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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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.myinfoapp.com/}}
{{Notetaking software}}
Category:Personal information managers