Best synchronisation tool
I’ve succeeded in getting the JasJam to synchronise with my home computer and various other media. I’ve never been one to do this in the past, and it’s probably cost me the loss of much data.
Now I have to decide the best method or whether to continue doing all of them.
Firstly, I had some trouble with Vista recognising the iMate. After a few successful runs the system suddenly started claiming “Unknown Device”. A trusty Google search suggested changing a setting on the pocket PC, which seems to have done the trick.
Sychronisation works between Outlook and my phone, also Office OneNote. I’m starting to experience the benefits of OneNote, which isn’t as widely used as many other Office programs, but has some handy benefits in storing data. It’s a very logical structure, flexibly imported and presented, and easily searchable.
It’s simple to sync notes between the program and the phone, but is that necessary given Outlook notes also synchronise? Then as I mentioned the other day, Unyverse mobile wiki does the same job on the web. This requires an internet connection, but has the advantage of saving disk space and memory on the mobile device.
Another option is Club iMate’s exchange server. It provides 10MB of free storage for backup synchonisation between the device and a web version of Outlook. It has worked seamlessly for me so far. I’m still to investigate if I can do the same with my work server.
And finally, I’ve installed a pro version of EssentialPIM on my USB flash drive. It’s a personal organiser which synchronises data between the program, Outlook and a pocket PC.
So many choices? At the moment I’m testing all of them before I decide which one is best.
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
