Time Management In An Instant

17Consider Both Paper and PDA

A personal digital assistant (PDA) may sound like a neat and tidy human being that sits outside your office, but is in fact a small gizmo that lives in your purse or pocket and often does double duty as a phone, camera, Web browser, e-mail receiver, calendar, to-do list, database, and address book (can-opener, flashlight, and smoke detector currently in development). Face-to-face with this digital Swiss army knife of time management, you might think that there was no other option but to go high tech, but many people, after using a PDA for a period of time, are going back to the analog world—that is, paper. If you’re sitting on the fence and can’t quite decide which solution would work best, take the following comparison ...