Ariadne Organizer

Overview

AriadneOrganizer is a fast and powerfull Personal Information manager (PIM) for Windows. It includes outliner, calendar and set of objects to store different kind of information from notes to images, bookmarks and tables.

Summary of Features

The Organizer

Ariadne has five tabbed windows available for you to work in. You can easily navigate to any of the tabbed window via a keyboard shortcuts or single mouse clicks. These windows are named:
  • Data Outline
  • Calendar Day View
  • Calendar Week View
  • Calendar Two Week View
  • Calendar Month View
In the 'Outline' window, you can store, find, organize all kinds of information in an outline of your construction. The elements within that outline are called 'objects'. An Ariadne Data Outline 'object' can be:
  • Particle [a single line of text]
  • Folder [a collection of objects]
  • Comment [a dependent object that permits multiple lines of text with full formatting capabilities]
  • Note [an independent object that permits multiple lines of text with full formatting capabilities]
  • Table
  • Form
  • URL
  • File Shortcut
  • Image
Any object can be given a number of attributes & assignments. The attributes can be any or all of the following:
  • Font [style, size & color - fonts & backgrounds]
  • Read Only
  • Retired
  • Template
The assignments can be any or all of the following:
  • Accelerator [automatically carries title to top group level for one click jump to that object]
  • Prioritized ToDo Function with due date [which automatically appears in the journal on the due day]
  • Icon [automatically placed on the action bar for one click jump from browser to outline object]
  • Category [Your choice. Multiple category assignments are possible]
  • Link [two way & multiple linking is possible]
All objects can be exported to HTML, XML, Directory of folders and files or Ariadne data in any selection or in its entirety. All objects can be moved manually or sorted by a variety of criteria such as:
  • ToDo Priority
  • Text
  • Date Created
  • Date Modified
  • Date Due
  • Font style
  • Color
All objects can be searched for & aggregated in various ways:
  • Search by multiple criteria [and, or, not]
  • Search by Grep [any common denominator, i.e. Category, Appointment, Particles, Notes, Comments, ToDos, Tables, Linked, Images, Bookmarks, Sorting Bins, Icons, Folders, Contacts, Accelerators]
Calendar is designed to manage appointments with different recurrence patterns and data items assigned for certain days, called Journal items. There are 4 views of Calendar:
  • Day view [day view with ToDo's, due items or any Ariadne object assigned to that day]
  • Week view
  • Two week view
  • Month view

In the Calendar, you may add an alarmed 'Appointment' in addition to any other Ariadne object. So for example, you could add a comment to an appointment for notes. You could create an instant ToDo after your appointment & give it a Due Date in the future. Or you can keep a daily Journal (diary or personal blog) in a daily note.

In the 'Day' and 'Week' views, you can see both appointments and other objects, i.e. Todo's, Notes, Bookmarks; whatever you want to focus on for that day. ToDo's that are not done are carried over to the next day until they are marked done.

In the 'Two week' and the 'Month' views, you can see appointments only. However, an icon indicates whether or not you have other elements assigned to that day. A single click on any day jumps you to that day.

You can add appointments or other elements from any view and you can navigate between the various views with shortcut keys or simple mouse clicks.

Ariadne Organizer version 5

Ariadne Organizer is distributed as single executable file that contains install/uninstall, configuration files, binary, sample data and user manual. Simply download and run installation file. Ariadne is backward compatible to the previous commercial version of the program. Non of your existing Ariadne data should be affected during upgrade procedure but we strongly recommend you to backup data before proceeding with upgrade (simple select File | Backup Data menu item).

The Ariadne Organizer User's Group.

Discuss the pros & cons, make suggestions, create a wish list, help newbies, spread the word about the development of this wonderful new software.

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About company

OpenSoft is involved in developing of C++ frameworks and libraries for Windows/MFC. The main focus is outliner controls, graph visualization tools, diagrams and charts. The publisher of Ariadne Organizer, Data Rotunda and Windows Tiler.

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