Extending it
Plugins
J-Pilot loads plugins as shared libraries, so a plugin can add a whole application of its own. Three ship with J-Pilot; the rest were written by other people over the years.
Bundled with J-Pilot
Installed by the jpilot-plugins package, or built from the source tree.
Expense
Syncs the Palm Expense application — entries, categories, currencies, and payment types.
KeyRing
An interface to the GNU Keyring Palm encryption application, so your encrypted records are readable on the desktop.
SyncTime
Sets the clock on the Palm device to the desktop's time during a sync. Not the same thing as the SyncTime Palm application.
Writing your own is documented in the plugin manual.
Third-party plugins
Written by other people, and listed here as they were announced. Most are old and unmaintained — expect to do some work to build them against a current J-Pilot.
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2009-02-15
jpilot-icalendar
A standalone program that imports RFC 2445 (iCalendar) events into J-Pilot. To-dos are not supported, and full two-way synchronisation was intended but never finished, so it is an importer rather than a conduit. Its author called it alpha; back up first. Downloads are on SourceForge, last updated in 2013.
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2008-05-27
Pics & Videos
Downloads pictures, photos, and videos from the newer Palm Treo and Palm Centro phones. Reads both internal flash and the SD card.
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2002-02-06
jpilot-backup
Jason Day's enhanced backup plugin. It keeps up to 99 archived backups, takes them automatically — every sync, or daily, weekly, or monthly — and lets you choose which databases to include and which to skip.
Jason's site has gone, but the plugin outlived it: it is still packaged by Fedora. The same page also carried SyncMal, a MalSync client that pulled down web pages for reading later; that one does not appear to have survived.
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2000-10-30
pilot-mailsync
Syncs mail with your Palm. The page it lived on at the University of Bonn no longer resolves.
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2000-03-10
jpilot-Mail
Another way to sync mail with your Palm.
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2000-02-15
JustInTime
A work-around for the SyncTime plugin crashing Palm OS 3.3. The plugin is not broken — Palm OS 3.3 is. You need the Palm application installed as well.
Several of these plugins have outlived the pages they were hosted on. If you have a working copy of one, or a link that still resolves, please say so on the mailing list and it can go back on this page.