Quote:>Dear all,
>I have two issues to share with you.
>1. The information I have seen sofar from PSION and the people so
>enthusiasticly working with its products is about hard- and software but
>not about Time Managment. I am about buying a PSION for the reason of Time
>Management.
>a) Which one of you has experience in using an electronic organiser for
> managing your time?
>b) Is there information available about this item?
I haven't seen any such information that is specific to time
management with an electronic organizer. I've taken the workshop from
Priority Manager several times, and gotten a lot out of it. And I've
been able to adapt a lot of that to the Psion 3 and 5.
For now, you pretty much have to study time/priority management
elsewhere, then figure out how you want to do that on the Psion. I
think the Franklin Planner is one of the best for setting your life
goals and priorities, but Priority Manager is much better for contact
management. Day-Timer is useful too.
The Psion 3/5 are particularly good here because of their flexibility.
You can do a lot of customizing on the calendar display. For example,
my calendar is mostly to-do's (many of which repeat -- weekly,
monthly, quarterly, etc.) with a few appointments. So I've customized
my Agenda so that the Day view is all to-do's on the left, all
appointments on the right.
But if your day is more appointments than to-do's, you can customize
your display to show more appointments.
Quote:>2. None of the PSION products has an option for viewing a week having for
>each day one colomn. So 7 (or 5) columns in one view. From a Time
>Management perspective this has my personal preference for having a
>"feeling" for my week schedule.
>c) Does anyone know how to programme a series 3a/c or 5 in such a way
> that a week overview as described above is possible?
I haven't seen anything like this for the Psion. I think that Pocket
Outlook on WinCE 2.0 machines do have a view like this, but otherwise
their calendar is much weaker than Psion's.
And Psion does have a week view, which you can customize. I show
to-do's and appointments in the day view, but only appointments in the
week view. Psion just doesn't have exactly the view you described
above.
With the built-in OPL language, it undoubtedly is possible to write a
program to create such a view of your calendar. But that would not be
a simple, easy project.
And if contact management is important to you, especially planning and
tracking conversations, the Psion 5 is much stronger than the 3a/3c,
because of the ability to insert objects into Data records. When I
need extensive notes about a contact, I insert a Word object into the
record and put my notes there.
I use this not just for conversations that I've had, but conversations
that I'm going to have. Do you ever talk to someone on the phone, then
realize after you hang up that there was one more thing you need to
ask them? Before I call someone, I'll make notes of everything I need
to tell and ask them. As I talk to them, I'll make notes of their
responses.
This is also handy if I think of something that I need to tell
someone, but I don't need to call them right away about it. I'll just
make a note in the Word file I've embedded in their record, listing
the item(s) I need to tell them about. Next time I talk to them, the
note will be there to remind me.
Having a Psion has let me get completely away from carrying a
paper-filled binder. Plus, I can back it up, so if I lose the Psion, I
still have the information and can restore it to my replacement Psion.
Bottom line: A Psion will definitely help you, but (for now at least)
you need to know/learn time management on your own. Like any other
organizing software, if your current time management system is a mess,
the Psion will simply give you a place to put a computerized mess.
>Kind regards,
>Hanno Zoutendijk
>Netherlands
Karl Zadoc
Some lies are necessary. Sometimes the truth is worse. You live long enough,
you find that out.
-- Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode "Lie To Me"
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