Re: Projects in Memo and how to keep them organized
jledesma said:
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For me Outlook is difficult and I feel more in control if I have my handheld all the time..... 8)
J:
I used to feel that way, too, undeniably due to the fact that I fell in love (no comments from the peanut gallery, please) with the Palm-PDA; I've been using one since the old Pilot500, in fact.
But I really misused the Palm in some ways, though I have become (like many of you, undoubtedly) a PDA-guru endowed with VAST experience with every Palmgear-downloaded program available. Heck, I make a living at this stuff; I've now trained hundreds of people on the Palm and loaded many of them down with everything from
AN/Agendus to
DB5 to
Bonsai to
LifeBalance to
ShadowPlan to MegaWiki to just plain old Vanilla apps. In hindsight, I've often wondered if I'm just a high-tech huckster of the latest-and-greatest Palm/PC apps; but I've retained clientele consistently, so there must be a kernel of good, solid stuff in "my" products.
Here's my point: I'm either with clients
or in my home office (leisure time excepted, of course); and a couple of hours out of each day I spend supporting all those apps/concepts (both PC-side and Palm) I've sold clients on. The funny thing is that even though -- whilst in my office -- I was sitting in front of a PC, I'd opt to use my Palm for just about everything -- scheduling, entering todos, planning projects, jotting down someday/maybes, e-mail, entering time/billing, et. al.
Why? Like I said... simple
love of the gadget.
I'm sure there are many out there who will say that's just plain
stupid, but I'll bet there are an equal number (remember there are MANY "lurkers" on the myriad web-boards) who do
exactly as I do. Of late, however, I am simply using the Palm for what it was meant for: a portable schedule/reference for use AWAY from the office. And, consequently, I'm using the Desktop/PIM for office-work, keeping it open and working out of there. I get the "big picture" in a way that the Palm can NEVER give me (yes, even with the almighty Tungsten-T's resolution) and I have the benefit of mail-merges, EFFECTIVE word processing, etc.
I'm still a Palm-guru, but sometimes all this neat and admittedly CREATIVE stuff like 37-step MegaWiki-linked, Cyberpoche-enhanced tracking methods [e.g.,
Tag/NXTA + datestamp + @7412SCH + (shortcut - @xxplacexx divided by the square root of the hypotenuse of Datebk5-Piki-Fiki-Wiki³] oft times seems to be a bit overkill.
Don't get me wrong; I'm no Vanilla-palm Crusader by any means. I've "gotten things done" with all of the aforementioned complex methods, but I've had to face the fact that I was simply working harder than I needed to due to my own personal search for the
Great Palm Unified Theory of TimeManagement Application Usage (that's
GPUT² for all you acronym lovers out there).
The fact is: Ain't no such thang.
Again, don't worry... I'm not trying to start a "plain Vanilla Palm" crusade; to each his own, and more power to those who experiment with
ALL of this great stuff. History will absolve us for all our Palm-based excesses. But even though you might be a lifelong
Palm Cognoscenti, remember to step "outside" the PDA once in a while just in case -- just in case, mind you! -- it might be eating up just a tad more time than it's really worth.