (Windows only I'm afraid).

It's very ease to use and has encryption so I can can carry all my passwords on a USB stick and know even if I lose it no one can get my passwords (unless they hack the master password).

got ya beat -- *open source* (though for windows only) Oubliette

to keep track of your todo stuff and your notes you can use keynote. Not the Mac app, but the keynote from http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html windows. I like yahoo calendar for appointments if you are always connected and checking email frequently.

If you are at all concerned about security and want to follow best practices and only have to remember one password...

http://www.tranglos.com/free/oubliette.html

I have one strong password. I don't know any of my passwords besides it, even though I have 30+... I just keep the open source program Oubliette on a usb keychain drive. http://www.tranglos.com/free/oubliette.html/ I also have a truecrypted backup. Using the same password everywhere and writing it down is just plain stupid.

The central idea of this book, which was not really covered in the Slashdot review, is that you should not be using your brain to remember things about work. Every time you have a thought relevant to work -- an idea, a task to accomplish, a goal to achieve -- you should have some kind of information management system in place so that your thought gets recorded for future review and action.

I married Allen's advice with a cheap digital voice recorder and with a great piece of free Windows software called Keynote. Keynote is a tabbed outliner, where each of the main ten or so components to my life each get their own outline (in my case: speaking dates, website development, to do's, etc). It's really the only software that is keeping me using Windows. I use my Mac for nearly everything else.

Getting Things Done is perhaps the only business book that I intend to re-read. If you feel stressed about your work, and have this lingering feeling you're not as effective as you need to be, I really suggest a weekend with this book. Just know that you should be joining its advice with a software solution like Keynote, plus a (real-world) filing cabinet, as you seek to empty the stuff in your brain into its appropriate places.

Oh, and one more thing. Getting Things Done is a great piece of writing. And how often can you say that about a business book?

Most of the treebased PIM's are shareware or for Linux but after looking hard I found something free,opensource, nice and working for Windows called Keynote

Download Keynote and try the sample files to see what you can do with Keynote.

BTW: If you know Delphi you can help out adding new features.

Most of the treebased PIM's are shareware or for Linux but after looking hard I found something free,opensource, nice and working for Windows called Keynote

Download Keynote and try the sample files to see what you can do with Keynote.

BTW: If you know Delphi you can help out adding new features.

Likewise, for message boards, I use the same pw all across. Other than that, I use diferent, more complext pw's for the more important stuff. To remmeber all the pw's I use Oubliette. It stores info such as username, pw, email address, and notes all in one file. You then have to remember only the pw to that file which is encrypted. It also has a random pw generator.

Whoops. Here's the link for KeyNote.

...or this:
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