Saving a Task offline on Blackberry

Sometimes I’d like to able to save a task to Mentat when I am not connected to the internet with my Blackberry. (Like when I am on an airplane)
Is there a way to save a task without connecting?

Not yet. We’re working on offline use under the iPhone and on the Mac first (easier because we can use sqlite for the storage). Once that’s done we’ll roll out a j2me implementation for the BlackBerry. It’s probably at least a month or two out right now.
In the short term, I write down notes as regular BlackBerry notes if I don’t have a connection and paste them in later. A wretched solution.

At least I know there is hope. I can make your solution slightly easier by voicing my note to memo pad using Vlingo. If I could get Vlingo to send a task to Mentat that would be even better.

We’ve talked about adding the ability to create new tasks from notes in the same way that we do with email and SMS messages. Would that be an acceptable interim solution?
Obviously it’s only good for capture, you still won’t be able to access your tasks offline.

I think that would be a good step in the right direction.

hmslloyd, i’m not as familiar with Vlingo as with services like Jott (I’m looking into it right after posting this), but would Mentat’s Jott awareness help you with your Vlingo-to-Mentat proposal?
I keep a “jott” project that catches anything I dictate to Jott while mobile, and get caught up when I have a moment in front of a computer to sort the tasks into appropriate projects, etc.
Again, not sure what Vlingo does but this sounded similar.
Matt

Vlingo is a beta program that lets you voice a message to a task or note. As for Jott it is my favorite for voicing to mentat. However, if I am on a plane I can’t connect to that either. Somehow, I need to be able to get the note to mentat-hopefully without retyping it.