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I just don't sem to be able to find something that works for me. I tried a paper planner, palm, cell phone and I just don't like carrying around alot of stuff. Anyone just use a Hipster or note cards? Does it work?
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Re: Organized
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 10:42 AMProbably the best thing I have ever used is a plain ol' notebook and I put everything in there. I tried a pocket PC (what a joke!) and religiously synchronize it with my desktop every day.
What I find to be the greatest problem is NOT the organization - I am excellent at that - it's the upkeep. I find it very difficult to be that disciplined when so many demands are made at such a lightning pace. Thank God for the dry cleaners or I would truly be walking around naked, and believe me, that's something nobody wants! ;) -
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Re: Organized
Tue, August 16, 2005 - 12:53 AMI second the notebook thing. I still carry around my old Palm Vx (in one of those dual-purpose PDA holder/wallet cases) but mostly just use it for tip calculations these days. I find I get things jotted down far better, and quicker, the old fashioned way.
I think part of my problem with PDAs and the like has always been being consistent about syncing them, as well as really committing to a given device / software / platform / etc. Often they've kinda-sorta done the things I'd like them to, but not completely there, so I found it difficult to stick with it. Too many, "If only it had..." sort of thoughts.
Plus, I can put a little spiral bound notebook in my back pocket and not worry about sitting on it. -
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Re: Organized
Tue, August 16, 2005 - 7:05 AMOne area where technology is lacking is really good visual recognition of text.
What I would like, is to carry a good old fashioned paper and pen notebook, and then, if and when I wanted to get the information into my computer, to point the camera in my mobile phone at it and have the computer sort the whole thing out ie. recognise chunks of text, diagrams, lists etc. and have them all turned into the appropriate form.
And I don't want a *scanner* or some thing where I have to do some awkward aligning of the page. I want recognition like my own eyesight, that can cope at different orientations, lighting levels, with shadows on the paper, smudges, bad-handwriting etc. -
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Re: Organized
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 2:38 AMI also love paper. But also miss any way to "sync" it. Maybe there's a kludge here though...
Flickr does something very cool - you can mark a section of an image and comment that section, e.g. put a box round one person in a photo and add their name. Could this be a usable solution to "syncing" paper?
i.e.
1. Scan/take photo of notes.
2. Submit to Flickr.
3. "Mark-up", putting textual summaries of different sections of the image.
I haven't signed up to Flickr yet. I'm trying to now, but my connection and/or Flickr is being crap. However, things that could make this *useful* as opposed to just an experiment:
1. Integration of textual comments with other systems, e.g. a la tags.
2. Ability to request *just* marked section of image as its own image.
Mabye Flickr does some of this already, not sure. But the end result would be the ability to take some words, and grab parts of your notes - scrawls/diagrams/etc - that relate to it. You still have to scan/submit, but hey. That's the compromise :)
Also, is there any "open source" version of Flickr that you can download/install/play around with at all? Might be useful...
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