1st of all, nice article. I’ll be trying to pick up new habits.

By all means, put contacts on the phone. But make sure you sync the data often. Don’t copy. Sync.

My contacts are on my phone. And in my Palm. And on Outlook at work. And on Yahoo! contacts. I don’t have a paper copy anywhere.

But I sync ‘em all. I started with the Palm. I sync it at work and at home. I have POSE so I can run the apps read only if my Palm gets broken again (3 times?). Contacts, calendar, todo, memos, STRIP (passwords on Palm only).

I use Yahoo! to sync contacts, tasks & the calendar. My wife can read the calendar.

Intellisync came with the Palm to sync with Outlook at work. I use that too.

Work gave me a Blackberry and that syncs with Outlook.

I can edit in Outlook, Yahoo, Palm, Blackberry but I don’t have to reenter data. Ever. On rare occasions I have to tell something that one set of data should wipe the other.

I carry my Blackberry and Palm with me.

My wife can view Yahoo to see my schedule or contacts.

I’m not worrying if I lose my phone. I have at least one copy of all my contacts elsewhere.