I tried to be level-headed. I tried to be analytical. I had to admit that my personal information management was at a low point, with a mishmosh of Thunderbird for Mail, Outlook for Contacts, Google for Calendar, and Remember the Milk for Tasks. I figured my options were to get a MacBook Pro and go with the cool herd, or try something really radical…like go back to Outlook 2003.
And you know what? It’s a relief. Integrated, desktop software. Almost feels like a novelty these days. I was this close to writing a mashup that would pull together what I needed and…forget it. I open my laptop, and even on a train without a connection I can access my calendar, and contacts, and tasks. Fantastic. I remembered why I’d left it for TBird a few years ago — sluggish performance, unstable, no spam filtering. Well, SpamBayes seems to be much more mature now, and oddly TBird was getting pretty sluggish too.
So I guess the punchline is, I can wait a bit longer for that Mac promised land and all the surprises it will bring. For now, it’s just a pleasure to hit F11, type a portion of a name, and get a real contact with categories and everything.
Call me old-fashioned.
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