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KOrganizer is a several things. It is a calendar. It is a program to
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keep track of your appointments. It is a prioritized todo list. It
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coordinates scheduling between different people or groups. In short,
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it is a program which tries to help you keep your life organized,
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hence the simple, yet appropriate name. You may have encountered
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similar programs for both UNIX and Windows such as plan, Netscape
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Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Ecco Pro. All of these programs fall
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under the same general category of "PIM," or Personal Information
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Manager, and they all more or less try to do the same things, though
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often with different angles of approach.
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KOrganizer is the first free PIM for Unix which implements the
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vCalendar protocol for personal data interchange. This
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vendor-independent, open standard allows different programs and
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devices to share/synchronize appointment and calendar information
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without proprietary standards. The data is stored in ASCII and is
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easily human-readable. While some Windows programs have implemented a
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limited import/export ability for their native formats to vCalendar,
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KOrganizer's native file format on disk is vCalendar, so it bypasses
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this middle-step entirely. It also allows you to easily access your
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data without the program itself, in the spirit of other UNIX programs.
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