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Mac at Home, Windows at Office, PDA in pocket - GTD everywhere?

Hello. I'm a student and new to GTD. I have a Mac at home which I have been using with an Excel file to manage projects and Next-Actions by using color coding and marcos to quickly label and identify Contexts.

I will soon begin working a full time job and at the office will be using a Windows-based laptop. I also want to get a PDA so I can have my project list and other GTD reference materials with me at time.

Has anyone figured out a good system for using all these tools (Mac at home, Windows at office, any PDA everywhere) with robust syncing, seamless (or close to it) transferability and interoperability between the 3 systems?

If you have, I would greatly appreciate you telling me what software, PDA model, and paper based tools you used to make it all work.

Thanks Mucho
CPAdude

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Are you married to the...

Are you married to the idea of doing GTD-ish stuff on both computers? Because aside from contacts perhaps, you wouldn't need to worry about syncing and software compatibility if you developed an effective paper-based system.

If you'd rather keep it all digital, either a Palm or Windows Mobile PDA would do the trick now that Missing Sync for the Mac works for WM 5.

 
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