What I'd like to see is a way to have dated To Dos show up in the Date Book. Ultimately, this should be functionality added by the folks at Palm Computing, but I'd settle for some form of add-on that did this as well.

I still do use this application, but mainly to keep checklists of things to do that aren't really a very high priority. Or, perhaps things that if they're not done on certain date, the world as I know it won't end.

Now, there are add-on applications that you can use instead of the To Do List. To Do Plus even allows you to put an alarm on each To Do item, and applications like BrainForest and ThoughtMill allow you to organize your To Do lists into an outline format. I've found that I do use these type of applications for To Do lists that have a lot of "sub" items, but will still use the Date Book as mentioned above for things I'd like to make sure I get done.

Memo Pad
Within my Memo Pad application, I keep little notes to myself about various programs, games, things to do, etc. As stated above, I keep notes here during the course of writing my book, as well as things like game cheat codes, ideas I had for various articles, and lists of programs/books/games that I've lent to various people. In fact, coupled with the Find Feature and categories, the Memo Pad application makes a very nice little text only database type application. The added benefit is that because it's a built-in application, you can easily move information to and from it using the desktop software. The only bad thing about the Memo Pad is that you're limited to memos of less than 4K. For larger documents, you'll want to look at applications like AportisDoc Pro (not yet available) and BrainForest, ThoughtMill, and HiNote, all of which allow you to write notes quite a bit larger than 4K.

Conclusion
As you can see, despite the large number of add-on applications available for the PalmPilot, some of the most useful applications that you can run on it are built right in. While there certainly are a lot of things that can't be done with the built-in applications, there are quite a few things that can, especially given the flexibility that things like categories and attached notes provide. If you're someone that is running a little short of room on your PalmPilot, take another look at the built-in applications, perhaps they could be used instead of that extra add-on application!

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