If you don’t run Wine, you’re out of luck. If you do, get EssentialPIM version 9.4.1 from here, https://filehippo.com/download_essentialpim/9.4.1/. Detailed information can be found on its website, https://www.essentialpim.com/component/ ... Itemid=101. The download I suggest works under wine, and during setup will offer the choice of generating either an “installed” or portable application. If you want portable, create a folder to house it before running setup.
The attached screenshot hints at its various modules which most will find self-explanatory. Mail offers to setup email accounts. There’s a tool on the Menu for generating (I assume) secure Passwords; and the Password module offers to keep track of your User Names and Passwords. Beyond that I don’t know. I the absence of encryption –perhaps I haven’t discovered it yet-- I probably won’t use those modules.
- EssentialPIM GUI
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Still, for me, the name EssentialPIM, remains spot-on.
Today is Garbage Day. I recall putting the garbage cans on the street last night. Unfortunately, Garbage Day comes twice each week. There used to be once-a-week TV programs everyone watched that helped temporally orient everyone. Now there are thousands of channels and nothing to watch.
Retirement, circumstances and perhaps biology combine to obscure my realization of what activities may require prompt action. Retirement means there’s seldom any urgency to get organized to do anything. Covid 19 means there’s seldom anywhere to go. So one day is pretty much identical with every other day and seldom a need not to allow mood alone to alter the timing of an habitual routine.
There’s also a possible biological flaw having created a stumbling block. My circadian clock is out of wake. At 2:00 AM I am wide awake and clear headed. That seems to be hereditary. My family jokes about origins in Transylvania and being “Children of the Night”. It is not so funny when, prior to retirement, I had to be miles from home and alert ‘first thing in the morning’ by someone else’s definition. And although infrequent, there still are such days.
So what I want to know the first thing each morning after I’ve routinely poured my first cup of coffee and turned on my computer: Is this a day I am free to dawdle or must I ‘get my ass in gear’. Then being ‘fogging headed’ it doesn’t occur to me to open a Calendar/To-do lists application. But later in the day, it does occur to me that an application which auto-starts and displays at boot-up would be a good idea.
EssentialPIM was discovered after I had a problem with Osmo, viewtopic.php?p=8640#p8640, I’ve attached a pet which will create a menu-entry and facilitate adding EssentialPIM to your Startup folder. You’ll probably have to edit one file. The pet installs a file named “EssentialPIM” to /root/my-applications/bin. It’s a bash-script which opens the program under wine. It’s critical line is:
wine.sh /mnt/home/xp-apps/essentialpim/EssentialPIM.exe
I’m running portable wine, and on my computer portable-windows programs are located at /mnt/home/xp-apps/. EssentialPIM.exe is the name given by its publisher. If you’re running wine (rather than wine-portable) the Linux executable will be just ‘wine’ –without the .sh. Your path to the Windows executable will most likely be different. A template for editing the critical line is:
wine(.sh) /FULL-PATH-TO-CONTAINING-FOLDER/EssentialPIM.exe
If you drag /root/my-applications/bin/EssentialPIM into /root/Startup, select Link(relative) and Save that change, EssentialPIM will greet you as soon as you boot into Puppy. 
You'll get an easily dismissed nag about paying for the Pro version. 
But, you may even find that's worth doing.
