[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Chronos Group Organizer and Missing Sync

[Dave Butenhof]

> From: Jan Erik Moström <lists at mostrom.pp.se>
> On 2004-12-08 11:11, Dave Butenhof <dbutenhof at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> NOW is also working on a new version, which will perhaps solve 
>> C/UTD's problems.
>
> Since I was just considering to switch to Now (just because of GO sync
> problems) could you tell me what the problems with Now is?

Somewhere on this list (you can check archives through 
http://lists.markspace.com/mailman/listinfo/missing-sync-palmos-talk) 
there have been several postings from people who've used NOW and were 
"unimpressed".

Mostly it's "look and feel" issues, though I never got so far as trying 
to set up NOW servers -- the reason I'm using Group Organizer is to 
share calendar and contacts with my wife, so that's important. I 
fiddled around with the NOW demo trying to get the sync set up with my 
Palm, and it wasn't nearly as smooth as with Organizer. (For example, 
it can't even figure out what categories are in Calendar, though it 
seems to think it supports Palm categories.) Others have complained 
about sorting, about field organization and sizes.

I actually got motivated to poke around a little more with NOW the 
other day, but my demo period had run out. Deleting "the obvious stuff" 
doesn't reset the demo period, and I'm not really motivated to work 
harder at it.

Really, it sounds as if NOW is going to be the only practical or 
affordable group calendar/contact software for Palm/Mac for a long 
time. So if anyone has anything GOOD to say about NOW, I'd love to hear 
it.