From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Diary Usage Poll (WAS) Re: enhanced diary mode?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:07:59 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vg3dj90t.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u65vdgh4v.fsf@synopsys.com
David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com> writes:
> Could you be a bit more specific as to why? Isn't there a BBDB to
> Palm synchronizer out there (somewhere...)?
Few reasons:
* I am near my laptop nearly all the time. I had stopped carrying
around my Palm when I wasn't, since it was generally a pain.
* I was sick of the lack of coordination with the programs I normally
use. For example, I was keeping a second addressbook in bbdb to be
able to mail people easily. I also was keeping a second copy of
phone numbers in my cell phone.
* There is a SyncBBDB, but it only works with PilotManager. I
switched from PilotManager long ago because I hated it. ISTR some
stability issues, which may have been corrected, but certainly it
didn't sync well with any calendar programs I liked.
* I disliked the limitations of the Palm calendar. When I found
myself running M-x holidays to update the Palm, I figured I needed
to change.
Now, I do everything within Emacs. When I need info and am away from
my computer, I carry a small Circa[1] and a fountain pen. I can
print my calendar into pages sized for the notebook. I haven't
bothered with BBDB info yet, although it's on the list, since my
phone has all that stuff. (Still no way to sync the phone.)
Otherwise, I don't carry anything around, and I don't feel bad about
having this piece of electronics I never actually use. (Instead, I
gave it to my mom.)
Anything the Emacs solutions don't do that I want, I just fix. Makes
it happy that way.
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.levenger.com, sorry, couldn't figure out the deep link.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
"I dunno how you guys walk around with those things." (Elaine)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-03 10:04 enhanced diary mode? Adam P.
2002-11-03 11:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
[not found] ` <mailman.1036324818.17268.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-03 12:31 ` Adam P.
2002-11-03 16:53 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-03 17:50 ` Adam P.
2002-11-03 16:52 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-06 9:25 ` Janusz S. Bień
2002-11-06 13:35 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-09 19:51 ` Janusz S. Bień
[not found] ` <mailman.1036591851.15704.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-06 15:30 ` David S Goldberg
[not found] ` <mailman.1036567032.10098.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-06 15:17 ` Edward M. Reingold
2002-11-04 2:10 ` Diary Usage Poll (WAS) " Galen Boyer
2002-11-04 2:22 ` Diary Usage Poll Henrik Enberg
2002-11-04 3:23 ` Diary Usage Poll (WAS) Re: enhanced diary mode? Alan Shutko
2002-11-04 21:27 ` David Masterson
2002-11-04 21:48 ` Diary Usage Poll David S Goldberg
2002-11-05 18:16 ` David Masterson
2002-11-04 22:07 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
2002-11-05 13:33 ` Diary Usage Poll (WAS) Re: enhanced diary mode? Sacha Chua
2002-11-05 18:41 ` Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
2002-11-05 19:08 ` Alan Shutko
2002-11-05 0:47 ` mr.sparkle
2002-11-06 20:01 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.1036615660.28127.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-06 21:22 ` Diary Usage Poll Alan Shutko
2002-11-07 15:11 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.1036682579.21567.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-07 19:07 ` Alan Shutko
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