Mindful Lite 2.2

Mindful 2.2  is a very considerable in degree program which you remember important facts that are often too easy to forget. That is why its two main features consist of an Event Reminder and a Password Manager. However, Mindful also provides many other related tools including a perpetual mini calendar, date calculator, random password generator, countdown timer and keyboard string parser.

Mindful starts automatically each time you start your computer. When minimized, it remains in the notification area (system tray) ready for you to use at any time. From there you can restore it by clicking its icon or by pressing its activation global hot key (default is CTRL+SHIFT+M). When you right-click the Mindful icon in the notification area, a shortcut menu appears with commands to access Mindful's main features and tools directly.

Mindful is simple, but loaded with features and tools that can be used day after day, all year long. It is optimized to consume very few resources and resides in the notification area when minimized.

Many software companies will charge you more for a software product that does only one of the two main features found in Mindful. But Mindful combines these two major features and many other related tools into one inexpensive software product that will not break your bank or consume much of your so precious computer resources.

Major Features:

1. Mindful as an Event Reminder 
   
   • Roll forward clearance
     
     • By default, a recurring event is automatically rolled forward to its next occurrence each time an occurrence of that event passes. However, since each event must be cleared before it can be rolled forward, you can prevent this default behavior from happening on specific events simply by turning off the auto-clear option of those events.
     • For example, you may want to confirm that you paid a monthly bill before the event for that bill is rolled forward to the next month. In this case, the event will continue to appear in your list of events due for notice (even if the actual event date has passed) until you manually clear that event.
     • Recurring events can also be manually rolled forward to their next occurrence ahead of time as needed. For example, you may have created an event for the due date of a monthly bill but you don't want to see this item at the top of your event list once you have sent a payment for that bill, even if the bill due date has not yet passed. By manually rolling the event forward to its next occurrence, this item is immediately repositioned further down in your event list according to its next occurrence date.
   • Event age calculator
     
     • The age of a person (or event) can be calculated automatically and displayed in the description of an event simply by adding the year of birth (or original event year) in square brackets into the event name.
     • For example, if the name of an event is set to "John's [1967] Birthday", this item will appear as "John's 42nd Birthday" in your list of events (assuming of course in this case that John's next birthday will occur in 2009).
   • One-time events: Mindful also supports one-time events that can be deleted automatically once passed or kept for future reference, according to your preferences. Keeping a one-time event for future reference can be useful to remember when was the last time the event occurred, such as when was the last time you had an eye exam.
     
   • Event alarms: Event alarms go one step further in notifying you of events. By setting the alarm of an event, you can have an action executed automatically at a precise time on the day the event occurs. Possible actions include displaying a popup window with (or without) a countdown timer for a preset number of minutes, executing a file, or opening an Internet link or URL. A sound is also played when the alarm goes off and when the countdown timer (where applicable) reaches zero.
     
   • Color-coded events: All events in Mindful are color-coded according to their status and their point in time. By default, past-due events appear in bold red, passed (and cleared) events appear in blue, current day events appear in red, events due for notice appear in orange and other future events appear in green in your list of events. You can customize the font color and style of each event status according to your preferences.
     
   • Event notes: Each event can have its own notes. These notes can be useful to remind you of additional information about an event that is not part of the event name itself. For example, the notes for the anniversary of a friend can include their mailing address so you can mail them a birthday card.
2. Mindful as a Password Manager 
   
   • Passwords are sequences of characters that a user must input in order to gain access to a file, application, private account or computer system. Because passwords alone have no real meaning, passwords are referred together with the information to which they relate as 'user accounts' in Mindful.
     
   • A user account includes the information that you need to locate and logon to a specific web site or password-protected software application. Mindful protects this information using a 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard; the kind of encryption adopted as a standard by the US Government.
     
   • The password manager in Mindful provides a secure central repository for all your user accounts. Instead of using the same password over and over again for all your Internet accounts and password-protected software applications, you can use complex passwords that differ between user accounts, making it much safer than using the same password for all your user accounts without the need to remember any of them except your master password, which gives you access to your entire user account list.
     
   • The password manager also includes an auto-logon feature. Mindful allows you to quickly open the link to any of your user accounts’ logon page or form, and then complete your logon simply by pressing a global hot key.
3. Other Useful Mindful Tools
   
   • Mini calendar: Mindful includes a mini perpetual calendar that you can consult at any time while Mindful itself is running (loaded into memory). To display many months at once, simply resize the mini calendar window. As the size of the calendar window increases, more months are added to it. New columns are added as the width of the window increases and new rows are added as the height increases. Mindful remembers the height and width of the calendar window as you resize it, so you don’t have to resize the window again each time it is displayed, even after closing and re-starting Mindful.
   • Date calculator: The date calculator in Mindful has two purposes. It can calculate the number of days between two dates, or calculate a date by adding/subtracting a number of days to/from another date. Change any of the two dates (Date 1 or Date 2) to see the number of days between them in Days, or change Days to have this value (positive or negative) added to Date 1 with the result displayed in Date 2.
   • Countdown timer: Whether you have something to pick up at the front desk in five minutes, your favorite show starts in ten minutes or you want to let your eggs boil for three minutes, you can count on this simple utility to help you make sure you are on time. Simply set the time to countdown, click Start, and let the timer do the rest. A progress bar is filled as the time progresses and a sound is played when the timer reaches zero.
   • Random password generator: The Random Password Generator in Mindful allows you to generate complex random passwords.

Enhancements:

•   Fix:
• • On startup, Mindful main window is displayed regardless of user preferences and whether or not any events are due for notice.
  • In the cases where the main window is displayed while it should not, the window can not be minimized until the user first clicks the Mindful icon in the notification area.
•   Enhancement:
• • Each the sample file is opened from its original (default) location, a message to summarize what the sample file is about is displayed.
    
  • The message also indicates what the master password of the sample file is originally set to.

Requirements:

• PC Edition (Mindful or Mindful Lite):
• • 486DX, 66MHz or higher processor
  • Windows® 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista
  • 7MB available RAM recommended
  • 3MB available hard disk space
• U3 Edition (Mindful or Mindful Lite):
• • Personal Computer running Windows® XP or Vista
  • 7MB available RAM recommended
  • U3 smart device with 3MB available disk space