Since my wife managed to destroy yer Centro by dropping it in a local
lake, I'm trying to figure out what to set up as an organizer
replacement for her. Don't want another smartphone, as those are simply
*WAY* too expensive, especially when dealing with the
lobotomized/crippled units for VerizonWorthless.
I would simply have re-loaded her Palm Zire71, but that managed to get
lost someplace between the in-laws house and ours once we moved back to
our house, so I'd probably have to give her my old Sony Clie as a
substitute. So that would leave me with the need to replace it for my
*own* needs.
I've been considering going back to paper (actually, a hybrid
paper/computer solution), and have a "size 3" DayRunner (3.75" x 6.5")
which I had considered as a substitute for my PDA. My thought was that
I could use some Linux application such as Korganizer to enter
addresses, notes and calendar entries into, then print those out to the
"dayrunner classic" format to put into the small binder. The problem
is, I haven't found any software that knows how to handle these formats.
I'm figuring I should be able to print 2 organizer pages per 8.5x11
sheet of paper (4 if I double-sided it). But that would require the
application to know it was printing to that layout and format accordingly.
After figuring that bit out, I also have to figure out what to do for a
portable secured password database. Obviously I don't want to print
them out on paper and carry that around with me. But I figure I am most
likely going to be at or near a computer any time I need one of my
passwords, so why not keep them on a locked database on a USB stick.
The problem then becomes what software can be carried on that USB stick,
which has versions for Linux, Mac & Windows (portable versions so I
don't have to install the software on whatever machine I have to run it
on). Not sure if such a solution exists, though.
I suppose the *really* clever solution would be a USB-based PDA that
would handle all 5 sub-apps (address book, calendar, notepad, to-do list
& password safe) in one standardized portable app-per-platform. Java
could *almost* do it, except we know how reliably cross-platform Java is
in practice.
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