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I see now that this is a novel, so skip down to the second to last paragraph to cut to the chase. Readers digest version - using iSync with a Palm PDA makes memos not sync anywhere anymore.
So after switching to my Mac Mini I buy a Palm Zire 31 to upgrade from my long in the tooth and dying Palm IIIxe, looking forward to coming up into the 21st century and have my PDA sync with my Mac. So I install the Palm Desktop software, hotsync manager and it pretty much looks like it did in the Windows world so okay then. As things go along I notice that actually things do not work quite like they did in the PC world. Specifically the Calendar function has no real non-kludgy way to add notes to appointment. I find there is a procedure, but it's difficult to follow and doesn't seem to work all that well. I'm a pretty smart guy, but I didn't buy a Mac to make my life more difficult so this is kind of disappointing. And by disappointing I mean a major catastrophe. I use the note attachment to appointments pretty extensively and not being able to easily cut/paste notes on calendar entries is a major step backwards.
So I check out the iSync stuff. That's supposed to make the Palm sync up with the native iCal and address book and should work great right? Also I had been seeing little snippets out on the web that PalmOne's support for the Mac platform with the desktop is less than stellar, in fact possibly to the point of disasterous. So a few trips out to some websites to determine how to get the iSync conduit working and the address app going and hook 'em up. After this is done, I note that all of my contacts which have been transferred that are in categories on my Palm are all lumped into one big category called "All". Well, that was unexpected, but really it's kind of okay since I rarely use the address book on the computer since I'm usually looking for someone's phone number or other stuff when I'm out in the world anyway. Also if I do need someone's number the search will bring it up and I'm not caring too much which category it's in. So this is not a Big Deal. The calendar, however works great, with all notes coming over and easy to attach in iCal. No categories there either but I never use categories. After all if I gotta be somewhere does it really matter whether it's for personal or work? I'm not an hourly contractor, so that's not a big deal either.
What is a Big Deal is that a couple of days later I note that my Memo Pad notes are not getting synced over. I note this when my wife for some reason refuses to beam her shopping list in favor of me inputting into my Palm. Rather than grafitti in her dictation I type pretty fast, so I'll type it into the desktop and then sync it over like it's supposed to work. One sync later, and the memo isn't there. Uh oh. Modify another memo and sync. Nope. Modify on the palm and sync. No joy. This is A Bad Thing. I spend half an hour when I should be at the grocery store trying to figure out how to get it to sync again. Nothing I do, disabling iSync, forcing the conduit in hotsync manager, nada, zip zilch will get my memos to sync anymore.
So is this a bug, or is there any way for me to get my memo pad functionality or am I screwed? The memo feature is one of the main functions of a Palm PDA and I can't believe that iSync would break this basic functionality.
So after switching to my Mac Mini I buy a Palm Zire 31 to upgrade from my long in the tooth and dying Palm IIIxe, looking forward to coming up into the 21st century and have my PDA sync with my Mac. So I install the Palm Desktop software, hotsync manager and it pretty much looks like it did in the Windows world so okay then. As things go along I notice that actually things do not work quite like they did in the PC world. Specifically the Calendar function has no real non-kludgy way to add notes to appointment. I find there is a procedure, but it's difficult to follow and doesn't seem to work all that well. I'm a pretty smart guy, but I didn't buy a Mac to make my life more difficult so this is kind of disappointing. And by disappointing I mean a major catastrophe. I use the note attachment to appointments pretty extensively and not being able to easily cut/paste notes on calendar entries is a major step backwards.
So I check out the iSync stuff. That's supposed to make the Palm sync up with the native iCal and address book and should work great right? Also I had been seeing little snippets out on the web that PalmOne's support for the Mac platform with the desktop is less than stellar, in fact possibly to the point of disasterous. So a few trips out to some websites to determine how to get the iSync conduit working and the address app going and hook 'em up. After this is done, I note that all of my contacts which have been transferred that are in categories on my Palm are all lumped into one big category called "All". Well, that was unexpected, but really it's kind of okay since I rarely use the address book on the computer since I'm usually looking for someone's phone number or other stuff when I'm out in the world anyway. Also if I do need someone's number the search will bring it up and I'm not caring too much which category it's in. So this is not a Big Deal. The calendar, however works great, with all notes coming over and easy to attach in iCal. No categories there either but I never use categories. After all if I gotta be somewhere does it really matter whether it's for personal or work? I'm not an hourly contractor, so that's not a big deal either.
What is a Big Deal is that a couple of days later I note that my Memo Pad notes are not getting synced over. I note this when my wife for some reason refuses to beam her shopping list in favor of me inputting into my Palm. Rather than grafitti in her dictation I type pretty fast, so I'll type it into the desktop and then sync it over like it's supposed to work. One sync later, and the memo isn't there. Uh oh. Modify another memo and sync. Nope. Modify on the palm and sync. No joy. This is A Bad Thing. I spend half an hour when I should be at the grocery store trying to figure out how to get it to sync again. Nothing I do, disabling iSync, forcing the conduit in hotsync manager, nada, zip zilch will get my memos to sync anymore.
So is this a bug, or is there any way for me to get my memo pad functionality or am I screwed? The memo feature is one of the main functions of a Palm PDA and I can't believe that iSync would break this basic functionality.