It Just Works (Almost).

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I got used to taking notes on paper and copying those notes to my computer, once my Palm died a few years ago, because I was just too tired of carrying a phone and another electronic device. Calendar? Print off yet another page of Google Calendar. Bleh. When I bought my phone this summer, I hoped to solve the problem of keeping data on it instead. The only problem was a calendar.

This was supposed to be easy: run iSync, which will synchronize iCal and Address Book to the phone. But mine silently failed to connect with iCal. I just figured out why: all of my calendars were read-only, because they were in turn synced off the web. Once I created a new calendar in iCal it worked.

I'm pleased that this will finally work for me, and I'm also pleased about the magic nature of Bluetooth: I can push data to my phone by pressing a key on my laptop. When the phone's in my pocket. Or briefcase.

In addition to having a writable calendar on my phone, I also have my to-do errands list, which is synced from a web program called Tracks. This should be an improvement over copying to-do items to paper, as well.

Though I'm certainly still going to carry the paper and pen.