Re: The most awesome personal organiser ever
From: "Scott Junner" <scott.junner@gmail.com>
I'm looking for suggestions, if you have them.
I want a personal organiser that is organised. Go figure.
Let me try;-) Maybe you write it. I do not have the time - partially thanks to the lack of the personal organizer;-) BTW: I spend a morning walking (without thinking of documenting, photographing etc.) and writing mail on paper. It really feels healthier than all of the electronic gadgets which are stealing hours craving for attention. I am more and more in favour of "single purpose machines." If I want a phone I use a phone. If I want to read I read a book. If I want to work or doing more complicated things I use a computer. The best organizer seems to be notebook. A6 so it fits in my trousers. What's missing is a "grep" and a "sort". And a one click action on my mailreader, browser etc. to "send" it to the notebook. So maybe you can build this one for me;-) But in absence of it, what about a web app containing this? If you put it in the cloud you have it everywhere as long as you have a computer. So, what's needed? 1. A database 2. An easy way to insert events 3. A URL for every reference 4. A tagging system 5. A search engine 6. A slick presentation A lot of bits and pieces exists. Maybe it just needs some assembly work to get it done. Or it already exists? BTW: This all screams for a standardized object-oriented base system and GUI so you can add an "organizer dialogue", "open" and 'search" action to every object you want to reference.. I am definitely not up to scratch in all areas so I wonder what people can contribute in a "brain storming" session. Regards Peter
Yeah. I started writing it because I realise I could wait for ever for someone else to build me the thing I want and make it work the way I want it to work. So I'm looking at python + kivy and a database to build a mobile/desktop application and then a browser interface. If anyone has a thing they've always wanted to be able to do in a personal organiser let me know. Could be a while in production of course because I find it so hard to organise stuff. And I'm not exactly good at this sort of thing. But what the heck, give it crack and see what, if anything, flies. Scott On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Peter Ross <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:
From: "Scott Junner" <scott.junner@gmail.com>
I'm looking for suggestions, if you have them.
I want a personal organiser that is organised. Go figure.
Let me try;-) Maybe you write it. I do not have the time - partially thanks to the lack of the personal organizer;-)
BTW: I spend a morning walking (without thinking of documenting, photographing etc.) and writing mail on paper. It really feels healthier than all of the electronic gadgets which are stealing hours craving for attention.
I am more and more in favour of "single purpose machines." If I want a phone I use a phone. If I want to read I read a book.
If I want to work or doing more complicated things I use a computer.
The best organizer seems to be notebook. A6 so it fits in my trousers. What's missing is a "grep" and a "sort". And a one click action on my mailreader, browser etc. to "send" it to the notebook.
So maybe you can build this one for me;-)
But in absence of it, what about a web app containing this?
If you put it in the cloud you have it everywhere as long as you have a computer.
So, what's needed?
1. A database 2. An easy way to insert events 3. A URL for every reference 4. A tagging system 5. A search engine 6. A slick presentation
A lot of bits and pieces exists. Maybe it just needs some assembly work to get it done. Or it already exists?
BTW: This all screams for a standardized object-oriented base system and GUI so you can add an "organizer dialogue", "open" and 'search" action to every object you want to reference..
I am definitely not up to scratch in all areas so I wonder what people can contribute in a "brain storming" session.
Regards Peter
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On 09.12.14 17:49, Scott Junner wrote:
Yeah. I started writing it because I realise I could wait for ever for someone else to build me the thing I want and make it work the way I want it to work.
It's lotsa fun to write the "perfect app" from scratch. It's sure to have a market of at least one - maybe more. A diversity of needs and skillsets ensures a multiplicity of awesome organisers, though. For some it might be a (dead tree) notebook or Post-It notes - the batteries never go flat, and the display works wherever your eyes do. They can import anything a pencil can handle. For me, any *nix variant is my awesome organiser, with vim as the core app. And since cal doesn't do look-ahead, I have a script which warns me repeatedly in the fortnight up to anniversaries. For non-calendar stuff, a variety of subject files are individually opened with vim, on a 2 or 3 letter alias, so I don't have to remember a pathname. What commercial product would "organise" my register of Serrated Tussock (an atrocious agricultural pest) infestations on our 3 sq. km farm - date & how many plants found on each inspection of each site over the last half decade? (Trends are important - for several years, numbers were increasing.) My contacts database is a text file, with one line of awk aliased to the command 't' for searching. It has followed me through 18 years at one company, 12 at another, and 6 years since. Different folding strategies on the various files present an initially compressed view when editing, and a simple heading/keyword strategy streamlines searching. So, in short: Why learn the confining rat-run of some "app", when linux allows us to do anything we want, using the skills we already have? (And allows us to avoid GUIs to boot.) Erik -- When you find that you like Ubuntu you can then install it on your HD. You can keep your XP system if you want to. This is called Duel booting. - Douglas E Knapp, on ubuntu-users.
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