Lilia Efimova (fresh from her trip to Moscow) writes…..

Martin picks up my yesterday’s note about the need to change my usual “everything web-based” working style since I got TabletPC and explains his struggles and solutions for synchronising online and offline data. Given lots of interests we share it’s not surprising that Martin reframes it as more general question:

I wonder how Personal Information Management Software will develop in the future. How are we going to cope with the different spaces we are in and the accessibiloty of our online and offline data? Shall we just put everything on the web and hope for permanent broadband connectivity anywhere? (Nice idea, but how are you going to survive the next five years while this is not an option?) How are you managing your data? Where do you keep it? How do you make it accessible, for you, for others?

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I’d love to hear your thoughts as well. I guess it’s not much about the software, but our ways of using it

[Mathemagenic]

YES! It’s always about how we use software, it’s just that the nerds have so much to say about what they’re doing - they often lose track of why.

I’ve started to use an Xdrive account - to back everything up and have it readily accessible - if I don’t have my laptopwith me.

I’ve switched to MT for blogging and I have an ODDpost account for email - which I use as my backup mail.

But I still have Outlook as my primary account and make CD backups of everything on my portable laptop. So I’m still tethered to the off-line model - even though I’ve been on-line since 1994 with ISDN or better.

I’ve actually gotten a lot of work done while traveling - as I WASN’T able to blog and check email every :10 minutes.

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