Osmo

Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In its current state the organizer is quite convenient to use - for example, the user can perform nearly all operations using the keyboard. Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet the user's preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which uses a plain XML database to store all personal data.

project page at sourceforge.net

Features

Currently, Osmo has the following features:

• General:
  • compact interface
  • configurable GUI layout
  • encrypted private data backup
• Calendar:
  • day notes with text attributes (italic, bold, underline, etc.)
  • date calculator
  • built-in full year calendar
  • compact mode
  • auxiliary calendars for next and previous month
  • basic iCalendar support (import/export)
  • integration with Tasks and Contacts modules
• Tasks:
  • advanced reminder
  • alarm actions per task (commands, sounds, etc.)
  • tasks list printing
  • quick search
  • category filter
  • due date modification on the fly
  • basic iCalendar support (export)
  • date dependent task coloring
• Contacts:
  • robust search functionality
  • birthdays browser
  • addresses location on the map using Google Maps
  • basic import/export filters (csv, xhtml)
• Notes:
  • handy notes selector
  • category filter
  • quick search
  • optional encryption using user-defined password
  • text attributes (italic, bold, underline, etc.)

Please note that works in progress, so you can expect much more in the future.

Reviews

• "Osmo PIM: The Strong, Silent and Incredibly Capable Type" - short review written by Jack M. Germain
• "Osmo - A Free Personal Information Manager For Linux"
• "Osmo: Malý linuxový organizér" short review by Adam Saleh (in Czech)
• Osmo quick review, called "Personal Organizer - Osmo" by Bosha (in Russian)
• "How To Organize Calendar, Tasks Manager, Address Book And Notes Modules The Easy Way" by Umar Anjum
• "OSMO" article by Lyl Ambda (in French)
• "OSMO: Your friendly personal organizer" short review by Jack Wallen
• "Osmosis" - an article by Frank Wieduwilt featuring Osmo 0.2.4 (Linux Magazine, Issue 101, 4/2009)
• "OSMO: an Ubuntu PIM for the Simple-Minded" article by Jon Jermey
• A short review of Osmo by Dmitri Popov in "Puppy Powered" article (Linux Magazine, Issue 99, 2/2009)
• Osmo has been featured in the Linux Format magazine 2/2008 (LXF HotPicks section) by Graham Morrison
• A nice article called "Osmo: A daily organizer" by Susan Linton describes most features of Osmo 0.1.6

News

2010-03-31: version 0.2.10

• Optional horizontal (netbook-friendly) GUI
• Search capability added for tasks and notes list
• Configurable date format in calendar header
• Options and About tabs are moved to separate windows
• Read-only mode and customizable font for notes
• Statistics for selected text in notes
• Many GUI improvements
• Added translations: en_GB, da, bg
• Updated translations: cs, es, jp, pl, it, de, fr, hu, nl, zh_cn

2009-08-21: version 0.2.8

• Encrypted data backup
• Exporting tasks to iCal file
• Text attributes are handled now in day notes editor
• Default alarm sound for task reminder
• Option to ignore weekend days in date calculator
• Added new calendar marker for birthdays
• Locale settings are used by default
• Slightly improved iCal support
• Many small improvements and fixes
• Added translations: uk
• Updated translations: it, fr, ru, jp, tr, cs, nl, es, pl

read full changelog...

Screenshots

Dependencies

Required packages:

• GTK+ - The GIMP Toolkit library, version >= 2.12
• LibXML 2 library, version >= 2.0.0

Optional packages:

• Libnotify library, version >= 0.4.4
• Libgtkhtml2 library, version >= 2.2.0
• Libical library, version >= 0.33
• Libtar library, version >= 1.2.10
• Libgringotts library, version >= 1.2.1
• Libsyncml library, version >= 0.4.0

Download

Browse files on Source Forge

The latest tarball is osmo-0.2.10.tar.gz (832 kB) - sha1sum: aa4b3dda78aa6982e5bc580caa58d8c540495406

Osmo package is available in the following distributions:

Arch Linux Debian Fedora

FreeBSD Gentoo OpenBSD

OpenSuse PuppyLinux Slackware

Ubuntu VectorLinux Zenwalk

iRex DR800 port by Iñigo Serna is located here.

Subversion Access

Please check SVN trunk *before* submitting a bug. Use following command to get the bleeding-edge version of Osmo:

svn co https://osmo-pim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/osmo-pim/trunk osmo

Usage

Osmo is standalone GUI-based program, so just run and have fun. However, there are a few command line options:

Usage:
  osmo [OPTION...]

Help Options:
  -?, --help            Show help options

Application Options:
  -c, --calendar        Show small calendar window
  -e, --check           Check for events since last run
  -d, --days            Number of days to check forward for events (default: 0)
  -s, --config=PATH     Set absolute path for settings and data files
  -t, --tinygui         Modify GUI to use Osmo on low resolutions

Translation Statistics

Osmo supports following languages (status for 2010-03-31):

bg: 99%	ca: 79%	cs: 100%
da: 94%	de: 92%	el: 79%
en_GB: 100%	es: 100%	fi: 79%
fr: 100%	hu: 92%	it: 96%
ja: 100%	lt: 65%	nl: 100%
pl: 100%	pt: 62%	ru: 84%
sv: 78%	tr: 92%	uk: 82%
zh_CN: 93%

The template file (osmo.pot) can be found here for those who want to add a new language.

TODO

Here is our TODO list (entries are in random order):

• iCal subscriptions
• Distributed personal data support
• Events/Contacts printing support
• Documentation
• Sharing personal data with Evolution/Google calendar/etc (OpenSync ?)

If you can implement any item on this list, don't hesitate to send us a patch.

Donate

Osmo is developed in our limited free time, so if you like Osmo and want to help us towards the implementation of missing features and making Osmo better PIM software please consider a donation via PayPal:

€ EUR

If you donate, please tell us what is your favourite (and not implemented yet) feature, so we will increase its priority :)

Donations list

2011-08-14    David Abbott
2011-06-09    Michael Puls                    2011-06-06    Zoe Quilter
2011-04-22    Werner Kleyn                    2011-04-13    Dmitry Korzhevin
2011-04-07    Devon Brewer                    2010-12-22    Tagoror Networks, S.L.
2010-11-06    Christoph Wickert               2010-08-04    Brian Durant
2010-05-20    Devon Brewer                    2010-04-10    Nasef Khan
2009-07-28    Ladislav Bodnar                 2008-09-02    Jerome Presson

Thank you for supporting Osmo!

Feedback

We are interested in users opinions, translations and feature requests. If you found a bug, please report it using SourceForge Bug Tracker. The bug report should have included Osmo version or revision number (for SVN builds), steps needed to reproduce bug and additional example files if required. Also, you could be interested in subscribing our mailing list for discussion of use and development of Osmo or reading development microblog on twitter.

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