Tracking gigs on a Palm?

[Monte]

Do any of you use your Palm Pilot to track your music expenses, mileage, and
how much you got paid for each gig? I just got a Palm, and I love the
Expense section for keeping track of mileage, repairs, money spent for
lessons, strings, etc., but I'm finding it hard to find a place to notate
money made. The freeware programs I've found are all based on hourly, not
per job. I want something that works like the Expenses, where you can
download it to an Excel spreadsheet that you can print out at tax time. Any
advice?

Monte

[Phil Smith]

I don't own a palm but what's to keep you from creating an expense category called say "payments" and entering the amounts in that category?

[anonymous0726]

Get a PocketPC and use and an Excel spreadsheet

[Monte]

Originally posted by Phil Smith
I don't own a palm but what's to keep you from creating an expense category called say "payments" and entering the amounts in that category?

Doh!! That's way too easy, and that syncs to Excel. Why didn't I think of that! Thanks for the help.

Monte

[dhosek]

Another really nice program for the palm is PocketQuicken. If you use Quicken on your PC, you can use PQ to let you enter transactions on the palm and sync to Quicken. Very very nice.

-dh

[Danny Adair]

dhosek:

Does Quicken automatically import PQ data into Quicken? If so, that progam will be on my Palm very, very soon.

I am a huge fan of using the Palm for tracking music-related stuff! I can definitively take or decline gigs without worry of double-booking, I never lose phone numbers or venue addresses, etc. Very worthwhile.

[Monte]

Originally posted by Danny Adair
dhosek:.

I am a huge fan of using the Palm for tracking music-related stuff! I can definitively take or decline gigs without worry of double-booking, I never lose phone numbers or venue addresses, etc. Very worthwhile.

I'm with you there. I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. An added bonus is that my daytimer looked like #%&*(@# because every musician I know changes addresses, cell #'s, etc. with regularity. In one week it has paid for itself as I've gotten lots of calls for Christmas gigs and I can quickly see what I'm booked for, make a to do list to remind myself of contracts I need to mail, put in directions, this thing is great.

As a side note, if anyone is looking for a palm, I highly recommend a guy who sells them on E-bay with the user ID stevesel . I'm very wary of buying stuff on E-Bay so I watched him for about a month and he had great feedback. He throws in lots of extra goodies (screen protecter, cd full of freeware, etc) and is great at answering questions. I got my Palm IIIx with memory expanded to 8mb for $107.

Monte

[dhosek]

Originally posted by Danny Adair
dhosek:
Does Quicken automatically import PQ data into Quicken? If so, that progam will be on my Palm very, very soon.

Yep. It's pretty much a one-way transfer: You enter transactions into PQ and then at sync it gets put into an update queue for Quicken and when you next start Quicken, it will import your transactions. Very nice.

In the opposite direction, all it does is send the current balance-according to quicken for your bank, credit and cash accounts. I've assigned it the "todo" button on my palm.

-dh (who's kind of wishing he could come up with a valid excuse to dump his Vx for a 505).