You bring up a good point about doublechecking the real need for a PDA. I've avoided it for years, but I finally have to give in to the fact:

I Have No Brain

No, I take that back, Outlook is my brain... only at work. Tasks track every project and record every history, the calendar tracks one time and recurring scheduled events and how I've spent my time, contacts are automatically horded from e-mail, and IMAP keeps all my communications. At work, that's four years of information, fully searchable, easily accessed and viewed.

I just need that in my home life. Phone numbers are hidden in .TXT files on my desktop, tasks are stacks of papers on my floor, one time events written in my pocket calendar, recurring events long since dribbled out my ear and onto the floor.

I'd love a portable brain to remind me, record fleeting thoughts, stabilize my ToDo list, never get me lost, check spelling and meaning (dictionary), and store pictures to save me those thousands of words. Heck, the only thing I don't need it to do is play music, which is constantly echoing around in my empty skull.

(i hate being braindead. i am currently very frustrated with my total inability to think, remember, converse, react, decide, etc. so so frustrating.)