Re: PIM Software
arehrlich
perfect PIM but I always come back to ECCO Pro. Funny, since this
software has been abandoned by its developers since around 1996!
It remains the most powerful PIM on the market with integrated
outlining, calendar, phone directory - all working off of a series of
tables that interact and filter flawlessly.
I've been playing with Accomplice this past week and it has great
potential. I'll be interested in seeing how it develops.
Alan
boyafraid wrote:
> I wanted to know the groups' thoughts on PIM software out there.
>
> My current primary PIM at home is Info Select 2007 (
> http://www.miclog.com/ ).
>
> What PIM you use and why?
>
> Thanks!
Steve Holden
On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:10 PM, boyafraid wrote:
> I wanted to know the groups' thoughts on PIM software out there.
>
> My current primary PIM at home is Info Select 2007 (
> http://www.miclog.com/ ).
>
> What PIM you use and why?
Day to day I use Outlook 2003 on Windows TabletPC. Reasons:
- It works well within my IT setup
- Has the features I need to implement 'my customized version" of GTD
- Relatively solid POP, Exchange, SMTP, IMAP connectivity
- Integrates well with Office [ie. Journal]
- Syncs with my Windows Mobile Phone
- Does Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Notes, and Journal
- RSS reader via Newsgator
- The new Jello Dashboard is very helpful to me when I'm trying to do
my GTD weekly review
- PKI support (authentication and encryption)
- Can move data back and forth with MindJet MindManager
Steve
reasonableone
used EssentialPIM (mentioned before a few times in the group). Most
complete for what I want to do in keeping lots of reference material
handy.
One feature that I wish would be if it could have separate databases
(Contacts section) for organizing common data and to have more Wiki
like blended in functionality in the Notes section. Still, with
calender, todo, Outlook integration, and scheduler features, he does
great. Think that most of us here are always looking for the perfect
tool..
TheOldGuy
Lotus Organizer circa 1998. I've tried others but not found anything
that works better, or even as well, for me.
mcanta
Some contest: I'm a phD candidate and I work as a communication
consultant, too...
So, as you can argue, my agenda is pretty "dynamic".
I used Lotus Organizer, with a palm sync. Since 2 years, I switched to
a digit/paper mix solution.
A moleskine always in my pocket, Outlook 2003 on my laptop.
I tried a lot of pim software, but no one (except outlook) meets my
requirements:
- tracking email-based projects (such as students thesis) with reviewed
Office documents
- email-started projects (i.e. articles or conversations started in a
mailing list) that evolve to a meeting or a conference
- multicategory system for both email, contact, task and appointment
- dynamic folders based on content (sender, topic, specific words)
- nice printing setting
But... I really miss a web-sync shared solution (avaible for free or
cheap): google calendar seems good, but the outlook integration doesn't
work in a dependable way.
mc
motocrossed
notes to keep all of my notes and project info. Even if I have the
notes somewhere else (text editor, etc) they eventually go into the
Notebook. Google mail with the GTD add in and Google calendar cover
everything else. My stuff is available no matter were I go, even on my
Blackberry. I just got very tired of the PC software and remembering
which product held which info.
william
Outlook. I bounce around a lot so I run Outlook on the desktop in a
couple of offices and then OWA (Outlook Web Access) from anywhere else,
including if I'm at home. If you run off of Exchange server, then
Outlook is the way to go. If I carried a laptop I'd just use Outlook
for all my work stuff all the time.
At home I was using Outlook 2007 but I've been moving more and more to
the Google stuff. I use Google Apps for your Domain (Which is an
awesome free way to use Google with your own domain) and find the web
clients for email and calendaring work great for what I need. I get an
SMS message if I have something scheduled, which is great since I dont
have personal stuff on the agenda every day. I needed something that
would stick it's head up when it needed attention and the SMS
integration in Google Calendar is really nice. I've also started using
Google Docs and Spreadsheets. My wife and I shared out holiday mailing
list, which used to be an Excel spreadsheet we'd email back and forth.
Now its on Google and we can both update it all the time.
John Mayson
> I wanted to know the groups' thoughts on PIM software out there.
>
> My current primary PIM at home is Info Select 2007 (http://www.miclog.com/).
>
> What PIM you use and why?
Sorry to churn up an old thread. I'm new to this (although I've tried
to put GTD into practice on my own for 20 years, I just didn't know it
was called "GTD").
I have used all sorts of PIM software over the years and here's what I
have settled on. It's not perfect, but works well enough.
I have two business laptops running Windows XP and Outlook 2003. My
personal laptop is an Apple iBook running the standard Apple apps (Mail
2, iCal, Address Book, etc.). I need to keep these synchronized as
much as humanly possible. I use Plaxo http://www.plaxo.com which keeps
all of my Outlook information (on my two Windows computers) in sync.
It'll only synchronize contacts with my Apple however, so I have two
calendars. My business calendar is on Outlook. I keep my personal
calendar on Google Calendar and subscribe to the calendars with iCal.
I'm hoping that Plaxo will eventually support synchronizing to Apple's
calendar. I can check my personal calendar online.
I sync my iBook to my iPod, so I always have all of my contacts
(business and personal) and my personal calendar with me at all times.
I use Outlook at work because it fits my company's IT infrastructure.
Keith Lockhart
Have a look at O2M (Outlook to Mac). http://www.littlemachines.com
It only works one way but does a good job of transferring calendar, contacts and email. Price is not too exorbitant for shareware.
Keith
On Nov 8 2006, 9:10 pm, "boyafraid" <mikewa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to know the groups' thoughts on PIM software out there.
>
> My current primary PIM at home is Info Select 2007 ( http://www.miclog.com/).
John Mayson
> John,
> Have a look at O2M (Outlook to Mac). http://www.littlemachines.com
> It only works one way but does a good job of transferring calendar, contacts
> and email. Price is not too exorbitant for shareware.
I have it. :-)
Yeah, it does a good job, but I need a sync utility. My calendar
changes more often than my underwear and I don't want to have to be
doing this manually all the time. For now my system works for me. In
general I know 7 AM - 5 PM M-F my work calendar rules and other times
my home calendar rules. I have no real overlap.
--
John Mayson <jo...@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA