Where the hell am I supposed to be?

[vernard]

I’ve been having a helluva time trying to keep trackof all the various meetings, social events, doctor’s appointments, birthday and such that I normally keep track of. I’ve been trying to use some calendaring software that can synchronize either to my cell phone or a PDA of some sort. But since I mostly work in a Linux environment, its been damned near impossible to get that to work. I currently am using some really crappy alpha version of sunbird. Its not what I want but its the best I have out there right now. It doesn’t sync to anything.

So my questions are:

What is a good low-end calendar/PDA device that can sync from/to a linux desktop calendar applicaiton of some sort?
you have any recommendations unwiredben?

Comments

[skellington.livejournal.com]

J and I just started using google calendars.

It exports data in iCal format, but a clean sync with the palm and two-way syncing aren't there yet. (It might be possible to do it through outlook.)

Anyway, for sharing with someone else it is pretty cool. We set up individual calendars, a "cool events we might do" and a "joint events" calendar. I'll probably set up a "birthday / etc." calendar.

Having it on the web is ALMOST as convenient as having it on a Palm, as most of my social engagements arrive via email.

But a Palm solution would make it perfect. (And I'm using my Treo 600 with a dead phone as a straight organizer, but it is somewhat suboptimal I think.)

[irtluhc.livejournal.com]

Unhelpful suggestion: s/Linux/Mac OS X Tiger/

O:-)

(or, for any Mac-heads reading this, perhaps that should be :-) .)

[(Anonymous)]

I've been using a Mac PowerBook 12" unit for the last few months and I actually like it.

But then again, I reloarded it with YelloDog Linux cause it was too slow running 10.1 in only 256MB of ram :-)

I'd give 10.4 a try but the blasted unit only takes 640MB of ram maximum and that just ain't enough RAM for a Mac :-(

yup, pretty damned useless :)

[vernard.livejournal.com]

I've been using a Mac PowerBook 12" unit for the last few months and I actually like it.

But then again, I reloarded it with YelloDog Linux cause it was too slow running 10.1 in only 256MB of ram :-)

I'd give 10.4 a try but the blasted unit only takes 640MB of ram maximum and that just ain't enough RAM for a Mac :-(

Re: yup, pretty damned useless :)

[irtluhc.livejournal.com]

10.1?! Egads! At least bump that sucker up to 10.2. They made a lot of speed improvements between those two releases. As strange as it seems, the newer, more featureful version actually runs faster! ;-)

640MB might seem like a small amount of RAM, but I've been running Tiger on 512MB on a 667MHz G4 PowerBook for quite some time, without too much trouble. But, as always, YMMV.

[st-darwin.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem (missing a deadline is a good sign you need calendaring help), but I also needed to access my calendar in a building where I didn't have access to the Internet, my laptop, or a PDA. So I bought an at-a-glance weekly calendar, and that worked well.