__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:00 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Chandler - The Next Generation PIM
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Chandler is a ?personal information manager that adapts to your
>> | changing needs.? It is developed by the Open Source Application
>> | Foundation (OSAF). The Chandler vision is to have a next-generation
>> | Personal Information Manager (PIM), integrating calendar, email,
>> | contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging
>> | functions. The current version is 0.6 with a goal of 1.0.
>> `----
>>
>>
>
http://verusnova.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/02/chandler-the-next-generation-pim/
>
> The trouble with pims, no I don't mean the drink with lumps of fruit in it,
> gads isn't it horrible drinking in a french cafe and you suddenly find
> yourself choking on a piece of banana or apple. Anyway, the trouble with
> pims is that that they never quite do the job, but once you have started
> using them you can not live without them.
Lockin is another matter. I am still annoyed with Palm's proprietary formats
which had me depend on them since 2002. Only recently I managed to export
everything to KOrganizer. From there, I could export as i/vCal and put it on
a Web-based PHP Calendar. At least I now know that I could live without
Palm's proprietary blobs which interpret the data. Roy Ingles also gave me a
pointer to a pilot-link tool which converts things to plain text...
> I never had a filofax but I now know why people had no choice but to carry
> them around everywhere they went. Your brain does an extraordinary thing
> from the day you start using a pim of any kind, it says to itself 'I now
> have an extended memory so no need to waste internal resources on any of
> this information any more'.
Yes, exactly. It has pros and cons. Nothing beats human conciousness. I'm
still suffering from 'PIM lag'... I haven't gone through some of yesterday's
tasks, which means that I might later realise that I missed an appointment
that triggered no alarm. PIM can lead to procrastination as much as it can
combat it.
> It watches too, any entry made in a pim is instantly wiped from the
> internal memory.
>
> So a great deal of my life is on my PDA, I sync it at home and at work,
> back it up at both ends too, because effectively that data only exists on
> the device.
Well, archives are another matter. They are probably useless, but in many
case they remain barely accessible. In the case of Palm, it's a mismash of
binary and ASCII. Not a nice way to have your diary saved... same with
Microsoft's mail formats... and addresses, documents, etc.
> What is this great data? Well mums birthday obviously, relatives birthdays
> of cause. But the primary information is 'Notes', equivelant to the bits of
> paper scattered around you now that have a number or a five word scribble
> written on them, that two word note written on the corner of a document
> that has no relation to it just sticking out from the back of your
> keyboard, pieces of paper which are crucial to your work.
>
> It is those pieces of paper that pims just don't properly cope with. This
> information is not necessarily specific to a date or project, so you can't
> get them past the pim's bouncer, the big bloke stood at the door of the
> Tasks or TODO lists, so you lie to him and pretend there is a date
> associated, but then the note is lost because this snippet of information
> was never intended for a specific date, it shouldn't have a label on it at
> all.
I still need to pull out my PIM when people ask for my telephone numbers.
Basically, anything you can offload and put on some peripheral tool (book,
Wikipedia, PIM) needn't stay in your head. It can be pulled/extracted
quickly enough and never be forgotten/eroded. I think that Einstein once
suggested/advocated some philosophy along these lines...
> So my pim really is the notes application on my PDA. Notepad is the only
> pim that really works.
I used to store things as memos and todo items, but calendars have a good
dimension of time (with alarms), so when the load increases, this seems like
a good direction to go in. I bet that I'm not alone in this. Others could
probably attest to the same experience.
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