imageIt’s been a while since I’ve posted what I’ve got on my Treo’s Today screen, so here it is.

I’ve gone with a very basic look here, but one that works sur­pris­ingly well while at the same time pro­vid­ing a slick, mod­ern look. The white text on solid black is eas­ily read­able indoors and out, and the flat look of the title bar and soft­keys is notice­ably less dis­tract­ing in other appli­ca­tions, notably eReader.

I’m only using three Today plu­g­ins. The top one is the Sprint dial lookup plu­gin, but you’ll notice it’s smaller than it should be, and the icons are oddly indented. This is because I’m using the RealVGA hack from WMExperts.com to run my device at 96dpi and thus use the plu­gin from the older Treo 700wx on my 800w. Below that I’ve got the Web Search plu­gin that Palm pro­vides. I pre­fer this to the newer Google Today plu­gin because the Palm ver­sion dou­bles as a web address bar, à la Chrome’s Omni­bar or Fire­fox 3’s Awe­some­bar. Typ­ing a raw URL into Google’s own plu­gin searches for that address rather than going straight to it.

The rest of the Today screen, the vast major­ity of it, is taken up by SBSH Software’s Pock­et­Breeze, using the Mono White theme found on their forums. As you can see, this gives me a clean and unclut­tered view of my daily com­mit­ments (be they appoint­ments, tasks or even spe­cial events like birth­days or anniver­saries) along with today’s weather and a graph­i­cal view of my time. The tabs along the side give me quick access to doc­u­ments, tasks and projects, con­tacts and a more detailed view of the weather. All with­out leav­ing the Today screen, and all eas­ily con­trol­lable with just the d-​pad when I’m on the go.

The only place this solu­tion falls short for me is that Pock­et­Breeze only sup­ports one Today plu­gin per tab, unlike Spb Diary or Ulti­mate­Launch. Still, it and the Start Menu com­bined pro­vide access to vir­tu­ally every­thing I use often on my phone, and keep me firmly in con­trol as I go about my day.