iPod Touch, Unboxed
October 4, 2007I suddenly like the idea of an iPod Touch at my side. I think it would make the coolest notepad, ever.
I hate paper. Whatever I write on paper it gets transcribed to my Mac at some stage anyway so why not write once and let automation do its thing? I’ve tried so called hipster PDAs, and plain old paper pads, but they are so last century.
Right now I am writing this on my Dell Pocket PC and that’s fine and good, but even after years and years of using a stylus on a soft plastic screen, there’s always that nagging fear at the back of my mind that a particle of grit is going to find its way onto the screen and get dragged by the nib — leaving a scratch. It’s a real shiver down the spine feeling that once experienced you never want to repeat.
The screen of the Dell is flawless, but there’s always that fear. So, turning our attention to the iPod Touch, it has a glass screen and the input method is my squishy thumbs. I could hammer away for hours, during a dust storm if need be.
This is huge.
Yes, I know there is no Notes app on the Touch. It does have Contacts though, and new contacts can be created and synced back to the Address Book on the Mac. Those contacts have a Notes field and that’s where the “Think outside the box” killer app resides. I will of course need to try out this theory on a demo Touch to see if it all actually works as hoped. If it does then hello ultimate notepad. Oh, and it also includes music, movies and Safari…
