Evernote

Evernote is one of a long line of notetaking applications, from Microsoft OneNote (which is supposedly pretty good) to Zoho. In my search for a notetaking application to supplement my brain (which has horrible short term memory), I settled on Evernote as the most full featured of the bunch:

• Has a desktop AND web AND iPhone client
• For notebooks that are synced to Evernote's servers, free OCR
• The ability to have synced notebooks (to take advantage of web/iPhone clients and free OCR), or desktop only notebooks (for sensitive info)
• The ability to add pics, pdf, word, excel, numbers, pages, webpages, or free text to a note
• quick searchability

The only thing remaining for me is to put my local Evernote notebooks into my truecrypt partition, then I'd be all set

Remember The Milk

I was a dedicated omnifocus user, but I just switched to Remember The Milk. If it was just my notebook or a desktop, omnifocus is the top GTD app hands down. However the omnifocus iPhone app is just tooo..... clunky. I have all the usual complaints about it, it loads slow, too much navigation to do simple things, so on and so forth. To me it seems like their developers are too used to the high horsepower of modern macs, and are having a hard time writing an app for a processor/ram/hd constrained product like the iPhone.

Remember The Milk on the other hand, is a pure webapp for macs, with a syncable iPhone app. The webapp is slightly slower than omnifocus for mac, which is understandable. However, their webapp has gmail like keyboard shortcuts, which is nice. I do miss omnifocus's ability to add a new task from anywhere. Remember The Milk also integrates well with gmail, I subscribed to my task list as a calendar in iCal, and has nifty settings like "postpone", and understands natural language as you input data. Unfortunately for omnifocus, the faster Remember The Milk iPhone app made me a switcher. 

Stanza for the iPhone

I recently downloaded both the OSX and iPhone version of Stanza, with the intention of turning my iPhone into a good pdf reader. The verdict? Stanza on the iPhone is awesome for reading newspapers, books and magazines. Stanza is bad for reading tech documentation, especially those with diagrams and pics. I had hoped that Stanza might be good for tech docs, but alas my hopes were dashed. I still use it on an almost daily basis though, since there's a lot of classic books that are now in the public domain.

I have iPhone thumb

I have iPhone thumb, which is alternately known as blackberry thumb or nintendonitis. Trying to switch to my other fingers to give my thumbs some rest. Owie.

Omnifocus for the iPhone

So I bought an iPhone 3G. I figured iPhones are no longer trendy since everyone and their mother has one, and Apple probably has most of the bugs worked out, so I might as well get one. So far I have been impressed. I ended up purchasing Omnifocus for the iPhone, as I really liked Omnifocus for the desktop. However, the Omni Group decided that there would be no recurring tasks on the iPhone version of Omnifocus. What the bloody hell. That's the dumbest thing I've seen this week, and it cost me $20 from the app store.