What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Wikis and Palm Handhelds
Another factor in my organizing style is that I see connections everywhere. I have notes about someone that lists the phone number or address, which connects in my mind to my address book/PIM/Palm. That’s why I was very excited to find wikis. My preferred wiki, only because it acts mostly the same on Palm or on desktop, is Note Studio. There are things it doesn’t do that I’d love to have it do. There are things it does that I’d rather it didn’t do. But all in all it does onething quite well - behaves the same on desktop and on Palm.

Before I bought my Palm T|E, I had an older Palm IIIC. It was fine, but I had to turn it back in when I switched assignments at work. The new office didn’t allow any Palms of any kind in the office area. When I switched, I lost my then favorite app - MegaWiki. That app was a neat gadget! I could link things all over my Palm. I could link to or from appointments (or create one if none existed), addresses, memos and todos. BUT… (there’s that big but again) it only worked on the Palm, there was no desktop equivalent. I didn’t realize how important that was until I used Note Studio. I tried several other MegaWiki-like apps - Acrowiki, PSLink, Mobile Note (the freeware ver 0.6), etc. - but none of them really fit the bill. Then I tried Note Studio and found out that the plus - desktop behaved the same as the Palm app - far outweighed the shortcomings.

What is the difference between vertically and horizontally organized people? (see John Perry’s article)

Well, I don’t know about others, but I struggle to use the same vertically-oriented tools as others. While the vertically organized people like file and hanging folders and those racks that hold folders upright on the desk or table, I am just as comfortable with a stack of folders or papers on my desk. It’s not that I can find things faster that way than if they are “stacked” vertically. It’s just that that is my natural way of doing things. Trying to remember to put things in vertical folders (hanging, desktop or otherwise) feels like trying to write with my left hand (I’m right-handed).I have to think about all of it very carefully.