You can call me Ned
3:31pm, Tuesday 22 January 2008
To the amusement of some people, I think I'm becoming a neo-Luddite.
I've abandoned my Palm TE2 PDA in favour of an old-fashioned Filofax. I bought the Palm last year, after my previous PDA (a Palm m505) died due to static shock. However I was disappointed with various defects:
- The screen produced an audible buzz when switched on.
- There were obvious bugs in the built-in applications; some manifested as crashes which required a reset.
- The hinge of the screen cover/protector was very flimsy and is already almost worn through.
- The straw which broke the camel's back: irredeemable digitiser drift. A tap on the screen isn't registered at the place tapped, which makes selecting icons or menu items tricky at best. The drift is so bad that it's impossible to recalibrate the digitiser. Even third-party apps can't fix it.
So, back to paper. There are a lot of articles on the web about the benefits of a paper organiser, so I won't reiterate all of them here. Just to compare the advantages of my Filofax with the drawbacks I found with my Palm:
- It's silent.
- It doesn't crash, and has no bugs.
- It's robust. (I don't care if I drop it!)
- My pen always writes where I want it to.
Oh yes, and paper is calm.
The only two real disadvantages are that I can't back it up to my computer; and the cut-and-paste interface really sucks...
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