Nov 09
One other thing to add to our synchronize series is notes.
By notes, I actually mean more or less organized data. Ideas, quotes, shopping lists and stuff like that.
I always carry some index cards along with a small notebook to be able to jot ideas from anywhere. Another thing I carry all the time is my iPhone so why not using it to takes notes?
Because it’s easier to organize notes on a computer, and because it saves trees, I’ve been looking around for something that is :
- fast enough to use instead of the old pen and paper
Tagged with: iphone • macosx • software • synchronisation
Oct 29
The next post of our “synchronize” series is going to be about Files and Documents. Some are important enough that you always need to have access to them. How can you do this ?
There are many ways to have files synced around multiple place, let’s go through them.
The most obvious is certainly having an USB key containing your most important file and that you carry with you. But there are some drawbacks to an USB key : you can forget it, you can loose it (and imagine the troubles you can be in if you haven’t encrypted files on your key), you can have it in the pocket of the wrong coat or the wrong jeans etc.
Tagged with: dropbox • iphone • macosx • software • synchronisation
Oct 21
This first post of the “Synchronize” series is about Calendar and Contacts. To me having those synchronized is the first step towards a hassle-free life. No more contact data loss, no more forgotten appointments. Wherever you are, you need to be able to trust your system.
The goal is to have a multi-directional sync of your calendar events and of your contacts between your devices and your computers.
Tagged with: calendar • contact • google • iphone • macosx • synchronisation
Oct 12
Nowadays, with the multiplication of capable devices, and the mix between the private and the professional sphere, one of the key of productivity is to avoid loosing time synchronizing manually files and multiple data between your devices and places.
Imagine that you have a smartphone, a personal laptop, a family computer and a professional computer. Now think about all the datas you could need at the same time on each device : contact, agenda, email, rss feeds, bookmarks, notes, todos, files, music,… Add to this the need to access some data from anywhere (friends place, clients office, …). And finally, consider that your devices don’t obligatory run the same OS and don’t always run the same applications.
Tagged with: improve • process • synchronisation
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