Task and Schedule Management - Personal

As a small business owner, you are the CEO, you are making sales, you are running operations and you are handling mail. How do you make sure that in all this hustle and bustle you don't lose track of all the tasks that need to be done? And make sure that they get done in a timely manner and that nothing falls through the cracks?

A personal information manager (PIM) is a type of software that functions as a personal organizer. As an information management tool, a PIM's purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of your tasks and schedule. A PIM typically provides the following features:

• Email
• Address books
• Task lists
• Significant calendar dates
• Appointments and meeting
• Alerts and reminders

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird provides the email and address book functionality. Thunderbird aims to be a simple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client.

Mozilla Lightning extension to Thunderbird

Combining your email application with your calendar is convenient if you send and receive meeting invitations through email. Mozilla Lightning extension to Thunderbird has calendar and task management features.

Lightning version 0.9 works with Thunderbird version 2. Therefore, you need to install Thunderbird email and address book software first. You can download Mozilla Thunderbird 2 from here. Once you have installed Thunderbird 2 successfully and configured it to work with your email server, you can download the Mozilla Lightning 0.9 add-on from here.

Please read our Precautions FAQ before downloading.