It's been a couple of months now, so I thought I'd provide an update for the 6 of you reading this.

RSS wasn't a big problem for me, or so I thought. Vienna and Google Reader initially teamed up to cover my needs but didn't sync in any way - a small problem that I ignored. I then switched to Google Reader exclusively and liked it, but still missed the convenience of a desktop reader.

Then NetNewsWire 3 came out for free and kinda smooshed Google Reader. I always liked NNW but didn't want to pay for it (cheap!) and Vienna was a strong, free alternative. But NNW 3 had everything I wanted plus - plus! - FTP-based syncing. Thus I was able to solve my syncing problem and enjoy the benefits of a desktop newsreader. Great great solution. Too bad that FTP syncing is going to be deprecated with the next release, dammit.

Will Save For Later is what I tag any links from anywhere that I can't read right now, but will need to look at or want to look at in the future. Until a couple of weeks ago I was using the tag in delicious and subscribing to it in NNW. Kinda weird. Then Instapaper came along and solved everything! It's WSFL all the way, and is perfect. A JavaScript bookmarklet lets me save things to Instapaper, and it's always there when I need it. Instapaper is awesome, just awesome.

I had decided that it'd be nice to sync up online and offline calendars. Truth of the matter is that I don't use offline calendars hardly at all. Ryan had said once, "I bet you don't need offline calendaring." He was right. Google Calendar marches on solo.

Sandy wins pure and simple. I still love the functionality I'd touched on earlier, and the Jott integration is beautiful. I noticed that I haven't set any reminders for myself in the past week or so. Hm.

As mentioned in the Quick Reminders post, there's a lot of To Do stuff I need to track. I've divided them up into dated and undated. Undated to dos are akin to "someday" tasks - things which may or may not take a lot of time, but should/could be done at some point and are not time sensitive. Obviously.

My initial plan was to put these into Yojimbo, but I stopped using Yojimbo altogether as it felt like a dead-end to me. Then there was Remember the Milk which was going to house both my dated and undated to dos... and yet, I went cold on RTM quickly. I just stopped using it. I didn't find it to be compelling enough to warrant my time. Feature-wise, it's got everything but something left me feeling weird about it. (Maybe the UI?)

That brought me back to Backpack, of all places. I'm still on the free plan - and will await the next version to decide on paying for it - but I simply popped in a new list on my home page. This is a regular ol' checkbox list. I find it's getting pretty long but it's also a great dumping ground for little things that pop into my head. It's very very useful. Yes, it's online only, but I can deal.

So far, no solution. I could use Backpack without any real time sensitivity built-in. I could use Things, which is powerful for me at the day job. But I use neither. I suspect that for this stuff I'll end up using a combo of Backpack and Sandy, or maybe just Sandy. This will take a bit of a leap of faith; I'll need to think of Sandy as a REAL TO DO LIST PROGRAM versus just a handy reminder thing.

Yojimbo was acting as my junk drawer. But, again, I wasn't thrilled with it. No solution here either - I'm using a scattering of Stickies and text documents again. Blah.

And there you have it.

For what it's worth, I'm thinking of giving VoodooPad a spin (maybe in place of Backpack?) I've never heard of anyone using it, though.