Thread: PIM Contest
View Single Post
fattomm's Avatar
fattomm is offline fattomm
2008-11-27 , 02:26
Posts: 109 | Thanked: 37 times | Joined on Oct 2008 @ NYC, NY
#10
Originally Posted by sgosnell View Post
Datebk is the best I've seen, but it's Palm. CESD has sent emails saying he is porting it to Windows as a desktop app, and i suppose we can dream it will also come to Linux, and then a Maemo port.
I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen much (other than pleading) about Win desktop -- but thought there was some discussion about WinMo. There was a reference to a Linux port -- and I ponied up to be a Maemo beta.

GPE contacts is ok, not perfect but I can live with it. I have no problems with memos, but there are some Palm memo replacement apps around. I haven't bothered.

Integration is a fairly large deal. The ability to get to PIMs instantly is part of the zen of Palm. I'm still carrying my Lifedrive, and still prefer the T3, but the wifi hotsync and a few other things put that in a drawer. I see nothing at all for Maemo that rivals any Palm PIM app, but since I found pyring I'm close to giving up my Palm. PIMs aren't at the absolute top of my list. An acceptable password safe that can import Keyring files was holding me back, but pyring does that. It's not perfect, but it works well enough.
I think I have to agree with you here -- the Zen was in the integration (probably allowed, for all it's faults, by the data driven model). Key elements I love about DB6 is the integration with the contact list (in additional to easily a dozen other things). You've not lived until you use a template for a doctor's appointment with the link that brings up the contact, and that has an updated notes field so when you look up your doctor, you see this history of appointments. Pure calendaring epiphany.

Klumping through gpe-contacts was ... ugly? No clicking on the name to call, on links back into the calendar (was is the last/next hangout with this person?) I kind of like the calendar -- but not very finger-friendly. The N800 struggles still with the finger/stylus schizophrenia. (If the Canola people took a whack at the UI for GPE -- we might find ultimate bliss...)