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MacBook Pro | GTD | BlackBerry...Anyone, Anyone??

OK, I made the "switch" yesterday after my WinXP box decided to fry my Outlook data file............again.

Anyone out there use GTD on a Mac synched with a BlackBerry?

I found the PocketMac for BlackBerry sync software, but I am totally new to Mac and don't know what is best for a PIM. Lots of choices, obviously, but I'm trying to keep it simple for Calendar, Tasks/To-do's, Contacts and Notes. I use webmail, so email client is not a concern.

So far, I've found:
Entourage: Is it stable on a Mac? Can I use it on a MacBook Pro? I'm not at all excited about a MS product though unless it's rock solid on a Mac.

KinklessGTD: I've read about it briefly, seems simple enough, but I'm more Contact | Notes | Calendar focused - my projects are simple lists. Not sure if I can sync it with my crackberry.

Palm Desktop for Mac: I would LOVE to use this, but I can't figure out how to sync it with a crackberry. (Like most, the crackberry is an office requirement and I'm trying to avoid carrying a Palm and a crackberry device both)

Address Book | iCal | Stickies: This appears to be the simplest "out of the box" possibility, but I don't yet see how to categorize Stickies (memos/reference lists).

That's what I've seen so far. Sorry for the long-winded post, but I'm struggling to get my GTD / PIM setup in the Mac asap. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd REALLY appreciate it!!!

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Jeff

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Berko (and everyone else that...

Berko (and everyone else that replied), thanks very much for your thoughts, I appreciate it.

I installed kGTD last night and set up most of the contexts that I use. When kGTD creates or syncs it's next actions with iCal and creates a separate calendar for each context/project, do all those calendars sync through iSync to a PDA - or just one "main" calendar? Sorry, but I'm not up to speed on iSync or iCal as much as I'd like yet.

OOP looks like it will be very useful for me apart from kGTD. I haven't really used an outlining product before, I used to just make outlines in MS Word, so OOP should be a big improvement.

Your "...Miscellaneous project for the inevitable this-is-just-a-next-action-and-doesn't-belong-to-a-project actions" is a GREAT tip, thanks. Since I try to keep my N/A's list to only the next physical action (disclaimer: I said try :)), this "not related to a particular project" will be my biggest list.

On the multiple calendars: I haven't had that ability before - all my appointments and hard landscape N/A's (career-work actions and personal-work actions, project related, not-project-related, all contexts) were always on one calendar. Since I tend to agree with David Allen's thoughts on "no real difference between career-work actions and personal-work actions" I'm not sure I want to separate calendars by context/project at all. I prefer to see all my "hard landscape stuff" for a particular day/week/month at one glance, but I haven't even thought about potential advantages of "peeling" my calendar by context/project?

I've had several Aha! moments in the 3 days I've had my Mac, so I'm starting to get the whole zealot thing. I uninstalled a program by dragging it's icon to the trash can.....that was big. In WinXP, I'd have to run the uninstaller, search for things it missed, and then often run a registry cleaner after that just to really uninstall it. On the Mac, that whole project, is... just a drag-n-drop next action. Nice.

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Jeff

 
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