Categories in Palm Calendar?

[Bryan Villarin]

There's a lot of different ways you can setup Palm Calendar - I just
haven't heard too much noise on this. I like it, so I use it! :)

How David sets his up:
http://www.davidco.com/tips_tools/tip43.html

Right now, my calendar categories are setup basically like how
pdaaddict has hers:
http://organizedhome.com/journal-display-jid-1309.html

Since I have Datebk5, I want to make the most out of it. (I love the
saved views*.) So, do you have any suggestions on how YOU would setup
the categories there? I haven't seen too much written on this, but
maybe I'm looking in the wrong place (or 43F has too many archives). :P

Thanks!

- Bryan

* Saved Views allow you to limit what calendar/tasks categories show
up, and other cool stuff. So I have one setup for work, school, home,
and out-and-about.

[GTD Wannabe]

I tie my Palm to Outlook. I have separate calendar and task
categories. For example, my task categories are all next action
categories, like @calls, etc.

But my calendar categories are different. I call them +Hard (meaning
hard landscape item, appointment, deadline, etc.); +Info (info about
something that's not 100% important to me, like when somebody I need to
email will be back from vacation); +X, where X is my spouse's name -
separates out my stuff from spouse's important appointments; +Birthdays
(obviously, peoples birthdays); +ToDo (this one I keep for those tasks
that have to be done on a certain day); and finally one called
+Important. It's kind of a duplicate category, but some of my +Hard
items are really +Important and I can't afford to miss them.

It doesn't sound that exciting, but where I benefit is in the colour
schemes. I have a different colour for each category, like red for
+Important. So, when I look at my calendar, either in Palm or Outlook,
I can get the relative importance of things just by looking at the
colour. For example, red and dark blue items pop out as the +Important
and +Hard things. Turquoise are things that I have +ToDo. +Green is
birthdays and holidays and only need to be scanned once in a while.
Grey is for +Info only. I also leave quite a few things unfiled (white
by default), so I have basically two levels of information items, grey
being least important.

Hope this gives you some ideas!

[Bryan Villarin]

Thanks! That definitely gives me some ideas.

I'm not liking the category system I've got setup right now in my
calendar, and I "digg" the context-sensitive selection I have in my
Task categories. So, I think I can redo my calendar categories with a
hybrid system. Off the top of my head:

@Home
@Office
@School
Task@Home
Task@Office
Task@School
Task@Call
Task@Computer
Task@Anywhere
+Birthday/Anniv
+Info-Home
+Info-Office
+Info-School

After I remove my calendar items around into their new categories, I
can redo the Saved Views to my liking.

Any other thoughts?