FreeMind

Let’s start with this tiny tool, which is very useful in visioning and planning.

If you do not know the concept of mind mapping, you are missing theease of recording your thoughts. Never mind, just start using a mindmapping tool such as FreeMind and advantages will be clear.

A must for visionery managers and leaders.

tmail

Many of us do not realize that there has to be much better ways of task communication than email, phone or fax. Use tmail and you will wonder the ease of managing your operations. Unavoidable for employees of an organization.

trac

Want the simplest Intranet where your departments and employees can express themselves? Use trac.It is also the simplest project and issue management tool that I havecome across. We use it heavily in the organizations I work for.

Dia

My evaluations of simple diagramming, UML or flowchart tools ended with dia.

There are many other free tools that I use - will expand this listgradually. I have not mentioned the obvious ones: OpenOffice, Ubuntuetc.