Home Work Station and Office Work Station Integration

[mehorrell]

Hi,

Currently I am having problems try to integrate my personal workstation and office workstation. I have a desktop computer at work and laptop computer at home and both are using outlook. I have been trying to us my palm as a media to transfer information between the two but does not quit transfer right. Does any one have any ideas on how integrate the GTD methods when you have two different workstations?

thank you

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[TesTeq]

I have been trying to us my palm as a media to transfer information between the two but does not quit transfer right.
As far as I know it works for some members of this forum. What problems do you have?

[mehorrell]

Currently I have the GTD plug installed on my home and work computers. When I synchronize my palm with one none of the configurations transfer to they other specifically task groupings. What systems are you using?

[mikes]

I've not yet been brave enough to do it yet, but I'm testing the file syncing capabilities of FolderShare... there is stuff out there that says this will work, and I can verify that it does work across NAT and most firewalls. You should be able to sync the Outlook.pst file from one machine to the other and retain everything that way.

On the palm side, you're SOL if you use the addin or many of the other fields in outlook, because once you sync, you loose everything that is not included in the palm task (e.g. project info, action context, etc).

Have fun!

Mike

[Broto]

This approach doesn't use a PDA, but maybe this will help.

I've been using an external hard drive (80 GB) to store everything that's active, both at Work and Home. I use SyncbackSE to keep the data sync'd between the HDD at work and home (customized to keep work data from my home laptop and vice versa). For Outlook, I just backup the OST file from both Work and Home into the drive.

The FolderShare approach will work too but I wouldn't put any personal data online without encrypting it. And if you use the data frequently, you'll need to decrypt it every time - kind of a hassle.

I've used a PDA-based (Pocket PC) solution for this before, but have found that most PDA sync software (I've used Intellisync, MightySync and others) either don't handle file transfers well (if at all), or doesn't reliably sync data if customized.