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Palm Desktop Replacement?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-a-better-PIM dept.

rueger asks: "Almost from Day One I've found the Palm desktop and handheld software to be sorely lacking. The Address Book only allows you to record one address, not one for home and one for work, and only lets you sort or search by name and company name, not by city for instance. The calendar won't let you link contact names to appointments which again seems an obvious missing feature. I've been looking for a software replacement that would add these features and more, and still sync with my Palm (well, Clie). Outlook is not a possibility for all of the usual reasons. What I've found is that there are some very nice PIMs out there, but most won't hot-sync. Those that do, like Time & Chaos, have no more functionality than the Palm software, and lack some features that I use. What are other handheld users turning to? Is there an Open Source replacement?"

3 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple's iCal and Address Book or.... by xanderwilson · · Score: 4, Informative
    Okay. Forget Google. Try here.

    Alex.

  2. Ecco Pro with Shadow Palm and DateBk5 by Will+Sargent · · Score: 5, Informative
    There was a pretty huge list of PIMs, but the market was exterminated by Microsoft Outlook and never really recovered. In addition, only some of them integration with Palms.

    http://john.redmood.com/organizers.html
    http://www.ypsolog.com/docs/comp/other/pim.html
    http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/toolkinds/organize.ht ml

    The odds are good that you'll find something that works.

    I personally use Ecco Pro, Shadow Palm and DateBk5.

    But then again, I'm a zealot.

  3. Evolution by npsimons · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know a lot of people like to bag on Evolution, but I've found it works quite nicely when synchronizing to my Palm m500 over serial. I'm using Debian stable, and there are a couple of packages that you will need besides evolution. I believe they were evolution, gnome-pilot, and gnome-pilot-conduits (apt should get all the proper dependencies). Although, you still only get one address (business) on the Palm side, I believe this is a limitation with the Palm addressbook software. You can keep multiple addresses in Evolution, but only the business one will show up on the Palm addressbook.

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