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What should I use? Outlook? Palm? Smartphone? Blackberry? Quicken? QuickBooks? Customer tracking? Accounting 2008? What? All these companies want to be the total solutions providers. I don’t want 50 solutions. My personal finances are extensive, I work for a big company in sales, I own a small company that sells product on the Internet, and I attend Grad school. Advice please? I am extremely organized and would like to have one system handle it all. Is that possible? I am thinking QuickBooks for my business, Outlook Business Contact Manager for my full time job in sales, Quicken for my personal finance, and Palm Treo 755, but would prefer Blackberry.To me that seems like to many programs. Any experience with Microsoft Accounting and how it works with Outlook Business Contact Manager.Can that perhaps replace Quicken and QuickBooks and my existing Outlook. Perhapes that can handle it all. Blackberry, Smartphone, or Palm? I travel and want acces to everything? Advice? What would you do?

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hello - I&#039;m in a similar situation - and I&#039;d aim for two systems actually - one for your full time job - keep that separate from the rest of your life, in case there are any issues later you can show it was all separate and clean.  I like outlook for work.

Then one other for the Internet business, personal finance and grad school stuff.  personally I have found the ones that work best for me and my clients are the ones they can &quot;r4elate&quot; to.  So the ones that they one for the first time and feel comfortable with and find intuitive.   recently mint.com has made some changes, and you actually may find it useful, but personally I use a spreadsheet for my side businesses (I have two) and personal finances, it works well, one doc with all info and i find it easy for me.  i have access to all when i travel as I have a primary job blackberry with all that info on it, and my personal stuff is on my personal bb or on line for easy access.  

good luck -