Do you hate using Microsoft products?

Do you instead want to use a free, lightweight, easy to use calendar and contact management system?

Well I needed something very lightweight for a project I was working on.

Chrome Web Store under a magnifying glass

Last of all, it needed to be easy and intuitive.

I went looking and I found a little system quickly calledOsmoon Sourceforge.

It fit the bill to a tee.

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The Windows download for this free contact management software is a measly little 4.6MB.

The software is available for Windows or Linux and is released under the GNU General Public License.

select one of the days and enter notes in the text box like so.

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you could grab the timeline icon at the bottom of the screen where you could insert a timeline.

No matter how hard you try you will always be closer to 100MB of memory than 10MB like Osmo.

Next up is the tasks tab.

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They get a due date and a summary.

After you hit theadd new taskbutton you will see this screen where you might fill in the information.

There is a check box to enable a sound notification when the task has come due.

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It won’t light up unless you change theno due datebox.

you’re free to also choose priorities including high, medium and low.

Nothing revolutionary but very lean and awesome.

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There is ashow birthdaysbutton that will show you all the birthdays at a glance for easy reference.

The button looks like a present up there in the task bar.

The notes tab gives you a place to…um…write and read notes.

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Then we have our options.

We all love our options right?

you could choose your fonts, color highlighting and more for each tab independently.

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It turned out well!

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