Considering The Purchase Of A Hipster PDA

By Daniel Miessler on August 9th, 2005: Tagged as GTD | Productivity

I love my Blackberry but I hate its organizer. For that role I much prefer a Palm device. Anyway, without a good PDA lately I’ve been running around with a ton of open loops, which is bad.

That’s when I decided I should just get a small notepad and use one page per inbox item (GTD). Then I realized that there’s a system that uses a similar concept — the hipster PDA.

Anyone have any comments on this solution?

  • Matthew

    I’d say use whatever works best for you. Personally I got a Palm Tungsten|C which I find preferable to lugging lots of paper around and the fact that it syncs with Outlook makes life easier. The trick to any organizational system, is finding one that you are comfortable using, because if you put a schedule item in your PDA or on a piece of paper, but don’t check it later, then writing it down was pointless. For me the big advantage of puttting my schedule in Outlook and on my PDA is that I have audible alarms that yell at me when I need to do something.

  • Matthew

    I’d say use whatever works best for you. Personally I got a Palm Tungsten|C which I find preferable to lugging lots of paper around and the fact that it syncs with Outlook makes life easier. The trick to any organizational system, is finding one that you are comfortable using, because if you put a schedule item in your PDA or on a piece of paper, but don’t check it later, then writing it down was pointless. For me the big advantage of puttting my schedule in Outlook and on my PDA is that I have audible alarms that yell at me when I need to do something.


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