Too many tools/Too much information

Posted by Ken
Oct 11, 2010 at 12:47 AM

I have not posted in some time, and I’ll try and keep this brief, otherwise I believe that you will start charging me for therapy. As time has passed, my use of Ecco and my Sony Clie have now been almost fully replaced for any routine use, although I still think Ecco was among the best pieces of software ever written. I briefly weaned off of the Clie to an iPod Touch during 2009, and now I’ve now had a Droid phone for the past four months. For better or for worse, it is now my PDA. While I use Diigo as my mobile bookmark service, Google as my calendar, and Toodledo as a task list, I am still spinning around with respect to managing small bits of information that do not relate well to anything else. I have been trying to catch up on paper filing, and find way too many scraps of paper with small bits of information. What I am hoping to incorporate is an online service with an Android app that will allow me to easily enter small bits of information for recall later. The program should sync between my Droid and the web so I can easily access my data from a PC. I would like a friendly, but comprehensive search feature (think G-Mail’s search, but with the ability to do partial word searches) as I am not a big fan of tags, and the ability to easily back up my data off of the web in a common format. My first thoughts were Evernote or Google docs, but I am still too swamped in my paper filing to research this right now. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Over the years I have looked at far too many programs (and registered for far too many online services) that come close, but I need to find something that is stable and easily works. Time for research is now at a premium, so I am not able to make a “quest” for the “perfect” program.

—Ken