From: Johannes Wolf (mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.int)
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 05:47:47 PDT
It is a little bit a question of philosophy as well.
When I figured out that NowUp2Date does not work for me,
I tried the contact manager from Norton (I do not remember the name)
and I was disappointed to no end, it messed up completely the names soup in
the Newton and moreover it had a concept totally different from the Newton
one.
Then I found Clockwork that I still use today, but unfortunately it cannot
synch names.
Later I tried Newtourage once and was quiet happy, but then the evaluation
timed out and I was not able to get it to work again.
BTW: What is the current status of the Newtourage project???
Inbetween I had to switch to a PC at work and I tried Lookout.
This was working quiet well with Outlook and I was able to synch names and
dates and todos.
At a certain point I took the advice of a friend of mine:
let the Newton be the master device for dates and names.
I feed new names and dates into the Newt only and this is a solution for me.
I can live with the fact that my names (and dates) on my computer are not up
to date.
This way I can use all the additional features of the Newt and have all the
important information at hand.
And my Newt never forgot anything. (but of course I always take care of
having at least a weekly backup).
Cheers
Johannes
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> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Brian
> Braunschweiger
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 5:34 PM
> To: Newton Talk List
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Getting Things Done (GTD)
> Paul wrote:
> >Anyone using a Newton in conjuction with Dave Allen's Getting Things
> >Done (GTD) system?
> I'm trying to. I am still familiarizing myself with the GTD system
> and am sure what I AM trying to implement I am not always doing
> properly. That said, I have found the concept of the system helpful
> and inspiring [see brief summary below of system], especially the
> ideas of collecting everything I need to know and do into one place
> and breaking down what needs to be done into bite size pieces.
> Regarding the Newton's role in this, I think there are some major
> limitations of using it as the primary device for implementing the
> GTD system. My personal modified approach of using the Newton has
> shown some of those. To this point, I have found I need for my work
> (1) my Mac desktop, (2) a Newton and (3) a Palm device - in my case a
> IIIxe. Both the Palm and the Newton are essentially Plain Vanilla
> (i.e. no special purpose apps added to deal with the GTD tasks). On
> the Mac I am primarily using Now Contact and Up-to-Date version 3.9.2
> on OS 9.1. I do most of my data entry on the desktop.
SNIP
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