My husband and I both have Gmail accounts, so we use Google Calendar to keep track of each other's schedules. Nice to see it all in one place but be color-coded by person.
As for general information, I just use Gmail. I'll e-mail myself an interesting article, a thought/idea, whatever, and label it "notes to self" and archive it. If I want to retrieve it, all it takes is a quick search and ta da! There it is. :)
I use Things for iPhone and Mac; absolutely adore them. Also, in conjunction with Things, I use Simplenote which is great for notes that are longer than a few words.
Omnifocus, Yojimbo, addressbook and iCal on the mac. Sync to Treo so I can carry it with me. Looking at replacing with either an iPod Touch & simple phone or Android phone.
I do not use cloud based services because of security and access issues.
I agree with OogieM. There is no way I would place information I do not want others to know in the cloud. I have heard so many instances of people having their info compromised by doing this. This could be credit card info, Passwords etc. I have found a really neat application called myINFOSAFE. It is a secure vault that you run on your PC (no Apple version available) and you can store pretty much any sort of info in it as well as documents, images, Videos, Passwords, Asset info, Health info, Financial info etc. You can also back up the application to a USB key and take it with you so you have your info at work or when you travel (and as back up). So far it meets all my needs ( Like having a place to store passwords like the one sent from this forum as who can remember them all, and we all know we should not make them all the same). Look forward to following comments on this site as it is a good topic. Alex.
Google Calendar for events, RTM for tasks (online and on my phone).
For bigger projects (purchase of a new house & move), I have a simple list in a Word document on Google Docs
I used google Docs to store various documents (recycling guide for the city, 'purchasing your first home' guide, etc.). Not as fancy as evernote ... but for now Google Docs is enough. :)
For shopping, I use Evernote (easy to sync with my iPod Touch).
On my personal Mac, I use DevonThink Pro Office. For me, the upgrade was worth it for the OCR capabilities. Trying to go as paperless as practical.
At work on the PC, I use the "Draft" Folder on my work e-mail (need to improve that). At least, no one else can get in there and delete stuff by accident.
Moleskein and a pen, with three tasks max a day :)
a calendar on the wall with a pinboard for school notes etc, an address book that sits by the phone (plus contacts on my mobile SIM, rarely used), and a Moleskine notebook for brain-dumps.
@anita, I use the same Moleskine notebook! (The 18 months soft cover journal, one page calendar, one page notes, here: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/diariesplanners/18_months/) I found that if I write down things with a pen, I remember them more easily. I actually manage to keep everything in that notebook up to date (which wasn't the case with every software solution I tried), so it's really an external backup of my brain ;o) And I love that I don't have to be online, or at a certain computer, or near a power socket to use it, and I don't have to synch it with anything.
In the back pocket of that book, I keep a smaller notebook (one of the Moleskine little insertable ones that came with a previous journal), and I use that for My Big Universal To Do List. I've beem using an adapted version of Mark Forster's Autofocus system (here: http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-system/) for a while now, and for me, it works pretty well so far.
For the inside of the front cover, I crafted a similar pocket out of sturdy paper, and it keeps the little things that usually get lost, like shopping lists, business cards and a small Berlin transit network map.
You should check out Strip. It's a Password Manager and Data Vault that can generate and store your passwords and other secure info like drivers license, cc #s etc.
It's completely customizable, so you can design the templates to suit your organizational preferences.
If you're interested, here's the website http://getstrip.com/c/forum
I'm on the Mac and use DevonThink Pro Office with a ScanSnap S300M. The release of their companion iPhone/iPad touch app is imminent. With the built in OCR, imported documents are searchable and the program's AI will suggest how to group them. Might be overkill for some, but my hobby is genealogy and I was able to reduce two large copy boxes of paper to less than 1 GB on the computer. (Yes, I did keep the handful of original documents that I had, but they only filled one small binder).
I've tried Evernote, lack of export turned me off.
Just a suggestion from a programmer.
Avoid using software. In particular, desktop software that you have to use, or software you have to install. Instead, try to use software that is universal, web-based, and based on open standards. Email is a good example. Email is standardized. You can backup and transfer email. For example, I can store my email on Gmail, and still have a copy at home.
Web based calendars are also good. Text files synced over something like Dropbox. While you install Dropbox on your computer, you don't have to. And even the software exists behind the scene (and is also supports a large number of operating systems).
The best software works with tools you are already using and is platform independent. I avoid tools that don't work equally well on my Mac (at home), Windows (my netbook), Linux (work), iPhone, or my iPad. I can't avoid it for certain things (like my IDE), but I can choose ones that are as platform independent as possible (my IDE works on all 3 OS's).
Be selective. Don't let the software you use limit where you use it.
evernote and gmail cover pretty much everything for me.
i've also been playing with teuxdeux....it syncs between macbook and iphone; it is very simple, clean and fast.
if things won't work with the iphone, i won't even consider them.
I use Thunderbird + Lighting(calender) add on from Mozilla. Syncs between my computer and smartphone (android) via Gmail/Calender.
A 4"x6" 18 month pocket calendar and a pen. My internet access is too iffy to store things I need on e-mail, and the act of writing things down helps me remember them as much as the actual note. I'm still stubbornly low tech.
I'm in the sixth form. I use the Moleskine weekly notebook (events on the dates page, homework on the right) and my phone, which is an Android one, for other stuff. I only use a physical diary like the Moleskine in termtime, so my phone is what I use in the holidays, and I also use it for things that might need a reminder (eg. library due dates). I'd like to use my phone more but a lot of teachers think that phones = evil, even if you're using it for something constructive.
pen and paper and a free download calendar from the internet good for keeping track of upcoming events-the calendar is stored next to pen and paper. at the start of the week write down all the things that need to be done or are bothering me-love to see all the marked off items-really makes me feel like i am getting things done.
Another resurrected post. I know that Erin has written about Bento on her blog, but I haven't found a discussion thread here in the forum. I found it through Apple's downloads yesterday while looking for nifty widgets for Dashboard, and I'm in organizational heaven!
So far I've added all kinds of family-and-friends related templates (christmas gifts and cards as well as gifts at other times), home projects and management and finances, car and pets, and a little bit of this and that. Wow. Does someone have tips on using it for me? I'm using the 30-day trial right now, but haven't so far found a reason not to purchase a license.
Oh, I'd not heard about Bento - looks lovely, and available for my iPad as well. I'll investigate it further when I have more time.
I use Kontact (KMail+KOrganizer+KAddressBook), though really it's all just syncing with my GMail and my GCal and Google Contacts anyway. I like that though, since I can see the stuff from another computer if I need to, but I have a nice local store for if I'm umm...underground (the only place I usually can't get online is the subway...and I say "usually" because it works in some stations).
Hmmm...would be nice if KOrganizer's "To Do" sync'd with GCal's Tasks though...
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