MyInfo

{{Short description|Personal information manager}}

{{Infobox software

| name = MyInfo

| logo = File:Myinfo-icon.png

| screenshot = Myinfo screenshot.png

| screenshot size = 245px

| caption = MyInfo 8

| developer = Milenix Software

| released = {{Start date and age|1999|10|26}}

| latest release version = 8.4{{cite web

|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/blog/myinfo-8-4-released

|title=MyInfo 8.4 released

|date=2024-04-04

|publisher=Milenix Software

|accessdate=2025-03-05

}}

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|04|04}}

| operating system = Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11

| genre = Personal information manager

| license = Proprietary (shareware)

| website = {{URL|https://www.myinfoapp.com/}}

}}

MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications.

MyInfo 7 adds speed improvements, perspectives, updated user interface, multiple attachments per note, multiple sections per notebook and more.{{cite web|url=https://blog.milenix.com/myinfo-7-is-here/|title=MyInfo 7 |date=2021-01-02|publisher=Milenix Software|accessdate=2021-01-02}}

MyInfo 8 introduces dark mode, Markdown-style shortcuts, nested tags, code snippets support, note structure pane, and a new Go To Anything command.{{cite web|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/blog/myinfo-8-0-is-now-available|title=MyInfo 8 |date=2023-05-15|publisher=Milenix Software|accessdate=2023-07-29}}

MyInfo uses both hierarchical, and folder-like structures along with tags, categories and other meta-information for organizing its content. It is one of the several PIM applications for Windows to do so.Smith, Gene,Tagging: people-powered metadata for the social web, New Riders Press, 2008, p.196

MyInfo imports data from different third-party applications, most notably AskSam.{{cite web|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/uses/asksam|title=AskSam Alternative for Windows|date=2021-10-23|accessdate=2021-10-23}}

The software is used as a free-form personal information manager, personal wiki,{{cite web|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/uses/personal-wiki|title=Personal Wiki Software for Windows|date=2021-05-25|accessdate=2021-05-25}} outliner,{{cite web|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/uses/outliner|title=Outliner Software|date=2021-09-09|accessdate=2021-09-09}} personal knowledge base,{{cite web|url=https://www.myinfoapp.com/uses/personal-knowledge-base|title=Personal Knowledge Base|date=2021-09-09|accessdate=2021-09-09}} game master tool, GTD filing system and others.

Awards

Nominated for Best Business Application by Software Industry Conference for their Shareware Industry Awards in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://sic.org/2003nominees.asp |title=SIA Foundation 2003 Nominees and Winners |date=2003-07-19 |publisher=SIA Foundation |accessdate=2014-01-17 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205033027/http://sic.org/2003nominees.asp |archivedate=December 5, 2006 }}

References

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Further reading

{{refbegin}}

  • {{cite book

|first=Jeremy

|last=Wagstaff

|title=Loose Wire: A Personal Guide to Making Technology Work for You

|publisher=Equinox Publishing

|year=2007

|isbn = 978-979-3780-39-9

}}

  • {{cite book

|first=Gene

|last=Smith

|title=Tagging: people-powered metadata for the social web

|publisher=New Riders Press

|year=2008

|isbn=978-0-321-52917-6

|url-access=registration

|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780321529176

}}

  • {{cite web|last=Wagstaff|first=Jeremy|title=An Outliner That Tags|url=http://www.loosewireblog.com/2006/03/an_outliner_tha.html|work=Loose wire|accessdate=30 November 2011|date=16 March 2006}}
  • {{cite web|title=Straighten Up All Personal Information|url=http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/MyInfo--Review-76836.shtml|work=Softpedia|publisher=SoftNEWS SRL|accessdate=21 November 2011|author=Ionut Ilascu|date=21 January 2008}}

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