Mac OSX as a PIM?

Posted by Captain CowPie
Jun 12, 2007 at 03:13 PM

I have been seriously contemplating getting a Mac in a month or two, and have been watching the Keynote by Steve Jobs on the new Leopard. If anyone is using a Mac and has looked at the features of Leopard, do you think OSX and its components could be used as a PIM? I have never used a Mac before.

I have been using InfoSelect for years and recently ventured into do Organizer, mainly because they are all in one packages with good search capabilities (and include built-in email). But looking at Leopard, it seems that the search function is much more useful and integrated than in Windows. It looks like you could find documents pretty quickly if you produced them in any software, possibly negating the need for a program with such a search function.

I was wondering if the built-in Calendar, email, etc. were integrated enough so that you could link lets say email or appointments to a contact? If there is not a good outliner could you purchase one and link to these in any way? Omni looks like it has great products (OmniFocus looks especially interesting for GTD) as does Devonthink and Tinderbox. Could I use one of these products as my main repository and be able to link in email, appointments, etc.?

Sorry for the ramble but I don’t see an all-in-one package (including email) for the Mac and that has me leary of a move.

Thanks,
Vince