AKICILJ: Calendars

[carbonel]

I was in the process of entering something in my desktop calendar when I realized that this was the Palm Desktop calendar, and I'm no longer using my Palm Treo; I'm now using a hand-me-down iPhone 3. So I need a new calendar program for my desktop, since I assume the iPhone doesn't want to talk to the Palm Desktop.

I'm a Windows user, but I've only used Outlook for business purposes (with Exchange), so I don't have any strong incentive to switch from Palm Desktop to Outlook if there's something else that people recommend. And I very much don't want to use Outlook for e-mail, if that matters. I'm not even sure if it's possible to set up a new profile in Outlook without associating it with an e-mail address.

I have an iPad as well, so I want something that will work with that also, but I assume that's trivial.

I also need a contacts manager, I guess; in the Palm Desktop, they're integrated, but on the iPhone and iPad, the calendar and contacts manager are two separate apps. Or I need something that combines both.

Comments or suggestions welcome.

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

To be honest I can't remember how I set it up, but I get on well having my iphone sync to a google calendar, and updates go both ways. It does involve having your calendar in the grubby mitts of Google, but that's not bothered me.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

I use Google (we're Google Apps at work) for calendar. It syncs well with iPhone, iPad, and computer. For contacts I just sync through iTunes, so it's not always immediately up-to-date. But that's less critical for me.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

If you could use a generic interface like iCalendar or vCalendar, it might make it easier to do this the next time. I agree with avoiding Outlook at all costs.

(I use kOrganizer on Linux, but that's not going to help you...)