Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Organization

I need to try to figure out a strategy for organizing information. I have always believed that the best way to organize is to have everything in one place. Based on the given technology, though, this does not seem possible.

But if we were to live in an ideal world:
  • I would need a handheld organizer which can access all my information.
  • Information would include blogs, contact lists, to do lists, and any other references. Potentially mail, too.
  • This handheld organizer should work with my mobile phone to be able to make phone calls from a contact list. In an ideal world, it would track phone calls as part of the contact information.
  • Since we are also talking about ideal, the handheld organizer would also have a GPS device to be able to provide navigational information. The GPS device would also be able to log my whereabouts, so that at any point in time, I can refer back to where I was on a given day.
  • This device would be able to connect to the Internet, view video files, etc. Ideally, be able to connect to http://my.orb.com for viewing media from my server.
  • The device should have a large hard-drive capability, so that I can store media on it directly. In addition, it should be able to handle SD/SD-IO cards.
  • And finally, the device should be a camera and videocamera, with a minimum 3 megapixel resolution for the camera and VGA quality video at 30 fps.
The blog should have the following capabilities:
  • Private and public access.
  • Multiple categorization capability. That is, not only be able to categorize a blog entry but associate it to multiple categories.
  • Search capabilities.
  • Photo/photo album, even video
  • Access via e-mail which would be one way to access from the handheld device
Given that we are not in the ideal world yet... What to do...

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