Peter Chubb <[email protected]> writes:
> Until recently I've been using a palm-based PDA and jPilot on the
> desktop. My palm alas has died. So now I want to use my Nokia E65
> phone instead to track appointments, TODos, and PIN numbers (via
> gnome-keyring). It has a much more horrible user interface, but I can
> cope for now.
Hah. Wait until you have suffered from it for a month or two.
> The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight,
> simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and
> can sync with a Nokia?
Nothing. opensync is the closest to a working project you are going to
find, but it sucks, and can't really cope with talking to Symbian
devices terribly well anyhow.[1]
> I looked at Evolution but it wants to do email as well, and with only
> 256M memory it's far far too big and slow.
...also, sucks at syncing anyhow.
> Any ideas?
Buy another Palm Pilot, since nothing else out there is really going to
give a lot of joy in terms of sync with Linux at the moment.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Well, perhaps things have radically improved in the last month, but
I really doubt it.
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