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'''Kontact''' is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.
It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.</translate>'''
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The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
== Components == <!--T:5-->
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KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.
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Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.
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These programs together form Kontact:
* [[Special:myLanguage/Akregator|Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
* [[Special:myLanguage/KAddressBook/index|KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
* [[Special:myLanguage/KMail|KMail]] - Mail client
* [[Special:myLanguage/KNotes|KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
* [[Special:myLanguage/KOrganizer|KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling, Journal
* [[Special:myLanguage/Summary|Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact
* [[Special:myLanguage/KJots|KJots]] - Your ideas organized in a Notebook
==Where to get help== <!--T:9-->
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Documentation for Kontact is [https://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kontact/index.html available here].<br />
The KDE community forum is [https://forum.kde.org/ here.]
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There is a mailing list at
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* '''kdepim-users''' - for users of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, ...) [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users subscribe to kdepim-users] [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&r=1&w=2 archive of kdepim-users]. A team of developers and users aim to give answers as quickly as possible


Kontact suite unites mature and proven KDE PIM applications under one roof. Thanks to the powerful KParts technology, existing applications are seamlessly integrated into one.
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and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat


The components of KDE Kontact are tailored to work well with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag-and-drop between appointment handling, task lists and contacts. KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central addressbooks and meeting scheduling.
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*for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact


In short: KDE Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
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{{KontactInstall|Kontact}}


== Components ==
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These programs can be integrated into Kontact:
* [[Akregator]] - Read your favorite feeds
* [[KAddressBook]] - Manage your contacts
* [[KMail]] - Mail client
* [[KNode]] - Your usenet mail reader
* [[KNotes]] - Sticky notes for your Desktop
* [[KOrganizer]] - Calendar and scheduling
* [[Ktimetracker]] - Track how much time you spend on various tasks
* [[Summary]] - Summary screen in Kontact


... has to be completed
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* [https://kontact.kde.org/ Kontact website]
* [https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=pim All the manuals for KDE PIM]


== See also ==
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* [[Tutorials/Kontact]]
[[Category:Office]]
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Latest revision as of 16:49, 27 July 2021

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 Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE, but can be used with other systems as well.

It supports email, address books, calendars, tasks, news feeds and much more.

The Kontact suite is the powerful PIM solution of KDE that handles your email, agenda, contacts and other 'personal' data together in one place. Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.

Components

KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup has access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central address books and meeting scheduling.

Kontact consists of the Kontact PIM back end and the graphical applications connecting to the back end. Special 'agents' (say a facebook agent) are employed to get new data in and merge it in the existing data set (for example contacts, news). Due to the clean infrastructure new agents are easy to develop.

These programs together form Kontact:

Where to get help

Documentation for Kontact is available here.
The KDE community forum is here.

There is a mailing list at

and for urgent help, an IRC channel on Libera Chat

  • for users and developers of Kontact - #kontact

Download

Kontact is available in all major Linux distribution repositories, as tarballs, and soon a Flatpak version will also be available. Ancient versions were compatible with Windows, the Kontact team is looking for help to improve Windows support. For more information look at the Kontact download page.

Installation Instructions

If you need help to install Kontact, look at this tutorial about how to install KDE software.


More Information

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