New job, new system: Cross-platform tools?

[Cody]

I'm starting a new job in a couple of weeks, one which will require a
greater degree of organization and productivity.

Strikes me that the beginning of a new job (for those of us who are
full-time rather than freelance or consultants) is one of the few
really natural points for shaking up my routine and getting my act
together, productivity-wise.

To that end, I'm looking for a solution which will allow me
cross-platform access to, at the very least, contacts and calendar.
Here's my setup:
Home - 10.3.x G4, with dynamic DNS
Mobile - 10.4.2 1.67 mHz 15" G4 PBook, SonyEricsson T610
New job - a PC to be named later, MS Office

I'm using Mail/iCal/iSync on the Macs and with my phone.

I'm willing to consider a portable device such as a PDA, but would
prefer to avoid having another item to carry around.

I'd prefer a web-based solution.

Any thoughts?

[Ella E-L]

The Mozilla calendaring solution (Sunbird) is beta & a little buggy but
syncs with webDAV servers and uses the iCal format. I love it. You
could either set up your own webDAV server or use icalx.com (which is
great and very pretty but a little unreliable) or possibly .Mac. I've
been using Sunbird at work and iCal at home for a while now with no
major issues.

For managing contact info I'd probably suggest importing your contacts
into gmail or something.

Failing all that, yahoo is doing some pretty cool things with
calendaring etc solutions, & of course contacts too. If you haven't
looked at their offerings lately I'd suggest checking it out, they've
made a lot of improvements in the past year or two.

good luck
:e

[Pascal Venier]

I have been in a similar situation for slightly over a year, since I
switched back to the Mac, but I have a Wintel machine in my office at
the university where I work as a lecturer.

My implementation of GTD is therefore twofold:

- based on Devonthink for what is conducted exclusively on my powerbook
and often requires to work without internet access (Research work).

-but based on Backpack [ http://backpackit.com/ ] for what is
generally conducted with internet access (Teaching, administration).

I would very strongly recommend exploring Backpack, but also Basecamp [
http://www.basecamphq.com/ ], both offered by 37Signals, which has also
recently announced their forthcoming Writeboard [
http://www.writeboard.com/ ].

Pascal Venier
http://venier.blogspot.com

[Judine]

I have a Mac at home and a PC at work and have found Airset
(http://www.airset.com) to be fantastic. It is a free Web-based
calendering and task management system. It even includes a blog and
task list for each calendar you set up. One one account, I have a
personal calendar, a work calender, my husband's calendar, and my son's
calendar. I have also just added an FYI/Maybe calendar (to record
events I might want to go to or notes, for example, about when friends
will be in town) and a calendar for a specific project at work. (I can
ensure that my co-workers only have access to the calendars I
designate.)

I can view each calendar individually or all at the same time. You can
also link one calendar to another, so I make sure that my work calendar
also reflects personal obligations.

There is a fee if you want to access these from a mobile device --
that's how Airset plans to make a profit.

The customer service, by the way, is great.