Comments on: Superior, simplified PDA http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3499 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3499/comment-page-1#comment-8384 Reader's Write Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:06:06 +0000 #comment-8384 I used to have a pocket-notebook-wielding colleague who would sneer at electronic organizers and challenge the users to see who could look up a phone number quicker. Like you, he misses the whole point. No doubt, paper is quicker and cheaper. But that's not why you would go electronic. 1. What do you do when the paper wears out, gets all dog-eared and torn, or fills up with edits? Or when the 1-year calendar in the notebook runs out? Are you going to re-copy all that information by hand? 2. Do you have your paper with you everywhere, especially when you travel? I can cary a small organizer or a USB keychain in my pocket, and I can put copies of my organizer data on the internet, accessible from anywhere,. 3. What happens when you lose it or drop it in a puddle? Information gone forever, and a security risk as well if you lose it. I can password-protect my organizer, and I have backup copies of the database on my PC. I used to have a pocket-notebook-wielding colleague who would sneer at electronic organizers and challenge the users to see who could look up a phone number quicker. Like you, he misses the whole point.

No doubt, paper is quicker and cheaper. But that’s not why you would go electronic.

1. What do you do when the paper wears out, gets all dog-eared and torn, or fills up with edits? Or when the 1-year calendar in the notebook runs out? Are you going to re-copy all that information by hand?

2. Do you have your paper with you everywhere, especially when you travel? I can cary a small organizer or a USB keychain in my pocket, and I can put copies of my organizer data on the internet, accessible from anywhere,.

3. What happens when you lose it or drop it in a puddle? Information gone forever, and a security risk as well if you lose it. I can password-protect my organizer, and I have backup copies of the database on my PC.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3499/comment-page-1#comment-8380 Reader's Write Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:25:42 +0000 #comment-8380 For that matter you can train yourself to memorise data so you don't forget it. That way there's no cards to loose or difficult handwriting to process. What's the point of a card system? It's not convenient or pratical at all! How can lugging around hundreds of cards "scale well"? What if you forget the cards? What if you don't want to carry them? Might as well say that you'll only go to locations with a PC you can borrow. Now THAT scales well. But it limits your access, just like the cards are annoying to carry around. So what is it that is superior or simplified in this concept? Why use cards to write on instead of, say, your hand? This is a rather contrived and nonsensical call to using low-tech means. For that matter you can train yourself to memorise data so you don’t forget it.
That way there’s no cards to loose or difficult handwriting to process.

What’s the point of a card system? It’s not convenient or pratical at all!
How can lugging around hundreds of cards “scale well”?
What if you forget the cards?
What if you don’t want to carry them?

Might as well say that you’ll only go to locations with a PC you can borrow.
Now THAT scales well.
But it limits your access, just like the cards are annoying to carry around.

So what is it that is superior or simplified in this concept?
Why use cards to write on instead of, say, your hand?
This is a rather contrived and nonsensical call to using low-tech means.

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