Notes and Reminders

Birthday Reminder is a simple program that can alert you of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries or other recurring events. You can choose to be notified X days in advance, select a custom icon for each entry and also view the current age of the person. The program checks for new birthdays every time you start your computer. If you do not restart your PC on a daily basis, you can perform manual checks or use the Windows Task Scheduler to run the check on a daily basis.

TaskPrompt allows you to manage a personal ToDo and Task list. It provides an easy to use interface with integrated calendar display that allows you to quickly view the tasks that are due for the selected date. It can also remind you of due items with a message from the system tray and allows you to organize your tasks based on priority and category. The display can be filtered by date range, status and other properties.

iQ-Notes enables you to place sticky notes on your desktop to remind you of things to do, keep notes of random information and more. The notes can be associated with alarm reminders and also password protected to keep the content private. The program can even synchronize your notes with an FTP server, either for backup purposes or to synchronize your notes with a remote location (e.g your office). Other features include custom priority levels and color coding, encrypted note storage, multi-user support, printing of notes, and more.

ReminderCube is a personal calendar and reminder application that displays your daily events and reminds you of upcoming tasks. The interface also provides a simple RSS reader to keep track of your favorite web feeds, as well as an application launcher for quick access to frequently used files, folders and programs. You can choose from various interface skins and themes and also include a picture of your choice.

Rainlendar Lite is a small and compact desktop calendar that comes with some powerful features under the hood. It integrates nicely with your desktop wallpaper and allows interactive access to selected dates, just click on a date to add an appointment or reminder. It also comes with a ToDo list that can optionally be displayed or maintained hidden. The calendar automatically supports one-time and recurring events and tasks with optional reminder alarms. It highlights dates that have appointments and you can quickly switch between months via keyboard shortcuts or your mouse wheel. A Pro version is available that can synchronize with Outlook.

Stickies is a virtual post-it notes program that allows you to place sticky notes on your desktop, which will remain where placed until closed - even across reboots. The appearance of the sticky notes can be customized in color, font, transparency and other aspects. The notes can be sent across a networked and also synchronized with friends, imported/exported, sent by email and attached to application windows. You can choose to hide or show all notes with a single click from the tray and also recover notes that have been deleted in the past. Stickies can be hidden (sent to sleep) for a certain period, or until a specified date and time, to act as a reminder. Stickies is probably one of the best sticky note program you can find, it is small, well documented and comes with many useful features.

Note-It lets you add one or more sticky notes to your desktop. The notes can be of different color on optionally be kept on top of all other windows. The notes can be saved, emailed or printed, otherwise they will be deleted on the next reboot (or when they are closed). It also offers special notes, which allow you to display the current time, computer memory usage or drive space usage. Notes can be minimized to icon size to save space.

M-Minder is a simple program that can remind you of important events whenever your computer boots for the first time of the day. It supports single events, as well as recurring events, and you can choose to be reminded X days in advance for a specific event. The program is easy to use and has a simple, unsophisticated interface. However it is only useful if you have the habit of shutting down your computer each night - M-Minder will only remind you when the computer boots, if you do not reboot on the day a reminder is scheduled you will miss the event.

PrestoNotes lets you create virtual notes on your desktop, that can be hidden or shown as needed. Each note can be customized in color and font, and even include an image files. Furthermore, you can set recurring alarms that are associated with a note, update or launch a local file when the note changes and more. PrestoNotes also includes a small email checker, that can notify you when new mail arrives in your POP account. The program runs in the system tray and lets you manage all active notes from a main interface, that allows you to easily show or hide any note.

UK Kalender is a straightforward calendar and ToDo application with a solid set of features and an easy to use interface. It provides weekly, monthly and yearly views, and allows you to create simple or recurring reminders with optional alarm and custom color choice. Events can also be associated with a document, or launch a command. UK Kalender can optionally export selected calendar views to CSV or nicely formatted HTML (based on customizable templates). Additional features includes customizable snooze settings, custom event categories, hidden events, integrated backup and more.

AM-Notebook Lite is a system tray utility that provides an easy way to keep notes, TODOs and other data. It offers a tree-style notes manager with support for text formatting and inserted images or objects. In addition, it integrates an alarm feature, that allows you to associate selected notes with a reminder, and a built-in backup option that saves your notes to a zip file. A more powerful shareware version is available. Nonetheless AM-Notebook Lite makes a good tool to manage your occasional notes.

MiniReminder is a small and simple program to remind yourself of important yearly events like birthdays, anniversaries, renewals, etc. You can specify how many days in advance the reminder should be triggered, add short comments and customize the colors. The program can start automatically and hides in the tray until there a reminder is due.

EverNote is an all-in-one notes organizer that enables you to keep track of notes, To-Do items, memos, sketches, website snippets and more. It integrates with Internet Explorer and Firefox, allowing you to add website excerpts, source code snippets and other items directly from your browser. You can choose to sort your notes into categories, password protect them, export them to XML and more. EverNote supports several notes templates, which allow you to add T-Do lists, Excel-like spread sheets for expenses (that automatically calculate a total), phone notes, contact information and shopping lists, in addition to regular text notes or handwritten notes (via mouse or pen tablet). The program supports HTML content, rich text and various image formats. A Pro version is available that adds synchronization via USB drives, handwriting recognition ad more - these features are enabled to try for 60 days.

Hott Notes enables you to place virtual sticky notes on your desktop to remind you of upcoming tasks, things to do or any other information that you want to keep handy. The program supports regular notes, alarm notes, checklist notes and even freehand scribble notes. You can color coordinate the notes to your preference, using font sizes of your choice and also set a transparency level to blend them with your desktop background. If you prefer to keep your desktop clean, you can also hide all or selected notes, and manage them via the supplied notes manager interface, archive older notes and crumble (delete) the ones you no longer need. Other features include resizing of notes, automatic backup and animation effects.

Sticker Lite is a simple sticky note program, that allows you to keep information on your desktop. Just click on the tray icon to create a new sticky note... The program allows you to set a priority for each note, apply transparency and customize note appearance in color and font. You can also quickly hide the notes from your desktop, and set a default color scheme for new notes. Other features include auto-saving of notes, rich text support, lock/unlock of notes and more.

Alarm is a digital alarm clock that you can set to display a message and play a sound or music file (.mp3, .wav or .mid) at a time of your choice. The alarm message can be displayed in a small pop-up window or in full screen mode which cannot be overlooked. The program offers a configurable snooze timer and customizable LED colors for the time display.

WinAlarm is a small and easy to use reminder program that can pop up an alert box at specified times, reminding you of things that need to be done. You can set up one-time reminders or recurring events that will remind you every day, week or year. The program comes with a nice interface, and offers color coded (customizable) notification windows with an option to snooze the notification for X minutes if needed.

Quicknote is a small, virtual scrapbook to write down an occasional thought, a plan for the day or an Internet URL. When not in use, the program hides as a tiny bar on top of your desktop, and when you hold your mouse over it, the interface will appear. You can type or copy/paste bits of text and even scribble down simple drawings. The program also offers some additional features, including an option to start frequently run programs, encrypt secret texts and even change the system volume by hotkeys. It also includes an integrated Task-Manager, that allows you to set reminders for selected notes, and can also shut down your PC at specified times. The interface colors can be customized to fit your personal preference and the program also supports transparency under XP/2000.

Talking Alarm Clock can remind you of important dates and events by using a popup dialog, sound notification or Microsoft Agent character animation. You can schedule one-time reminders or recurring events (daily, monthly, weekly) and also limit alarms to certain Windows users. The program runs in the system tray and offers an attractive and easy to use interface that allows you to add new alarms easily.

Efigio Personal Organizer is a simple personal To-Do list that allows you to add new items to your list an assign a priority status to each as well as a short note. The list is color coded based on the priority status. The program runs in the system tray.

Shock Sticker enables you to place virtual sticky notes on your desktop to keep track of notes or to be reminded of upcoming events. The stickers can be customized in size and color, support text formatting, and can be minimized to a small title bar. The program supports password protected stickers, allowing you to keep private notes that can only be viewed with the proper password. Notes can also be hidden from view and send to other Shock Sticker users on the network. Other features include customizable color schemes, a recycle manager, adjustable transparency, note printing, alarm notes and more.

Kana Reminder allows you to set alarms or run programs at a specified time. The reminder can be password protected and set to popup automatically. You can choose to set reminders on a daily, weekly, monthly or one-time basis. Additional features include sound notification, color coded reminder categories, program launches (reminder specific) and more. The program is easy to use, comes with an attractive interface and runs in the system tray.

ZeroTimer is a small countdown timer that enables you to maintain a list of countdown events that can be activated as needed. At the end of the countdown you can be notified via popup window or .wav sound alert, and you can also monitor the countdown progress from a dynamic tray icon that slowly changes color as the countdown progresses. ZeroTimer provides a customizable interface with 3 ready-to-use skins to choose from.

Time Trek is a simple countdown clock with some additional features, including multiple alarms, with ability to play MP3, WAV and MIDI files as alarm sounds. The Countdown/Countup timer allows you to set a date and time, and it will display the detailed year, month etc. statistics, down the the last second. Time Trek can support multiple users, and supports both US and non-US time/date formats. It also includes an optional analog clock display.

TimeSentry is a small and simple calendar with built-in time synchronization and personal reminder options. In addition, it offers a time/date calculator to calculate the difference between two dates and times to the millisecond, and also some additional system information like uptime, UTC time and more.

Crawler Notes allows you to place virtual sticky notes on your desktop, in order to remember appointments, maintain a list of things to do, or to simply write down a note to yourself. You can choose between different note colors and font styles, hide/show the notes, search through all your notes and optionally synchronize your notes with an online service.

SwizzTool allows you to create personal reminders and automated tasks that can launch a program (file command) at a specified date/time, weekday or after a countdown has elapsed. The tasks also include options to reboot your computer, print a document, add text to the clipboard and more. In addition, SwizzTool includes a small memo pad with alarm features, integrated web search functions and a small clipboard manager that lets you save up to three clipboard items. The interface is very basic, no bells and whistles, but offers some very useful functionalities.

Task Reporter is a simple task manager with an easy to use interface that enables you to keep track of your ongoing tasks. You can organize your tasks into several categories, mark them when they are started or completed and also add rich text notes to further describe the steps involved in the task.

ExerciseMinder is a tool designed for people that spent most of their day on the computer. It runs in the system tray and reminds you every 30 minutes to perform some stretching exercises to prevent back pain or stiffness. The exercise reminder includes a suggested exercise along with a photo and short instructions. You can customize the time interval and also pause the reminders.

NoteIT is a personal notes organizer that runs in the system tray and provides quick access to write down and save notes. The program offers an easy to use interface with note items organized in a tree view. You can send a note by email, password protect selected items and also backup your entire collection of notes. Additional features include a search option, text-to-speech conversion and print support.

Birthday is a small and easy to use birthday reminder application. You can add a list of names and their dates of birth and it will automatically remind you when the birthday is due and d also calculate the current age of the person. In addition, it offers information on the star sign and Chinese Astrology based on the date of birth. You can customize the reminders, include email links and more.

Vinade Reminder is a personal reminder tool, that can send reminders to your cellphone, pager, email, or display them as popup dialog on your desktop. It supports recurring reminders (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) as well as one-time reminders. A step-by-step wizard guides you through the creation of each reminder. Vinade Reminder comes pre-configured with most major cellular phone providers - there is no charge for the SMS message (except for what your phone company may charge you).

Fast Note is small program to create post-it style sticky notes for your desktop It runs as a system tray icon and opens a small, re-sizable notes window when clicked. Just type any note and close and automatically have it on your desktop. Notes can also be hidden and they re-activated from the tray icon. Fast Note also includes a small to-do list. Additional features include alarm option, transparency support and more.

ShirusuPad is a small program with a stylish interface, that allows you to keep notes of any kind. The notes are organized in tabs, and a unique feature allows you to simply drag a note onto your desktop, to turn it into a desktop sticky note. ShirusuPad supports clickable URLs, password protected notes, import/export of note content and more. The program also comes with a ToDo list and reminder option that can be used with notes or ToDo list items, and alert you at a user specified time. A unique little note keeping tool with a good set of features.

Desktop Calendar places a customizable calendar on your desktop, that can optionally be integrated with a monthly wallpaper scheme. It offers 3 different sizes, from compact to large, and allows you to quickly enter upcoming events by simply clicking on the date. Once the date is due, you will be notified with a popup dialog. The calendar can be customized in color style and position. Additional features include import and export of your events, as well as a event manager to display all entries at once.

Snippet is a simple text editor designed for organizing and saving text. It includes a text editor with search and print capabilities, and keeps it's text files organized in a tree list. Snippet is ideal for saving Internet addresses, user names, passwords, email accounts, or any other bits of information that you might need later but leave scattered in files on your hard disk.