It’s been a month now that I have been using a Palm Pilot instead of my very trusty DayTimer, traditional notebook setup and I have to say, I’m hooked. While at times the lifelong habit of taking notes with pen and paper is still something my hand and mind want to do, the switch to a completely digital world has been a good one.

I have been using a program called Bonsai to tack projects and to-dos. It is fast, simple to use and nicely designed. But it didn’t do enough for me. It was a good introduction to the Palm path however and I don’t regret starting with it. Now I’m using a product from CodeJedi called Shadow. (’Your shadow follows you everywhere you go…’) It’s much more complex, but also much more useful to me.

Now, I can create outlines of my project tasks and processes and associate Palm tasks and notes with each line item. It even automates many of these features. Better still, there are both Mac OS X and PC desktop apps that work nicely with the files. (The Mac version being I think superior to the PC in design, too.) Given I work on both environments, that’s a real plus.