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[[Image:SharpElectronicOrganiser-open.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Opened Sharp Electric Organizer model (sold as Sharp Wizard in the US) model ZQ-770.]]<br />
[[Image:Casio Digital Diary SF-R20 open.JPG|right|thumb|Casio SF-R20 Digital Diary featuring 256&nbsp;KB RAM, from around 1993.]]<br />
[[Image:Casio BN-40A 2.jpg|right|thumb|Casio Business Navigator BN-40A.]]<br />
An '''electronic organizer''' (or '''electric organizer''') is a small [[calculator]]-sized computer, often with an built-in [[diary]] application and other functions such as an address book and calendar, replacing paper-based [[personal organizer]]s. Typically, it has a small [[alphanumeric]] keypad and an [[liquid crystal display|LCD]] screen of one, two, or three lines.<br />
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They were very popular especially with businessmen during the 1990s, but because of the advent of [[personal digital assistant]]s and [[palmtop PC]]s in the 1990s, as well as [[smartphone]]s in the 2010s, all of which have a larger set of features, electronic organizers are mostly seen today for research purposes. One of the leading research topics being the study of how electronics can help people with mental disabilities use this type of equipment to aid their daily life.<ref name="Bryen_2007"/> Electronic organizers have more recently been used to support people with Alzheimer's disease to have a visual representation of a schedule.<ref name="Imbeault_2011"/><br />
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==History==<br />
The electronic diary or organizer was first patented by Indian businessman [[Satyan Pitroda|Satyanarayan Pitroda]] in 1975.<ref name="CHM"/><br />
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==Casio digital diary==<br />
Casio digital diaries were produced by [[Casio]] in the early and mid 1990s, but have since been entirely superseded by mobile phones and PDAs.<br />
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==Other electronic organizers ==<br />
While Casio was a major role player in the field of electronic organizers there were many different ideas, patent requests, and manufacturers of electronic organizers.<ref name="US5929774A"/> [[Rolodex]], widely known for their index card holders in the 1980s, [[Sharp Electronics]], mostly known for their printers and audio visual equipment, and lastly Royal electronics were all large contributors to the electronic organizer in its heyday.<br />
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===Features===<br />
* Telephone directory<br />
* Schedule keeper: Keep track of appointments.<br />
* Memo function: Store text data such as price lists, airplane schedules, and more.<br />
* To do list: Keep track of daily tasks, checking off items as you complete them.<br />
* World time: Find out the current time in virtually any location on the globe.<br />
* Secret memory area: The secret memory area keeps personal data private. Once a password is registered, data is locked away until the password is used to access the secret area.<br />
* Alarm<br />
* Metric conversion function: Conversion between metric units and another measurement unit.<br />
* Currency conversion function<br />
* Game: Some machines included a game such as Poker or Blackjack.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Electronic dictionary#Handheld dictionaries or PEDs|Pocket electronic dictionary]]<br />
* [[Personal digital assistant]] (PDA)<br />
* [[Smartphone]]<br />
* [[Pocket computer]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name="CHM">{{Cite web |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/318/1716 |title=Electronic Diary patent - CHM Revolution}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Bryen_2007">{{Cite journal |author-last1=Bryen |author-first1=Diane Nelson |author-last2=Carey |author-first2=Allison |author-last3=Friedman |author-first3=Mark |date=February 2007 |title=Cell Phone Use by Adults With Intellectual Disabilities |journal=Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1352/1934-9556(2007)45[1:cpubaw]2.0.co;2 |pmid=17428123 |issn=1934-9491}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Imbeault_2011">{{Cite journal |author-last1=Imbeault |author-first1=Hélène |author-last2=Pigot |author-first2=Hélène |author-last3=Bier |author-first3=Nathalie |author-last4=Gagnon |author-first4=Lise |author-last5=Marcotte |author-first5=Nicolas |author-last6=Giroux |author-first6=Sylvain |author-last7=Fülüp |author-first7=Tamas |date=2011 |editor-last1=Abdulrazak |editor-first1=Bessam |editor-last2=Giroux |editor-first2=Sylvain |editor-last3=Bouchard |editor-first3=Bruno |editor-last4=Pigot |editor-first4=Hélène |editor-last5=Mokhtari |editor-first5=Mounir |title=Interdisciplinary Design of an Electronic Organizer for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease |journal=Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities |volume=6719 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |language=en |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |pages=137–144 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_18 |isbn=978-3-642-21535-3}}</ref><br />
<ref name="US5929774A">{{Cite patent |title=Combination pager, organizer and radio |gdate=1997-06-13 |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US5929774A/en}}</ref><br />
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