Essential PIM Free is a free personal information manager which delivers traditional scheduling, to-do list, contact management and a note taker in a downloadable desktop application. All the data can be password protected and you can export and import lots of different data formats to keep stuff synched as necessary. This is the kind of software that does all the PIM tasks, rather than a lot of online services which handle one bit or another. The $39.95 Pro version gives you much more in the way of integration with external applications like Outlook.