iPod touch Is/Can the ITouch Serve as a PDA?

[Orng]

I am also considering an iPod Touch, and I've only played with one for half an hour or so at the store.

With that understood, just keep in mind that it is not intended to be used as a PDA, and if you expect it to be a PDA, you may have some frustrations. You CAN get PDA functionality out of it, but some people may understate what they need to do to pull that off. For some people, workarounds and hacks are easy, or fun, and they can quickly forget when describing to others, that others may not find it easy and/or fun.

That being said, you'll probably love it as a PDA, I think I will, but I'm going in aware of the fact that I will probably have to engage in some easy and fun (?) workarounds to get it to the point that suits my needs.

I'm actually torn myself; I'm getting either a MBP; or an iMac with a Touch. Just trying to decide if the touch will support my mobile computing needs (uh, web and email, maybe some light google docs editing) and if I can live with continuing to have video editing and graphics tethered to my desk.

Anyone have any luck with Google docs on the Touch?

 

[Dirk the Daring]

I'm currently using a UX-50 with agendus, and it's getting a bit long in the tooth (and missing sync doesn't work in leopard. Ugh.) So I started messing with my iPod touch-- did a jailbreak and toyed with the available apps.

I'm quite pleased, and about ready to try using it in place of my palm, except for one thing-- It seems to lack todo lists. I don't need them to sync to my mac, I just want a fairly robust todo system on the device.

Does anyone know of a decent todo program out there for the touch?

 

[dagored]

It is in installer. It is called MobileToDoList. Works great.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

It's a very good basic todo list handler, but it doesn't have, for example, recurring todos.

I rely on this a lot on my palm.

 

[apsterling]

I'm actually torn myself; I'm getting either a MBP; or an iMac with a Touch. Just trying to decide if the touch will support my mobile computing needs (uh, web and email, maybe some light google docs editing) and if I can live with continuing to have video editing and graphics tethered to my desk.

Anyone have any luck with Google docs on the Touch?

As for Google Docs, no success. I tried, but I failed.

Get the MBP- I hate being tethered down- after using even a crappy Dell laptop, it feels bad. I loved being able to use my computer immediately after waking up, not having to get out of bed to use it. I can take my iMac places, but it's not the easiest to move around (20 lbs in box, with keyboard, mouse, and whatnot, still, for mornings at Mom's office, it can work alright)