Migrating from Now Software on the Mac Platform

[Joe Space]

I'm interested to know what other Now users are doing in light of the
end of Now Software.

What other products/solutions have you tried?

Which in your opinion is the best?

Why?

Thank you!

Joe Space

[davebarnes]

Calendar = BusyCal (good enough for me, 1 day of use)
Tasks = Things (excellent in my opinion, 1 year of use)
Contacts = Address Book (inadequate, but it will have to do. I will
also probably rely more on LinkedIn.)

[Wilson Ng]

I have close to the same thing.

I am also converting to BusyCal for my calendar.

I've found that using PIMs such as Now X and SOHO Organizer is OK but
not great for task management and have used OmniFocus for my projects/
tasks.

Then Address Book is for my contacts. But I am using DevonThink Pro
Office and created a folder for each contact. That's where I keep my
contact history.

Once upon a time, it was nice to have an all-in-one program that did
everything ala AppleWorks. But life has gotten more complex in a new
century. An example I like to use is records management. Previously I
would rely on Now Up-To-Date to keep records of all my bill payments.
I'd have a contact record for my credit card company and it would have
my payment history there. Nowadays, I would put a task/reminder on the
due date to make a payment (for those payments that don't have auto-
billing) on my calendar. I would make my payment and get a receipt. I
would scan my receipt into Mariner Paperless and then just auto-delete
the task from my calendar after 90 days. At least I know my receipt
scan is in Mariner Paperless.

So I'm slowly accepting the fact that my PIM is no longer able to
handle more complex workflows.

Still hoping for a better contact solution. The BusyCal folks are
stating that they are considering a contact solution but it will
probably be 2011 before they even start working on it if they
greenlight the project. It's been a popular request at BusyMac.

Maybe you can give a shout out to the BusyCal folks and if they see
enough demand, they might just greenlight it earlier. But I believe
they are working on enhancing BusyCal. When development slows down and
most of the features are in place, they'll turn their sights to other
projects.

[Fritz Mills]

What I missed most was the menubar access to contact info. I found
BdContacts (and BdCalendar) from baddogapps.com. It's not quite as
smooth, but it's inexpensive and provides me what the functionality I
missed.

[Wilson Ng]

ABMenu is free. I just downloaded it this morning. It might be
something to look at.

Curiously, I haven't really seen a lot of reviews for BDContacts and
BDCalendar.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12302/abmenu