Syncing PDA

[Christopher Browne]

On 1/15/07, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Now comes the search for calendar, todo and contacts software that works
> > with the PDA.  I currently use remind and abook but, I do not believe
> > they sync with PalmOS.
>
> I use jpilot (http://www.jpilot.org/ , available as a package for most
> distros) and have for about five years.  A couple years back it was
> miles ahead of kpilot (http://cvs.codeyard.net/kpilot/) - I doubt
> that's the case anymore but look into both yourself.

The thing that impresses me about JPilot is that there's an addon
module for managing secret things like passwords.  On Debian and
related systems, this is offered in the "jpilot-plugins" package, and
it provides a fullscale GUI module, as part of JPilot, which syncs
with the PalmOS application "GNU Keyring," which does on-PalmOS DES3
encryption.

To me, that's the 5th "killer app" on the Palm (the others being
calendar, todo, address book, and notes).

> Syncing to
> jpilot doesn't preclude using other sync methods such as the Palm
> desktop on Windows or pilot-xfer.  Both of [jk]pilot are GUIs, not
> text-based.  One advantage that jpilot retains is that it's small and
> has very few dependencies.  If you find a text-based app that syncs
> all the info off a Palm, let me know!

You can pull everything off readily enough using pilot-link
components.  That doesn't give you an address book, calendar, or such,
per se...
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