Curiouser and Curiouser! on pocketmod http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic pocketmod Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb A long jumbly, satisfying, chain of coincidences Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:22:42 +0100 <p>This is lovely. <a href="http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/2005/10/05/bookshelf/">Julian Elve</a> contacted me this morning to let me know about a problem with permalinks on my blog (now fixed I hope, thanks Julian). He was trying to link to my post <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2005/10/04.html#a2015">What's on your bookshelf?</a>. Not surprisingly Julian's pile is strategy, strategy, strategy. I don't like to think that hard ;-)</p> <p>But in catching up on Julians stuff I caught a link to <a href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/10/looking_for_blo.html">Ed Vielmetti musing</a> about a blogging tool that would allow <em>marginal notes</em> next to his posts. I'm not sure I want that because, for me, marginal notes are thinking spaces whereas I tend to edit and re-edit blog posts into (hopefully) integrated thoughts. But if there was such a tool I'd certainly try it. Maybe transcluding a <a href="http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2005/10/03/writeboard ">WriteBoard page</a> for each post (especially if they did <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/synchroedit_the.html">implement SynchroEdit</a>) would work?</p> <p>Anyway, following Ed's train of thoughts led through the <a href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/10/seiri_and_web_d.html">Kaizen principle of "seiri"</a> (wuh?) and a fantastic sounding holiday, <a href="http://www.metagrrrl.com/discardia/">Discardia</a>, where you throw stuff away and general <em>let go</em>. Interesting stuff.</p> <p>But we're not done, there is <a href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/10/seiri_and_web_d.html">also talk</a> of <a href="http://www.moleskine.co.uk/">Moleskine notebooks</a> which lead me to <a href="http://www.mojolondon.co.uk/">Mojo</a> who sell them in the UK and even have a shop in Richmond, just down the road from me.</p> <p>Almost better than this though is the <a href="http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/09/paperpoint_pock.html">introduction to PocketMod</a> which is a fantastic PDA on a sheet of A4. I'm staggered at the beautiful simplicity of this idea. I printed one out and then boggled at the folding instructions.</p> <p>If you ever want to see a concrete demonstration of the difference between people with spacial thought and those without ask me and <a href="http://blog.grahamsadd.com/">Graham</a> to fold one of these things. I was looking at it, mumbling "this is page 1, and this is, no wait". Graham picked it up, fold, fold, tear, fold, fold and handed it to me. <strong>Gobsmacked!</strong></p> <p>So I'm pleased to report that I have fixed my permalinks, learned a little about <a href="http://www.semiconfareast.com/5S.htm">seiri</a>, thought about when I'll celebrate <em>Discardia</em> (I'm moving soon, that seems like a good omen), begun to lust after a Moleskine notebook, and have a neato <a href="http://www.pocketmod.com/">PocketMod</a>.</p> <p>Some mornings life is good :-)</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002991.html Greater than the sum of its parts Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:31:01 +0100 <p>I've just realised that my <a href="http://www.pocketmod.com/">pocketmod</a> fits beautifully in the expandable pocket of my <a href="http://www.mojolondon.co.uk/product.php?sku=02112">Moleskine pocketbook</a>. Neat.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003011.html