Dec 15
Former Palm Users Transition to Droid GuideFormer Palm Centro user here, switched to Droid on release. Palm to Droid:Contacts, Tasks, Calendar Events, and Memos Sync:
use CompanionLink:Sync your desktop software with Google and your phoneit's a time-limited trial, but you only need to sync once. I tried a buncha methods and this was the easiest and most comprehensive. It sends To-Do Lists to google calendar (not the most elegant solution but may have changed since then), and Memos to Contacts as |M| Your Memo Title |M| - also very inelegant but what can you do. For Tasks:
I now use gTasks; syncs with Google tasks in Gmail; sync is wonky at times, but I like to have laptop access to my tasks list so the sync is key for me;For Memos:
I now use GDocs Notepad; syncs with Google Docs; wish companionlink woulda linked my old memos to my google docs, but hey you can't have everything I guess. My new memos are now sync'd with Google docs, and I can easily archive them in google docs when i'm not using the memos as much; i still miss having all my old memos easily accessible, but eh I'll live =) I mean on second though Memo to Contacts actually works okay because search will pick up the titles of the memos...I guess i miss the "search all the memo text search" that palm had... For Calendar:
Use google calendar; love it;For Contacts:
Use Gmail contacts; takes a while to clean everything up after sync with companionlink, but having all your email, phone, physical addresses, etc in one place is unbelievably awesome. Cheers!
Former Palm Users Transition to Droid Guide
From minyangmao :Former Palm Users Transition to Droid GuideFormer Palm Centro user here, switched to Droid on release. Palm to Droid:Contacts, Tasks, Calendar Events, and Memos Sync:
use CompanionLink:Sync your desktop software with Google and your phoneit's a time-limited trial, but you only need to sync once. I tried a buncha methods and this was the easiest and most comprehensive. It sends To-Do Lists to google calendar (not the most elegant solution but may have changed since then), and Memos to Contacts as |M| Your Memo Title |M| - also very inelegant but what can you do. For Tasks:
I now use gTasks; syncs with Google tasks in Gmail; sync is wonky at times, but I like to have laptop access to my tasks list so the sync is key for me;For Memos:
I now use GDocs Notepad; syncs with Google Docs; wish companionlink woulda linked my old memos to my google docs, but hey you can't have everything I guess. My new memos are now sync'd with Google docs, and I can easily archive them in google docs when i'm not using the memos as much; i still miss having all my old memos easily accessible, but eh I'll live =) I mean on second though Memo to Contacts actually works okay because search will pick up the titles of the memos...I guess i miss the "search all the memo text search" that palm had... For Calendar:
Use google calendar; love it;For Contacts:
Use Gmail contacts; takes a while to clean everything up after sync with companionlink, but having all your email, phone, physical addresses, etc in one place is unbelievably awesome. Cheers!
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