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Permit me an evil laugh. Mwa ha ha ha haaaa. I can’t stop playing with my new Gerber Recoil multi-tool. Please don’t think that I have abandoned my beloved Leatherman Wave, no, we’ve been through too much for me to simply banish it to the bottom of the junk drawer. But the Gerber. Wow. My Precioussss.

The most striking feature about this multi-tool is the stiletto action that the pliers have. Push a button (who doesn’t like pushing buttons?) and they spring forward out of the handles, clacking into position with a satisfying, er, clack. Something between a thump and a clack. Thlack? Claump? There are probably other tools on this multi-tool but really, stiletto pliers, what else could you possibly need?

I’ve been using Scrybe for a little while now and I’m wondering what other people think of it. I think the offline sync is a killer feature and there is also a nifty “paper” sync that allows you to carry your schedule in your pocket if that’s how you like to roll. I don’t care much for the zoom-in-zoom-out thing that it does but I can live with it, it seemed much cooler in the video but I think it gets old pretty fast. My biggest issue with the app is that I can’t store my contacts. The storage space in my brain is full of various Star Wars, Tron, Star Trek, Transformers, Big Lebowski, Douglas Adams, Hunter Thompson, and Simpsons trivia so I don’t have room to remember numbers, addresses, names, etc. I find these things helpful when making appointments. So I’m not completely sold on Scrybe yet.

I suppose that I could use the software that is included with my Mac (calendar.app, address book.app, etc.) but that creates extra work for me because I have to back all that stuff up and “syncing” with Google is kind of a pain, especially since it’s a one-way sync. Oh yeah, at work I use Outlook on a PC (which makes me feel unclean) and I wouldn’t mind having all of that data available with my personal data, online and off. I guess there is no easy answer. There is no one calendar/contact/email app to rule them all and paper does not work well for me. Any suggestions?