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 Originally Posted by atremorer
Thanks to everyone for your thoughts.
One thing I want to make certain of is the fact that I have my personal calendar/contacts/tasks/memos in addition to the ones that are hooked to my work's Exchange server. I only want to sync my personal account. I'll let the exchange server sync work related things over the air since it works perfectly. I'm just trying to finally keep all my personal info separate from my work info.
Michael, my usage is the same as yours. I've had my Pre for a year now and was also disappointed by the PIM abilities. I tried several of these programs in the early stages (they were released and not working well) and decided upon Pocket Mirror. Support from them swayed my vote, as did their implementation.
My home PC Outlook contains my personal schedule, tasks, notes and calendar. At work, Exchange has my professional items. Synergy combines the two of them on the Pre well, though Pocket Mirror makes up for the Pre's two weaknesses - Tasks and Notes. Notes in particular are weak, and I don't know how you use them, but I transferred my work notes to my home PC and have them all in Pocket Mirror's notes. The native task manager has my work tasks (albeit this is poor, so I manage more from my work PC). My home tasks are on PM's task manager, and I can manage them well from either the Pre or the PC. Reminders/etc for tasks within PM are more flexible than the Pre's native software.
I like the OTA for Exchange updates, and at home I have a good wifi system so it's easy to sync once or twice a day for PM.
I don't regret having PM at all. In fact, the Pre's weakness in tasks and notes led me toward PM and pushed me to separate my personal and work items - they were combined on my work PC. Now I'm happy to have the two divorced and managed separately.
However, Palm's past strength was in PIM - and this is a downfall in the Pre. I hope they address it in the future, especially with the Exchange server side.
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