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Sometimes, synchronizing your stuff is fun, and useful at the same time. I managed to sync up all my calendars, tasks and contacts through my desktop running on Mac OS X, my notebook running on Vista and my iPhone, thanks to this web service called Plaxo.
This is how I would usually go into doing stuff starting tomorrow… (By the way, I decided to bring the notebook everyday, just to try this stuff, and how bringing one will actually save me from those dreaded deadlines.)
Every morning, I open up my calendar (in the desktop, it’s called iCal) and have a look at what I’m supposed to do. Let’s say I have a report to be done tomorrow, and so I start doing it, until it’s time to go to school. I sync up my iPhone to the desktop. (Right now I’m doing it through the dock, but when iPhone 2.0 is released, it’ll be through WiFi.) After doing some non-technology-related stuff, like taking a shower, I go to school. Before the first class starts, I make sure I’ve connected through the school’s WiFi or LAN, so everything can be synced. Throughout my classes, I make notes, and when I’m done with them, I upload them to the desktop through FTP. Let’s say there’s going to be an exam next week, so I open up Outlook on my notebook and put it on my calendar. And, let’s say, for some reason, I’ve finished the report, so I open up the “event” and add the file as an attachment. I sync my notebook and iPhone at the end of my classes, just to make sure that they’re all up in the cloud (I mean, in the Plaxo server). When I get back home, I see all the stuff I’ve done during my classes, and I’ll probably put in a reminder for that report I’ve made, just so I wouldn’t forget to print it tomorrow.
It’s a pretty sketchy simulation, but I think you guys get the point. The system’s kinda messy, but when I get hold of Live Mesh or maybe force myself to pay $99 for MobileMe, maybe it’ll be much more efficient than Plaxo.
