Look ma, hands
I received two new toys this week. One is a folding keyboard for my Palm TX. I’ve had this Palm, my third, for a few months and it’s just the greatest thing. Music, movies, pictures, books, email, web surfing, along with all the normal Palm stuff like contacts and calendar. It’s become the tool my previous two never were.
Its biggest weakness has been text entry. Graffiti, its hand writing recognition, isn’t that easy to use. After fighting Graffiti for years, I recently started poking the on-screen keyboard instead. I find both methods detract from the flow of ideas into text. The new keyboard, when folded, is about 1 and a half the size of the Palm.
I’m traveling on vacation soon. I’ve never taken technology, other than a camera, with me on such trips. Choosing instead to vacation from technology as well. I’m planning to take the Palm this time so I can write, check email and surf on the road.
I’m hoping to use the palm for a diary, a day book. I’m not sure it’s a good idea. I have a pile of paper notebooks full of musings from past vacations. Do I add the Palm to the stack? It’s the same question I ask comparing digital pictures to prints or slides. I haven’t resolved the question, but I continue to move to the future and hope for the best.