If someone tells me an appointment time, I will grab my phone and be triggered to look at different things before I remember to put in the appointment info. Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2009. They were my everyday surf spots I had one of the early PalmPilots and a Sony Clie PEG-NX80 – ultimately upgraded to the Palm TX which I still have – used it as my peripheral brain with HanDBase which they make for iPhone and Android.James, this article was specifically about Palm devices. Recall in 2000 have the latest pPalm style device was the definition of tech cool. How I loved that device! I take a ton of notes - I'm the type that has to hand write something to get it to "stick" in my brain, so I figured I'd be able to digitally write my notes down, always have them near me and be less distracted by my phone.I've been trying in little ways. And yes, e-books! Sounds like an Instagram project! I still have one or two of them around here somewhere tho.Wow I forgot about those anodized metal cases.
Thanks for being The Gadgeteer.Hi Mary, thank you for sharing your comments.Good memory Chris! It’s been Android for me too for the last several years. One year, my family got together to buy me a Palm TX for my birthday!Hi Bruce, I’d love to look back at Psion but unfortunately, I don’t have any Psion devices these days Maybe it’s time for an eBay expedition!I think I have a bag of old styluses somewhere. Same problems, except now I also have my notes spread across many notebooks with no real idea of what information is where.Prefer more phone and less PDA? The PalmPilot with its grey plastic housing, matching “toothpick” stylus, and iconic black on green non-back lit LCD display is the device that you can really thank for the Gadgeteer website. I remember being shipped a 128K memory board to replace the original and then later a 256K board…….Great article. I also have my notifications turned off for when I'm at home on wi-fi.With notebooks/paper, my main problem again is that I'm scatter brained. Loved that one, right up until I dropped and broke it. Still modern enough to not draw too much attention, but much more functional than a palm pilot. My first touch screen PDA was a Sony P800. I sweated the P800 till I got the Blackberry 8700 with the tiny track ball. But then I adjusted my table leg and the table no longer sits unevenly on the floor.I think that's a cool idea. Also, the Centro lost all Internet connectivity a while back. Lawrence Horwitz. The PalmPilot was a line of PDAs (palmtop computers) first produced by Palm in 1992 with the lead of Jeff Hawkins.Their first PDA was called the Zoomer before they were purchased by U.S. Robotics in 1995.After the purchase, U.S. Robotics released several hundred thousand PalmPilots. Thanks for it all!! Thanks again.Here’s an interesting tidbit… I “hacked” that Sprint branded Treo 650 to work on the Verizon network. Not only more fiscally responsible, but seriously reducing waste in landfills. I never got one because of the iPhone coming out and squashing the Web OS. I basically need a stand alone digital planner.It seems like smartphones are not for you.The simplicity/usability of Palm is still better in some ways.was just looking for myself, and kindle fires are super cheap compared to others, and should be plenty of power and space for productivity stuff.Shorter answer is that I think you need to figure out a way to fight your digital addiction and this probably would not do that. An upgrade kit was also available, which allowed users of the earlier Pilot 1000/5000devices to upgrade the OS, ROM, and RAM to match the PalmPilot Professional. I used to go for months on a single set of batteries.Has anyone had to go this route?I love planners and stationary, but I've gone through hundreds of dollars of finding the "right" one, and then I get sucked into the stickers and decorating, which I really do love doing, only to feel like it's wasted on paper if I don't actually use my planner.
I've tried several apps that block different apps on my phone, but that doesn't work for me. It was like they threw everything but the kitchen sink into each new model just to see which features would stick. I now carry a single reporter style monlskine notebook and a pen in my back pocket. Then people debated having a pda and a phone. That’s the story of my life Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan were the inventors of the PalmPilot and ended up leaving USRobotics/3Com/Palm Computing to start their own company called Handspring. That was a very cool device for the time. That would also prevent productivity loss by stopping the likely questions from people asking if you have a palm pilot.I just got a galaxy book specifically for my school, digital planning and work.