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What I am looking for is a computer application, preferably one which would sync with Thunderbird (but not required), that will maintain a list of my contacts (email, address, phones, spouse's name, kids' names, birthdays, etc.).

The application should also be able to put personalized reminders and link them to a particular contact (i.e., reminder about birthday, reminder about phone call). It will also be great to have an option to leave notes for each reminder before and/or after an event takes place (i.e., sent greeting card to the contact for birthday) and see history of such notes for individual contacts.

I don't care much if this application can work on a mobile phone. The main requirement is for it to work on my laptop and potentially sync data if I need to work on another computer.

Open source would be preferred as I need this for personal purposes (not business).

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My first instinct would be to try Mozilla Lightning. Thunderbird itself is a pretty decent contact manager; this just adds calendar and scheduling.

Alternatives would include MS Outlook, Windows Live Mail, GNOME Evolution, or KDE Kontact. This type of software is generally called a Personal Information Manager (PIM).

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I do have Lightning, but it does not allow (at least I am not aware how to achieve that) to tie reminders to particular contacts and leave notes for those contacts from time to time. Others that you mentioned seem to be similar to Lightning. Thanks for the info, but currently I don't see that any of these applications can solve my problem. – Vasiliy Jan 2 '12 at 20:40
No, nothing that is so closely interconnected between contacts and schedules. That's closer to CRM software, really, but that's obviously geared towards a business-customer approach. – Bacon Bits Jan 2 '12 at 22:57
One option is Highrise by 37signals. But they seem a bit pricey for my needs and probably too much on features that I may not need currently. – Vasiliy Jan 7 '12 at 19:52

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