PIM City
The products that won the award in this category are those that extend the Personal Information Manager functionality of the Palm computer in helpful and useful ways.

ListMaker from Synergy Solutions
ListMaker is one of those tiny applications you're likely to forget. It's totally unintrusive and so immediately functional that it almost seems too simple. But we think that the ability to easily, instantly make free-form lists is an essential tool for the Palm computer. We've cheated by trying to make lists in the Memo Pad or by taking up a category in the To Do list, but the Palm computer really needs a general-purpose list-making tool. And ListMaker is just that. With ListMaker, you can keep track of everything: from shopping lists to what to pack on your next vacation. And the just released ListMaker version 1.5 adds hierarchical items, multiple databases, dates, and custom fields. It's like a database engine, but without all the hassle.

ToDo Plus and Memo Plus from Hands High Software
ToDo Plus, now at version 3.0, is a powerful extension to your To Do application. It allows you to alarm any task, attach drawings to tasks (what a win that one is!), filter tasks by due date, and create repeating tasks. Unlike many of the other To Do enhancements, ToDo Plus allows you to HotSync with your normal Palm Desktop.

Like ToDo Plus, Memo Plus allows you to attach drawings and alarms to your memos. More interestingly, it includes the concepts of "templates". With templates, when you create a new memo, you can do so with pre-filled information already created. For example, you can create a template for a lesson plan, or to remind you where you parked your car. The company makes many user-created templates available on their Web site.

DateBk3 from Pimlico Software
DateBk3, also now at version 3.0, is a huge piece of software, especially for a "mere" Date Book extension. But there's nothing mere about this program. The program adds five new views of your dates (weekly, two-week, list view, monthly with icons, and yearly). While it might seem weird that you can get a year view on your Palm device, it is surprisingly interesting to see, at a glance, how busy one month is in comparison to another. DateBk3 links the Date Book database with the To Do database, supports multiple time zones, a daily journal, appointments spanning midnight and lasting more than 24 hours, snooze alarms, and floating events. We can't even begin to go into the more than 50 enhancements DateBk3 adds to the original Date Book application.

There are a few interesting notes. First, DateBk3 got the most reader nominations and the most raves from individuals on the PowerBoards of all our candidates. Second, the developer of DateBk3, C. E. Steuart Dewar, is using the money raised from this application to do something truly unique: he's creating a haven for gorillas en-route to zoos.

One final caution: This is a huge product. If you don't have a "bunchload" of memory free (245K+), you won't be able to use it.