Multiple trusted systems?

[apastuszak]

Does anyone have to use more than one trusted system? One for work related things and one for personal?

I am unable to access my task list for work and calendar without getting a laptop out and VPNing in, so I end up using another calendar and personal system for home. But work and home tend to bleed together at times and I end up checking two placed at work before I go out to lunch to see what errands I need to run.

I think my biggest problem in the system is, I was given a Blackberry, and I HATE it. I have tried over and over again to make it my trusted system and i just despise everything about the damn thing. And the thing is, the Blackberry was my first smartphone, so it's not like I had a iPhone and Palm Pre to taint me.

 

[Cpu_Modern]

In a sense you cannot have multiple trusted systems, but just one. If you happen to have your projects split into work and personal and maintaining these at two distinct places, you still have one system with one list of projects. Yeah, you use two places to hold each a part of your projects list, but in the end it is still one list. Either your system is 'trusted' and you know where to look for things, or it isn't. Heck, you could have 2 calendars: one for before noon and one for the afternoon. Thing is, the physical buckets can not split the logical constructs such as the projects-list.

 

[Cpu_Modern]

But work and home tend to bleed together at times and I end up checking two placed at work before I go out to lunch to see what errands I need to run.

Maybe having one combined @errands-list for both systems helps? Make your system practical, if it's too cumbersome to use you will end up neglecting it.

I think my biggest problem in the system is, I was given a Blackberry, and I HATE it.

How can this be a problem? Just don't use it for your system. Or talk to your boss, get another phone.