Technology Email, PIM software, cell phone syncing, etc.

[da8s0859q]

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Curious as to what approach you guys take with this.

I've got a main desktop right now, and I'm getting a notebook within the next week or two. Looking forward to giving it a try.

I also have an HTC Touch which syncs contacts, calendar info, etc. from Outlook.

I have four email addresses forwarding to one main email address, so checking multiple webmail accounts isn't an issue. I'm just wondering whether you guys stick to a paper calendar, or keep track of things in your head and just use webmail, or if you use Outlook (or Thunderbird or the like) exclusively, or what. What's your system?

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Our school mail is Exchange, so I use Outlook/Entourage. When I'm off campus (home, coffee shop, etc.) I set up a VPN to the school's network. It's beautiful!

I used to work a corporate gig that relied pretty heavily on the meeting invites and resource scheduling you can do with the Outlook/Exchange calendar and I've stuck with it ever since.

 

[DrJosephKim]

Outlook. Then you can sync with your google account and access your contacts and calendars from any internet-connected PC.

 

[da8s0859q]

Outlook. Then you can sync with your google account and access your contacts and calendars from any internet-connected PC.

Well, not so much the contacts, or have they finally come up with a way to do that besides manually ex-/importing CSVs and such?

 

[nlax30]

Currently just use Outlook on the laptop. School email and a couple personal accounts go into that and it gets synced with my PDA (a slightly older HP iPaq, windows based) for calendar duties.

Over the years I've tried tons of different sync options/software combos, I'm a bit of a gadget freak and constantly like to tweak things so I usually don't stay with one solution for very long.

Though, I have been using, and am a big fan of Google's Calendar Sync program. Just a small program that runs in the tray and keeps my outlook and google calendars synced with each other. Until I came across this little program I really didn't have a decent way of keeping those two calendars together but this has been working pretty well.

It doesn't do contacts but that isn't a big deal for me.

 

[AJ Smith]

I've been using Outlook to keep track of my things.🙂