07-08-2007, 01:51 PM | #1 |
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Advice on best handheld device for organizing purpose
During the recent years, I developed a self-organizing system that I like very much (and it evolves continually). However, since the system is based on little rectangular paper cards (see below, where also more reasons for this search are described), I decided to look for a handheld electronic device that I could use for this need.
As I found this a rather difficult task, I would like to ask you for advice on such possible device. First, I would perhaps describe what I exactly want. The Organizing system The system is not actually much complex. Everything I want to remember (tasks, results of some research and other data, that I would like to store because I know that in the (near or distanced, it depends) future it will be of some use to me) I write on the little rectangular cards and then put it:
The reasons why I decided to look for a handheld device to implement this system on are:
The parameters of the device The device should more or less enable me to implement on it the organizing system described above, with a proper program of course. Furthemore, since the system is constantly evolving (as mentioned above), greater flexibility would be a plus. It definitely shouldn't be a mobile phone (or smartphone), because I wouldn't probably get it here in the Czech Republic and even if I would, I would probably have to pay a hefty monthly fee for something I am completely not in need of (I currently don't even own a mobile phone). It also does not have to be strong in other fields like spreadsheet editing, video viewing, etc. - I will use it most of the time for the organizing purpose. For the input I would strongly prefer a small physical keyboard rather then a pen and a virtual keyboard. That is because the physical keyboard seems as faster for the input to me, but I haven't really touched a device with virtual keyboard, so feel free to mention if you find that virtual keyboard can be as good for input as the physical one if a person gets used to it. However, having done some research on this, I do not hold the physical keyboard as a required aspect of the device because devices that are not smartphones, have a physical keyboard and are currently supported by their manufacturers are quite rare (or at least I think that based on the research; I would be very happy to realize this isn't the case). On the other side, if the device has a virtual keyboard, there should exist a program on it that allows user to quickly scribble something on it and then review the note later(that I would use in situations such as the night one described above). The software I would of course be also very grateful for any suggestions on the software for implementing my organizing system. Since I am really dependent on the system, I am willing to pay a serious sum for a program that would allow me to implement the system fully and would be possibly even more flexible. So far for a Pocket PC I have found three possible candidates (click on the name for the homepage of the given product): xReminder Pro, Agenda Fusion 8 for Pocket PC and My Life Organized for Pocket PC. Again, I would be grateful for more suggestions. So, that is it. I am sorry if I bored you to death (which probably isn't the case if you have read the post until this place), but I wanted to describe what I am asking advice on in the best possible manner, which involves going into detail. |
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