ETA for a calendar?

[Metta]

With another quick look at EPIM, I like the fact that it includes email functionality since that would be useful to me on my netbook -- and the unlimited database capacity is a huge (no pun intended) benefit.

Also, may I ask:
-- Do you use the "Notes" function in EPIM?
-- If so, what is your criteria for determining:
` which notes go into EPIM and
` which notes go into UltraRecall?

To be honest, my biggest concern now with introducing a new calendar app into the mix is that I may soon lose track of what information I put where!

[Jon Polish]

Originally Posted by Metta

With another quick look at EPIM, I like the fact that it includes email functionality since that would be useful to me on my netbook -- and the unlimited database capacity is a huge (no pun intended) benefit.

Also, may I ask:
-- Do you use the "Notes" function in EPIM?
-- If so, what is your criteria for determining:
` which notes go into EPIM and
` which notes go into UltraRecall?

To be honest, my biggest concern now with introducing a new calendar app into the mix is that I may soon lose track of what information I put where!

Some of the questions you asked earlier will be answered here.

I try not to use the notes function in EPIM. All notations are kept in UR. Why? Because it is impossible to definitively decide on criteria as to which belongs where. There are too many gray areas. Although it is extra effort, I "schedule" appointments first within UR and create all links to the appointment item. The command line is then copied and pasted into the appropriate slot in EPIM's calendar. I can put a brief description, and I am set. A click on the appointment link in EPIM takes me to UR with all of the supporting information I need. Is it clunky? Yes, but until UR gains a calendar (I seriously doubt it ever will), it will do. The serious disadvantages come with printing a calendar (because most of the content remains in UR) and in synching to Google calendar. This is why you would be tempted to keep your notes in EPIM.

For these reasons I don't heavily rely on synching, other than using Google Calendar as a reminder. My UR database and EPIM file gets copied to a USB stick and it goes with me. I can also use dropbox or something similar. UR and EPIM come in portable versions, so you can bring these along too.

Jon

[Jon Polish]

Originally Posted by Metta

` which notes go into EPIM and
` which notes go into UltraRecall?

To be honest, my biggest concern now with introducing a new calendar app into the mix is that I may soon lose track of what information I put where!

Well to confuse you even more, I am a long time user of InfoQube and it's closest ancestor Ecco Pro. InfoQube has progressed so much that I have left Ecco Pro largely behind. The latest development cycle includes an upgraded calendar with which I can do exactly what I was doing in EPIM. I rely heavily on both UR and IQ and only got into EPIM to make up for UR's lack of a calendar. Now with IQ's improved calendar, I think I can eliminate EPIM. I am testing this now and it looks promising.

[Metta]

Thank you again, Jon, for your very helpful feedback!

This is getting interesting since I am a former Ecco Pro user, as well. I had, in fact, been using it exclusively for over a decade until I bumped up against it's capacity limits a little over a year ago, and that's what sent me on the quest for the Holy Grail of PIM software.

It actually looks like we've traveled similar paths on this journey, and I'll be interested ow in comparing notes (no pun intended) in more detail. However, I'm heading out of town now, so I'll have to reconnect when I return at which point I, too, will take a look at InfoQube.

In the meantime, I'll send you a quick private message for our follow-up since we've clearly diverged from UR support issues....

Thanks again!