PERSONAL ORGANISER EQUIPMENT

Location-dependant personal organizer apparatus for operation with a memory for storing a plurality of appointment entries, each appointment entry including data specifying a time and a place; the personal organizer comprising: a locating unit capable of determining the location of the personal organizer; a clock capable of determining the present time; an alerting unit for generating an alert to a user; and an alert processor coupled to the memory, the locating unit, the clock and the alerting unit and capable of actuating the alerting unit at a period before the stored time for an appointment entry that is dependant on the stored place for that appointment entry and the determined location of the personal organizer.