Need to organise my life - Bento / Mac Freelancer or something else?

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I am freelance at the moment and I need to organise my life.

As I only work a couple of days a week I find remembering tasks from week to week to difficult and a simple paper todo list in my diary is not sufficient.

Has anyone used Bento? Is it any good?

I've also looked at Freelancer for mac but I'm not sure if this is entirely necessary.

Basically I'm looking for Microsoft Office type product with calendar, task list, contacts, mail etc that will use my gmail address.

You can actually do all of that with what you already have on the Mac- iCal, Address Book and Mail all work together to do exactly what you want, as far as I can see. You can extend it to sync up with your phone (probably- depends exactly which one you have) and even other computers if you set up a Google calendar and enable syncing.

I haven't looked at Bento for a while but when I did I couldn't understand why anyone would buy it as you can do all those things with the stuff you have anyway.

Prism you are right, I suppose I like Microsoft office as it's all in one place rather than having to open 4 different applications. I realise this is probably just being precious.

I've just downloaded a free trial of Things which seems to be a very good todo list. I, too, couldn't make head nor tail of what Bento was supposed to do.