Organizing your life: low-tech or hi-tech?

Honestly, I'd love to use a PDA. The only problem that I've found is that they just aren't innovative enough for me just yet. Ideally, if such a device were to organize my life, there would have to be some considerations in the design - it really should be a portable computer without the limitations. It needs to be small, sleek and feature packed. Wireless Internet, email, note taking, camera, mp3s, VoIP and decent storage along with GPS capability and at least 12 hours of power with continuous use. It should have an OS designed specifically for the device and not a neutered version of a PC system. It should have intelligent voice recognition integrated into everything as well, because let's face it, typing with a stylus is only slightly better than text messaging on a cell phone. I think that these devices need to be more intuitive. I should only have to tell it "Important meeting at FCVB at 3PM on Thursday" and it would add a reminder on my calendar for October 5th at 3PM, mark me down as busy for an hour and alert me beforehand to ensure I leave early enough to go the long way to the destination, since it keeps updated with traffic reports and weather conditions and there was a pileup on the freeway. With that in mind, my wife could sit down at the home PC and send me a reminder as well. Towards the end of the meeting, the PDA vibrates because it set itself to silent during the meeting. When I look at it, there is a reminder of the task an hour before its due because the PDA knows what time I normally get off work.

It should support profiles and have some method of user recognition so that when I'm driving and hand it over to my wife in the passenger seat, it saves the GPS map I was setting up locations on switches from the techno-riche GUI I prefer to a bubbly pink Hello Kitty theme. When she's done checking her email and hands it over, it switches right back to where I left off.

The majority of what I've seen so far in the PDA market leads me to believe that you can't have an all-in-one package, sacrificing design for features, vice versa, or neither but with some irritating flaw and still not work exactly how you think it should; regardless of the hefty price tag.

Maybe its just wishful thinking, but until then, I'll stick to post-its.