personal information manager
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- noun
- /ˈpɜrsənl ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən ˈmænɪdʒər/
- Specialized
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gestor de información personal
- Evolution 3.4.4 is a stable and versatile personal information manager for the GNOME project.
Examples
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A personal information manager helps users keep track of their tasks and appointments in one place.
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I have spent all of my professional career making products, including Clickradio, an early Internet music service, and DayMaker, one of the first personal information managers (address book, scheduling, task, notes, etc.) for the Mac.
Blog text (5) -
If you simply need a word processor, spreadsheet, and personal information manager to use on occasional road trips, you may want to consider the new class of subnotebooks; they’re light, handy, and relatively inexpensive.
Academic text (1993) -
Many people rely on a personal information manager to organize their contacts and events effectively.
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Using a personal information manager simplifies the way you manage your daily schedule and important information.
Synonyms
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An app that helps you keep contacts, schedules, and notes
An app that helps you organize contacts, calendars, and tasks across devices
Antonyms
How Feature-Rich
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
personal + information + manager
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'personal' modifies 'information' and 'manager' indicates an agent or tool that manages that information, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it refers to something/someone that organizes a person's data. This structure and meaning are cross-linguistically common and follow regular English formation, making it accessible to a B1 learner (noting that in technical contexts it often denotes a software application).
Etymology
The name personal information manager comes from the paper personal 'organizer' or address book people used to carry to keep contacts and appointments. The word manager shows it helps 'manage' your contacts, calendar and tasks, so the name tells you what the app does.