Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is managing multiple phones and PDAs. Andrew writes in, I have a smartphone for business

and another personal phone. What's the best way to make the most out of these phones? Should I

keep the business phone for business only?

Great question, Andrew.

Your employer gave you a separate phone for a reason.

Your employer gave you that phone so you could do your job more easily,

schedule appointments using the company scheduling system,

and coordinate with the company's internal systems.

They figured you would toss your personal phone, finally realizing deep in your gut that you exist only to serve,

and you may as well face up to the reality of the omnipotent dominance of your corporate

masters. Should you sync your work phone with your personal phone? Well, you don't want to

throw away your personal phone, so your ideal solution is to use modern synchronization technology

to make both phones do everything for your personal and work lives.

Then you can use either phone and the other becomes a spare.

If you lose your personal phone at a Toga soap bubble and foam party,

it's no problem.

Your business phone takes over until you find the personal phone

somewhere unspeakable,

but clean, very, very clean. That's all just a fantasy, however. In the fantasy, synchronization

works perfectly. Politicians have your best interest at heart, and Oreo ice cream cake has no

calories. It's not real. Synchronization isn't perfect. Appointments get dropped,

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