Now I can finally get excited about Android

When I reluctantly gave up my Palm (because they were going out of business and had just officially announced the end of Palm OS) and I picked up the HTC Droid Incredible I was more than a little excited. There was such hoopla regarding the Android OS and the new smartphone specs were really impressive. BUT (that's a BIG BUT) coming from a Palm, where PIM apps reigned supreme, I was totally depressed when I discovered that Android had NO decent PIM apps to speak of at all.

For me, the most important of them was an outliner. I was an avid user of Natara's Bonsai and when I discovered that all of my outlines were basically rendered useless a long bout of depression set in. Every free moment I had was spent looking for an app to take its place and every search ended in disappointment and heartache. That is, till the other day. November 30th, 2010. That's the day another hopeless search for an "outliner" through Android's Market returned a surprising result... Android Outliner... huh? Android Outliner? Where the heck have you been?

I've searched in Android user forums, participated in gripe sessions about the need for this application, always hearing that because of the way Android OS is developed, we would never see any decent PIM apps on Android at all.

Then this shocker... someone was working on this all along. AND....it will sync with Bonsai!!! At least, that's what the developer promises. For now, you can import and export to Bonsai. I'll take it. It's in beta now but I'm loving it. As soon as it's commercially available out of beta I will be purchasing the "pro" version to get my organization back on track. Thank you, Alfred Fritz, for this long-awaited app. You've brought back the excitement of holding an organized life in the palm of my hand again. I may even begin to stop missing my Palm TX.