![]() The tasks and notes trail off right around the summer of 2008… the same time the iPhone App Store launched. This morning I was flipping through it again, when I realized something curious. My pocket Moleskine sits in the same box as all my used and unused Field Notes.įrom time to time I’ll page through that old hipster PDA and just look at page after page after page of tasks I’d written down and crossed off. Like Brett, I also keep my old notebooks. It served as my to-do list and note-taking tool. However, the not-as-awesome side to digital tools is that when a task is completed it disappears and leaves no trace it ever existed no scratched out note commemorating a job well done and a hard day’s work.įor a year and a half I kept a hipster PDA in the form of a small, pocket-sized Moleskine. There is the awesome side: your tasks and projects are scalable, collaborative, in sync between all your devices, and you can easily attach emails, URLs, photos, and all sorts of other data to your tasks. There are two sides to the digital task- and project-management coin. Kids recognize a truth we try to forget as adults - a physical representation of an achievement gives you something to hold on to.īrett’s right. It might seem childish, or at least child-like, to want to commemorate important events with ribbons and trophies and badges - but that’s unfair and unkind. I think we forget sometimes how important that is. ![]() There’s nothing to grasp, nothing to point to, no buildings or monuments to your labor. As a result, smartwatches on the market today appeal mostly to tech geeks who are interested in some of those few interesting features (namely notifications, map directions, and the intersection of smartphones and watches), but they’re not really smart because they generally fetch data from a primary device - the smartphone - and they’re not really good as watches either.īrett Peters worked remotely as an IT professional for 7 years, until suddenly the company he was working for shut its doors.īrett wrote an excellent article about the sudden change, and he shares some of his thoughts on the past 7 years of doing digital work and working remotely for a tech company:īuilding virtual things leaves very little behind. ![]() Most smartwatches I see today are bulky, have some convenient features, and try to cram features and apps from smartphones and tablets into a form factor that’s both new and old (watches have been around for centuries), but the “smartwatch” tech gadget has become a trend only recently. Smartphones were bulky, had some convenient features, and tried to cram old metaphors of PC software into a new form factor, resulting in baby software. The current crop of smartwatches feels like a replay of smartphones before the iPhone. Great article by Federico Viticci regarding the potential for wearable tech, and how the a “smartwatch that only displays notifications and counts steps misses the point entirely”:
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