Online shared intelligence

Evernote, with its apparently simple functional set, and the humble “note” as key metaphor, is taking over the domain of more and more applications, and in the process becoming irreplaceable for me. Makes me wander if “note taking” is not a term that has suffered excessive trivialization…

The MiFi is not a revolutionary concept, or a totally new product. But I tell you, it will revolutionize the way people like me work. Constant connectivity in a computer with true computer ergonomics is now a reality

GTD (Short for David Allen’s book title Getting Things Done), is not only a book, it’s also a hugely adopted personal productivity methodology, a cult phenomenon, a tag in del.icio.us with 58,000+ entries, a favorite posting subject for bloggers (how original of me), and the subject of multiple software and online solutions, both open source and proprietary.

But GTD is also a naked emperor of sorts: chronicles of failed adoptions are pretty much as common (or more) as discussions of GTD itself. Typical postings about it go as follows:

Patterns on use of Nokia N810: how the N810’s particular convergence of memory size, connectivity, processing speed, storage and UI bandwidth gets very close to ideal for me

I am using the Nokia N810 more and more, and finding myself increasingly charmed by the device, its community, and Nokia itself. I find that uncommon (I am increasingly disenchanted with technologies, and hold very little respect for its ability to do any good), but at the same time somehow enjoyable. Well beyond the point at which I hit the hype curve’s down-slide with other gadgets, I keep finding more reasons to like it. That is strange…