{"id":797,"date":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:00:00","slug":"i-swore-i-wouldnt-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/i-swore-i-wouldnt-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I swore I wouldn’t do this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been the owner of a few personal organisers over the years, particularly a Hewlett Packard 200LX<\/a> and a Psion Series 5MX<\/a> that lasted for several years each. Although I preferred the HP as a pure organiser, the Psion carried the distinct advantage that I could play Ping Pong for the ZX Spectrum on it, thanks to a very impressive emulator. I’m still getting over how strange and cool that was. I remember quite clearly all those Java development plans I had for the Psion, too 😉<\/p>\n

Next I moved on to a combination of a laptop (not very handy for my pocket, but fully-featured) and my mobile phone (although I bought the data cable, I never really persevered with the organiser functionality).<\/p>\n

However, between the various PCs, the PDAs, the mobile phones and so on, I became a bit sick of messing around with data transfer and conversion when all I’m really looking for is a diary, address book and notebook. Recently I decided that enough was enough and that I would buy myself a Filofax and go back to pen and paper. More fool me. The problem with pen and paper is that there are no backups so, *if* you’re stupid enough to lose the bag containing it, you’re in trouble.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided I might as well bite the bullet and try going back to a PDA that interfaces with Windows nicely (preferable wireless, too, so I don’t have to mess around with cables and docking stations), fits in a (big) pocket and gives me basic organiser functionality. I don’t expect to be watching live football (soccer) matches on it. I have my own ideas but I’d really appreciate some opinions (good or bad) on what others use themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been the owner of a few personal organisers over the years, particularly a Hewlett Packard 200LX and a Psion Series 5MX that lasted for several years each. Although I preferred the HP as a pure organiser, the Psion carried the distinct advantage that I could play Ping Pong for the ZX Spectrum on it,… Continue reading I swore I wouldn’t do this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1531,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/oow-2009-bloggers-meetup\/","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":0},"title":"OOW 2009 – Blogger’s Meetup","date":"October 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"So after a day's interesting presentations, it was time for the Cuddly Toy Meetup, but I can't really tell you how I went because I went to the Blogger Meetup, started having a good time and forgot my supervision responsibilities. 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