Arrived back home in Cambridge, which gives me an opportunity to return the hated iPaq PocketPC to the much-loved Andrew (thanks!). A printed-out list of addresses from Outlook would be far preferable to a device with only a few days of battery life (3 minutes per day of usage) and no battery level indicator. My Handspring Treo with its broken door hinge was sitting on my desk. It had been there unattended for one month. The LCD screen was painted with an event reminder. I touched “OK” and a series of other events came up. The Treo had held its power for more than one month!
[One of my readers knows some of the folks at Handspring who are apparently taking pity on me and probably sending out a replacement Treo so I may not have to resort to pen and paper for too long.]
Right after I read your last post about the Pocket PC, and after commenting how much I liked my Treo 300, my Treo’s door broke. I superglued it back together, and it has held up since. It probably isn’t as strong as it was, but it might last until the Treo 600 is available this fall 🙂
Ole
I had an idea a while back for a web service to create print-on-demand address booklets from uploaded contact lists (vcard?).
Paper is often the best technology. It would be great if you could find a way to keep the info sync’ed so you could order new booklets quarterly. Imagine different styles (Moleskine?)
Just a thought.
I tried many handhelds… 2 different Palms and one PocketPC (Dell Axim). And the winner is…
The Franklin Planner!
I’m tired of dealing with sync issues, batteries, worrying about dropping the darn things, etc. And try as I might, I cannot get them to recognize my handwriting reasonably fast. I can’t write notes on them.
The only information I keep online is my address book. For which I use Yahoo’s web based PIM. So if I cannot find something in my planner, I can find it in a jiffy using any web browser I can find handy.
PS: I work in IT. I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in CS. But at times I wish I had _fewer_ computers. The return to the Franklin Planner was in part because way too much of my life was run by computers.
I just want to say… that I work at MS, near the PocketPC organization… and I’m seriously thinking about getting one of the new Treos when they come out.