{"items": [{"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100936518160252317727", "anchor": "gp-1327941888609", "service": "gp", "text": "What software do you use to take notes? I've tried both AK Notepad and Google Docs (both on Android), and they both have strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes I find that just emailing myself is the most useful way to do it.", "timestamp": 1327941888}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1327942076150", "service": "gp", "text": "I use Catch; it was in the most downloaded section of the free apps. I have a homescreen widget for quick entry, and then it shows up in their webapp on my laptop too. I just use it for text and delete things when I'm done with them. It's a bit like a todo list for when I'm at my computer.", "timestamp": 1327942076}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1327944419607", "service": "gp", "text": "I seem to have trouble hitting critical mass whenever I try to implement a to-do or note list. That is, I'll write a few things down at first, but won't have enough things to write down to remember to check it frequently enough to make it useful, so I'll quickly abandon it. This has happened to me probably a dozen times with various devices, including my relatively new iPhone. It seems like an odd thing to fail at, but I think that's what I'm doing.", "timestamp": 1327944419}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1327944444336", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n That's happened to me in the past. What was critical with this is that I always had the phone with me, so I found myself putting things into it at least daily.", "timestamp": 1327944444}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176667842437609", "anchor": "fb-176667842437609", "service": "fb", "text": "Palm does the notes thing internal to its own program, along with contacts, calendar, and to do. Porting this out to the droid I've got to buy soon is going to be a major issue. I've got family history and grocery list in my notes. BTW, grocery list in your phone is great. Think of something you need? Whip out the phone and list it - now. Fabulous!", "timestamp": "1327944529"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176668689104191", "anchor": "fb-176668689104191", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: because I live with housemates and anyone might go shopping I do a grocery list add in two phases: (1) put it in my phone (2) when I get home, see it on the todo list and put it on the grocery list.", "timestamp": "1327944624"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176671225770604", "anchor": "fb-176671225770604", "service": "fb", "text": "But the important thing is that you jotted it down on something that's more persistent than a torn scrap of paper. Again, the Palm has a desktop app that synchronizes with the phone for back up and easy data entry. A friend of mine calls her phone her \"life\". So how do you back up your life? Is there a similar desktop app sync'ing with your phone?", "timestamp": "1327944940"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176673912437002", "anchor": "fb-176673912437002", "service": "fb", "text": "Various things on my phone synchronize in various ways: notes are in Catch and so are stored on their servers. Photos are immediately uploaded to G+ (but not automatically shared). Music, mostly Free Raisins live recordings, is always copied over from my laptop and so is backed up. Call history and texts are stored on Google Voice's servers. GPS locations are stored in Google Latitude;s servers. Email is stored on an imap server (swarpa.net). All of these I can get to without the phone using any computer when that's more convenient.", "timestamp": "1327945284"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176675479103512", "anchor": "fb-176675479103512", "service": "fb", "text": "(and for backing up the cloud, email is automatically copied in full to my laptop every few days)", "timestamp": "1327945471"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1327948526188", "service": "gp", "text": "I've heard good things about Evernote, but haven't really used it yet.", "timestamp": 1327948526}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176703265767400", "anchor": "fb-176703265767400", "service": "fb", "text": "Ouch! With my present Palm, I hook up a cable, press a button and ALL the data in my phone is sunk with my desktop in a minute and a half. Now, that data does not include all the kinds of data you have in your phone. But I think this transition to a new phone is going to be unpleasant for me. Sigh...", "timestamp": "1327948659"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176704502433943", "anchor": "fb-176704502433943", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: Ouch? This all happens wirelessly, automatically, and almost instantly without me thinking about it.", "timestamp": "1327948797"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176731322431261", "anchor": "fb-176731322431261", "service": "fb", "text": "Automatically? Does it not require that you click on multiple individual apps to make all these data streams flow? Or do they automatically sync on a schedule? And given all the security failures recently, I like desktop storage for my data.", "timestamp": "1327952146"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176737312430662", "anchor": "fb-176737312430662", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: I don't have to click on anything; they just sync on their own when things change.
As for using a desktop for privacy concerns, I don't trust the future to keep anything private. http://www.jefftk.com/news/publicy.html", "timestamp": "1327952838"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176748025762924", "anchor": "fb-176748025762924", "service": "fb", "text": "Read all your Publicy stuff. Interesting investigation of the subject BUT lack of privacy is the root of ID theft. Also, when the Constitution was written, Franklin said something like, \"All men have done things privately that would have them hanged many times over.\" And thus privacy was so indelibly embedded within the Constitution.", "timestamp": "1327954063"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176758109095249", "anchor": "fb-176758109095249", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: \"lack of privacy is the root of ID theft\"
Kind of. Lack of secrecy for a small number of pieces of data, yes. Credit card numbers, social security number, email/facebook/google/bank passwords. If you put these on your phone, don't back them up to the cloud. The programs I was talking about that upload their data (gps, photos, notes) wouldn't be very bad if they were accidentally made fully public.
The Franklin quote (\"All men have done things privately that would have them hanged many times over\") indicates too low a barrier for hanging. As things become more public our society will have to respond to being able to see the drunk college photos of job applicants, and I think we'll decide that we don't care. (I'm not sure of this, though, so I think people would be smarter to keep such things offline.)
I'm also not sure what the Constitution has to do with this: I thought we were talking about how concerned to be about potential security breaches when considering storing data in the cloud?", "timestamp": "1327955220"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176780789092981", "anchor": "fb-176780789092981", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: I'm not sure about that \"Franklin\" quote. It's suspiciously similar to \"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him\", disputedly of http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu", "timestamp": "1327957725"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1327961054140", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n Evernote seems aimed at something more complicated than I want: long term storage and lookup. I already have things for that, so I'm happy just to be able to keep really only fifteenish notes at a time, adding and deleting as I work through them.", "timestamp": 1327961054}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176823372422056", "anchor": "fb-176823372422056", "service": "fb", "text": "The mention of the Constitution was simply an example of how deeply held was a belief in the sanctity of privacy in that day. And I cannot find a similar quote for Franklin. It was my recollection.", "timestamp": "1327962003"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176837019087358", "anchor": "fb-176837019087358", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker: I don't know much about how people thought about privacy in the 1700s, and don't think it's really relevant here, but the Constitution isn't really that good evidence for their beliefs on the subject. It just doesn't talk about it much. You can see it some in the Bill of Rights, but it's not clear and the claim that it implicitly contains a \"right to privacy\" is contested and relatively (1928 on) recent.", "timestamp": "1327963478"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=176908135746913", "anchor": "fb-176908135746913", "service": "fb", "text": "When reading your posts on publicy, I got drawn into the topic of privacy, to which a lot of people today pay little attention.
If you started another string on the Constitutional basis or lack thereof for privacy, it would be interesting.", "timestamp": "1327972707"}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=177113899059670", "anchor": "fb-177113899059670", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walter: I use Notespark, which I highly recommend. I used to have a Palm device, and Notespark is a great replacement for the Palm notes function. It also syncs automatically, as Jeff was describing, with your desktop (and any other device that can access it). There is an app for the iPhone which is excellent. I don't know if there is an app for the Android.", "timestamp": "1328011684"}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=177114529059607", "anchor": "fb-177114529059607", "service": "fb", "text": "For jotting down notes on the iPhone, I use the Write Now app. It does not convert to text, but then, I don't want it to. It's just like having a paper notepad. You write with your finger. You can draw pictures or diagrams, and it's very quick. Also, I do use a ToDo list (ToodleDo, if anyone's interested), and one of the items on it is to check Write Now. That way if I scribble a note to myself, I'll remember to look at it and put it on my ToDo list if it needs to go there.", "timestamp": "1328011800"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/176642185773508?comment_id=177284855709241", "anchor": "fb-177284855709241", "service": "fb", "text": "@Richard Thanks for the suggestions. I stuck them in a Palm Note titled Droid. :) I am NOT looking forward to this.", "timestamp": "1328033735"}]}