Abstract: Files in active use may be detected. Files related to the active files may also be determined. A set of active files and related files may be automatically synchronized to one or more cloud-based storage services. A user may be provided with access to the related file set using any device having access to the cloud-based storage service.

Abstract: A facility for enhancing the information available for contact entry stored by a personal information manager (“PIM”) is described. After the PIM is installed, the facility installs an enhanced contact manager program (“ECM”) as an add-in module to the personal information manager. The first time after the ECM is executed, the facility copies contact entries stored by the PIM to a data store maintained by the ECM. Each time the ECM is executed, for each contact entry stored by the PIM that was opened since the previous time the ECM was executed, the facility recopies the contact entry to the data store maintained by the ECM.