I'm the most scatter-brained person on the planet (well, ok, not the most, my friend Jo [named changed to protect the scatter-brained] is possibly worse, I think her cell phone spends more time in other people's houses than in hers).

So anyway, I need a lot of tools to protect myself - notepads, cell phones, whatever, as long as it follows me around and yells at me. (Why do I say this? Because I forgot my cell phone yesterday and missed two meetings. My brain is, shall we say, special.)

But I finally got it ironed out yesterday, and this is the set up that I've got working in my office to help me stay organized:

1. Outlook. I'm sorry to all you lotus or google calendar types, but Outlook beats the pants off of any other mail/calendaring/task application for the office. (I also don't like Google's labelling system for mail, since my work breaks down easily into distinct folders, and I like the ability to add reminders and priorities to my email too.)

   I know you can do some of that in Google, but it's still veeery clumsy. As well, Outlook has journaling capability, which I really like to use. I just really like the Outlook interface: it's tight. However, I use GMail and GCal to hold all my appointments and emails, rather than Exchange, because that way I can keep my life and my various work on the same screen wherever I am. Google is the best for multiple calendars, web calendars, and webmail. By far.

2. Remember the milk: task management for the rest of us.
3. Pocket Outlook: For those times I'm away from my desk.

The problem is syncing all this stuff: my cell phone, Google calendar, gmail, my work email, and my RTM tasks.

Luckily, I found a few ways. I use OggSync for my Google calendars to my cell phone, and RemoteCalendars to get my Google work calendar into a two-way sync with Outlook (in fact, it replaces the default Outlook calendar so you never get confused. Which I have been known to do.) I use MilkSync to get my tasks onto my phone, where I use them the most often.

However, I am missing one thing - getting RTM tasks to replace Outlook tasks. RemoteCalendars chokes on RTM feeds for some reason. Anybody have any suggestions?