Data Organization

Once you’ve planned something for a certain time on a certain day, how many times do you need to reschedule it? Personally, I do that more times than I want to. Say you plan to call up an old friend for a get-together this weekend. There is a high probability that something else will come up before then. Either you or your friend may get caught up with something else.

Hence, it's important for us to be able to easily edit, reschedule and/or remove planned appointments. With paper, you can easily cancel the current appointment details and write in a new one. Provided you have enough space, of course. That can be a challenge if you have a lot of appointments to begin with.

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Numerous cancellations and rescheduling can make your schedule look messy, and hard to read. After several alterations, you may not be able to check out your schedule at a glance. Of course, you can use some liquid paper (white-out to some of you) to make things neater, but do you really have that much time?

Enter Windows Mobile. Appointments can be rescheduled just by sliding it from one time/day slot to another. No rewriting required.

Deleting appointments are also a breeze. Just hold the stylus on the relevant appointment and tapping the Delete Appointment command in the pop-up window. Any appointment detail can also be easily edited without any tell-tale correction marks that make paper organizers look so messy.

In today’s fast-paced world where everybody need to free up as much time as they can, it makes perfect sense to switch to a PDA phone. Organizing your schedule becomes a real breeze. An investment here can more than repay you in time and money.

Work Space

With a PDA phone, the work space is small. Really small. After all, most PDA phones have a screen that is only about 2.8” wide... diagonally.

On a positive note, viewing notes and appointments are easy because of the uniform size and shape of digital fonts.

I personally love a large space to write on and do my work, but while you can get paper organizers that are as large as A4 in size, the actual work space on even these big paper organizers are pretty limited.

Take for example, this large paper organizer. A single page actually encompasses appointments and notes for three days. So, the actualy paper seem pretty big, their actual amount of space you have to work with is really small. It is also inflexible as you cannot extend the work space for more appointments, or reduce it for fewer appointments.

Unless you buy a large blank notepad to do your organizing (which would be really odd and inconvenient since you won’t have printed timelines and dates to help you), the work space available on a paper organizer is really not superior to a PDA phone. In fact, PDA phones are often more flexible as they allow you to add as many appointments and notes as you want.