Organize your Calendar

Since the iPhone is basically a Mac computer in your pocket, a lot of the Life Hacks and GTD processes that us geeks have come to know and love can apply to the iPhone as well. To make sure that this does indeed occur, one should ensure that either their iCal or (heaven forbid) Outlook calendar conforms to the best practices possible.
My practice for calendars is to use different calendars to conform to contexts for activities. I do this because, I like to minimize the notion that events are referring to atomic "things", and more that they can reflect "things happening." For instance, I might be in a meeting @work, but @home, the cleaning lady is over.

Here is the recipe I'd use:

Calendars

• @home - events at home, including visitors, etc.
• @work - events at work, ie meetings, phone calls
• @appointment - I use this to refer to "extra curricular" appointments, like haircuts, etc.
• @bills - consolidates bill due dates on one calendar, which is handy
• @mobile - specific appointments relevant only to the context of being with the phone. This can be things like "call mom"

This way I have a fine grained calendar that can be made more simplistic depending on context. And if it exists in iCal, it'll exist in the iPhone.

Tag Your Torrents with Lostify

Say you are like some people I know and have a few gigabytes of your favorite television shows download. Say you did it legally using Democracy, or maybe not so legally. At any rate, the iPhone, like the iPod before it responds to a lot of meta-data fields that are not easy to edit within iTunes. These fields are used by Apple in the iTunes Store.

Now, with Lostify, you can tag up all your video content, and have it format cleanly within the organizational constructs of the iPhone, iTunes and AppleTV (the entire Apple media ecosystem). Lostify was named after the abundance of Lost torrents, but it works for all TV shows and media.