Desktop organizer software applications are applications that automatically create useful organizational structures from desktop content, including heterogeneous types of content including email, files, contacts, companies, RSS news feeds, photos, music and chat sessions.
The organization is based on a combination of automated scanning of metadata similar to data mining and manual tagging of content.
The metadata stored in applications is correlated based on a structure for the data type handled by the organizer tool.
Due to the rise of computers for use in communications including email, VoIP applications like Skype, chat, web browsers, blogs, RSS and CRM content relating to companies and contacts is often spread across multiple applications.
Desktop communications organizers collect and correlate information stored in these applications.