Migrating to new MB Air with a clean start?  Limited space...

I'm coming from a 15" MB Pro with a 320GB drive going to a 256GB MBA 13". Obviously a full migration is too large. I started out thinking that I would simply install all of the apps from scratch (purging in the process)...so I started this...reinstalling, getting my Dropbox, Evernote, etc. running. The cloud based apps like that are no problem - as is email. Where I'm struggling is on native apps (things like Bento, Concentrate, etc) whose data location isn't crystal clear to me. What folders do I need to bring over to get everything transferred? Is this something I should do through Migration Assistant, or just pull them on my NAS and copy them back over to the MBA?
Thanks

One problem with reinstalling your apps usually is, you miss a lot of the simple ones that you downloaded, or have lost the discs for.
Your best bet might have been to use +Setup Assistant+ when your new Mac first started up, but omit some things. You can still do that, if you wish, by starting over. See [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Snow Leopard > Installation and Setup+ forum), especially the green box there. Let it transfer your apps and all user home folders, but de-select one or more large sub-folders, such as Pictures, Music, Movies, or wherever your big data folders are.
You can then delete some apps and data you don't want, and selectively copy other data that you do want.
Neither +Setup Assistant+ nor +Migration Assistant+ allow you to "pick and choose" individual apps, and they have the same limits on what you can omit. And they don't automatically move the data associated with your apps.

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