noobcoder

A while back I read about a geek hacking her asus eee pc so she could install a couple of USB items inside the shell of the machine. It just hit me how nice it would be if there was a standard internal USB form factor for laptops. Some way to install one or two very small appliances be it memory Bluetooth, hsdpa or whatever. Maybe combine it with an antenna built into the standard so the manufacturers of little “extras” wont have to worry about that part. All they have to do is fit into this USB slot. This could open up the laptop to customizations at a very affordable level.

By using USB it would just be a question of manufacturers adapting their current designs to fit inside the laptop. An example could be the 3G USB modems everybody and his brother seems to be using here in Denmark. How nice would that be to have invisible inside your eee or dell or whatever. So here goes ASUS please use this idea and you’ll get me to buy a eee. You could even build it into your motherboards so we wouldn’t have to have all kinds of stupid stuff sticking out of our PCs.

Well back to daydreaming

Hi again

Ive been thinking these last couple of weeks. As you might know I picked up that book “Keeping Found Things Found”, so I’m trying to figure out how I can make my daily PIM management easier. I work in IT, but when I look at my daily routines, I’m very much living in the 20th century. I honestly prefer doing things by hand. Note taking and idea cultivation is on paper. Paper lets my ideas flow easier. I read my books preferably from treeware because that’s easier to log around with me. The big problem from this paper based note taking is that they have a tendency to disappear in my otherwise digital world. Ive come to think that I have to find some tool that help me get the best of both worlds. Maybe it could also help me get some work done during my about 3 hours a day spent commuting to and from work.

• Short distance from thought to note/idea
• ability to do a QAD sketch if necessary
• Has to fit into my other digital tools
• Must have searchability built in ( I need to be able to get back to it later/much later
• Portability
• Preferably connected to the net/web

So it looks like Im in the market for a tablet PC of some kind. It will allow me to do all of the above. But of course its not enough to just get the PC, I need to learn to use it and get it to fit into my day and my routines.

If anyones got an idea for a good tablet please leave me a note.