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Sound recording

As a first post… One of the obvious things is to use the Treo as a voice recorder. It takes a firmware upgrade to make that possible, but then there is a choice of software to use.

All of them record to .wav files, all of them can record directly to the SD Card, all of them allow for different quality levels of recording. As of yet, I don’t need a lot of fancy things, so SoundRec is perfect. Main drawback is that it’s not possible to even check the length of a recording. But as a simple (and free) "sound input tool" it matches my needs.

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Up and running?

Starting to use blogging as a note-taking tool… Let’s see how that works. I’m trying to use the gaim-blogger plugin for Gaim to make this as easy as possible, since I have my instant messaging program open mostly. My data life seems to slowly take shape around a few programs.

  • Firefox as the browser desktop, to surf the net, find things, and develop websites and such.
  • Agendus and Bonsai as contact, time, and task management tools, synchronising nicely with my Treo.
  • Gaim and TheBat as communication tools, for either instant or asynchronous exchange of messages.

Notes and unstructured information still don’t really have a place. Sometimes they end up in Bonsai, sometimes in all kinds of files, and so now perhaps also sometimes here… What I like about the idea to put it here is that I can publish it to my website, and run my personal search engine over bookmarks, notes, writings, etc. So it becomes accessible again in my main "info gathering environment", the browser.