How to synchronise your life with the available technology
I've got a cellular phone. Don't we all? Ireland has more cellular phones than people. I am also a disorganised fool with a bad memory. Aren't we all? I like to make use of the extra organiser functions on my phone, a Nokia 6070. Specifically the calendar, to-do and note functions. However updating this can be fiddly and like everything else I'd like to do this stuff on my computer and sync it with the phone. There is a sync software and cable available for this model, but as usual it is only compatable with Microsoft Outlook. This is always the way. Microsoft Outlook is the most popular PIM software in the world and reason is because everything syncs with it.
Out of desparation I have installed Outlook to set up my contacts and calendar. This isn't too bad, but I'm always baffled by the idea that people would use this software for email. It's shite. Even using Outlook Express is better, but on Windows my choice has always been Thunderbird. (I prefer to use kmail on Linux but I don't have that option at present) however the inbuilt address book in Thunderbird is shite. So I'm stuck using Outlook and trying to sync it with Thunderbird. None of these programs are able to export and import reliably. Thunderbird always imports address books in such a bizzare fashion, expecting completely unrealistic fields that I have to spend fucking ages afterwards cleaning up the imported data. This means syncing automatically is out of the question.
Anyone know of a plug-in for Thunderbird that makes the address book useful or allows you to import reliably?
I downloaded a Thunderbird add-on called Noksync that will sync with my phone but it won't import the names correctly and I end up with an address book full of nothing but phone numbers.
This is a pain. In this day and age these things should work better.
Out of desparation I have installed Outlook to set up my contacts and calendar. This isn't too bad, but I'm always baffled by the idea that people would use this software for email. It's shite. Even using Outlook Express is better, but on Windows my choice has always been Thunderbird. (I prefer to use kmail on Linux but I don't have that option at present) however the inbuilt address book in Thunderbird is shite. So I'm stuck using Outlook and trying to sync it with Thunderbird. None of these programs are able to export and import reliably. Thunderbird always imports address books in such a bizzare fashion, expecting completely unrealistic fields that I have to spend fucking ages afterwards cleaning up the imported data. This means syncing automatically is out of the question.
Anyone know of a plug-in for Thunderbird that makes the address book useful or allows you to import reliably?
I downloaded a Thunderbird add-on called Noksync that will sync with my phone but it won't import the names correctly and I end up with an address book full of nothing but phone numbers.
This is a pain. In this day and age these things should work better.