Registered: Sep 1999
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Discuss how the Visor can be a memory replacement here.

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James Hromadka
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Registered: Oct 1999
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I have the same thought. That's why I bought a REX 5000 and keep it in my wallet in case I lose my Palm on the road. You never know...

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
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Me too, except I've got a Rex 3. Without my PDA, I'd be missing deadlines all over the place.

My brain is like a sieve.

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Y do you think that it goes to every place I go ?

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Mililani, HI, USA
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I thought I remember reading somewhere that a doctor or other claimed that PDAs are actually making us dumber...Nowadays I don't absolutely disagree with him.

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

On second thought...

Yes, I rely more and more on my Visor, which finds itself into my shirt pocket even on weekends. In fact, I've actually begun to eschew shirts without breast pockets.

On a similar vein, has anyone found themselves actually being short with colleagues or family members that are non-PDA enabled, and their inability to reference deadlines, contact information, and/or email either in a staff meeting or at a nonbusiness event?

I am really excited about the Memplug app that lets you read and launch apps directly from SmartMedia. My question is only how big a card I really want (another 8, 16, 32 or 64MB???). I think my brain only needs another 16MB (thats 8MB I know I would use, and another 8MB I suspect I would use).

There is a history of Alzheimers in my family. I expect Handspring products to help me ward off the ravages of the disease for some time to come (better order that Memplug with a 64MB Card).

Now if I can only remember where I put the damn thing....

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Cascade, MD
Posts: 74

I wish I didn't agree so completely with that article! I call my Visor my Other Brain...I also have a Rex to carry the information in smaller purses, etc. and, with those and the memory on the phones, I have no clue what anyone's phone number is any more and even my own daughter's address is not a sure thing! My life is scheduled on that calendar in DateBook3. My husband automatically says, ask the Visor!

I'm sure that my memory is getting less sharp, but is that the Visor... or the years?

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Originally posted by ragamuffinn
I thought I remember reading somewhere that a doctor or other claimed that PDAs are actually making us dumber...Nowadays I don't absolutely disagree with him.

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Registered: Jan 2001
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I am still in high school so my memory isn't that bad but I do find that I am relying more and more on my VDX. Now what they should make for all of you is a springboard so you can sync your REX with your Visor.

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
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I got a PDA becuse ...

1) I've used a planner for about a decade. It's difficult to be without an easily-accessed schedule.
2) I often use lists. all those scraps of paper ...
3) I have so many things I need to know, having the more "trivial" info written down is soo helpful, and I can worry about the bigger things. Like where I left my car.
4) it's helpful to have that trivial info accessible to me whenever I need it
5) I wanted something smaller than my bulky planner, yet could hold more information

I don't feel my Visor has made me dumber. In some ways it's simplified my life -- I don't have to copy down stuff that's on my computer, I can just sync it over -- and in others made it a little more complicated --worrying about the fragility of an electronic device; all that graffiti.

Besides, if I want to remove someone from my address book, I'm not stuck with a messy cross-out -- select "delete" and they're gone!

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Registered: May 2001
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Old news...

I've said for a long time that "If it isn't in my computer, I don't know it."

That's why I've carried a portable computer of one type or another for nearly 20 years, and why the only time my visor *isn't* on my belt is when I'm not wearing pants. Period.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Cascade, MD
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"Now what they should make for all of you is a springboard so you can sync your REX with your Visor."


That is exactly what I am hoping for - but I guess that rumor is still just that: a rumor!

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
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My visor is, as one VisorCentral poster observer, the "Third Lobe of my Brain".

But it also remembers lots of stuff that I never could keep straight. Like my the license plate number of my wife's car, and important information needed when applying for a loan.

This is why I have the SecurityHack on my Visor.

You have to be careful. Wasn't there a movie a few years back about a rogue who got his hands on some VIP's DayPlanner, and used it to assume the VIP's identity?

But my Visor allows me to keep on top of things that I didn't even try to keep track of before. Like my budget. QuikBudget allows me to enter in purchases at the time of purchase instead of waiting til I get home to my home computer.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: Chicago
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The stolen flilofax movie was "Taking Care of Business" starring Jim Belushi and Charles Grodin.

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There is a history of Alzheimers in my family. I expect Handspring products to help me ward off the ravages of the disease for some time to come (better order that Memplug with a 64MB Card).

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Their products will only help you until you reach the point where you look at your address book and say,
"WHO THE HELL IS THAT!?"

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While I use my name as my used id, I should have used, "my brain"

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I disagree. Before PDA's people used a little something called paper

People always used paper notes little address cards or a planner. Having a PDA does not make things any different save easier and more efficient. I just think that there is so much more information than there used to be.

In the past people used to have a phone number. You could memorize that. These days you have phone numbers, fax numbers. cell phones and email addresses of witch who can remember all of them

No one used to memorize tons of information any more back say 20 years ago than we do today. We just have so much more that we need a PDA!

I also want to say that I feel the main reason people are more stupid today, and they seem to be, is the fact that our educational system is very bad. Most students� graduating from High School cannot even tell you how many feet in a yard or pints in a quart. It is truly sad.

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Registered: May 2001
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All true.
There are a lot more numbers that we have to remember these days. Before, you used to have to remember just one phone number. Now days it's the home phone, work phone, fax, home fax (maybe), work email, home email, address, on and on and on. I can't even remember all of my own information. Right now I couldn't tell you what my license plate number is. But I could tell you what my IP address is. Our lives are taking different directions. We have more clients to deal with, more projects to handle -- all at the same time. People often work AND go to school to earn a post-secondary degree. Let's face is people. Our lives are just more jam packed these days. Just look at teenagers. Have you ever had to do as much homework as they do? I'm 23 now, in my high school days (parochial) I had a ton of homework. It seems it's just getting worse for kids in that age group, and all of their extra-curricular stuff too! I'm not surprised to see teenagers buying these devices.

Also, as consumers knowing how ultimately portable these are, we tend to soup them up completely to not only replace our DayPlanners, but our laptops too. And in doing this, our little trusty Visors become an appendage. But I don't mind, it's a matter of evolution. Maybe someday we will be talking about how much it will cost us to have our PDAs surgically inserted into our forearms or something.

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Originally posted by PastaGrrrl
Right now I couldn't tell you what my license plate number is. But I could tell you what my IP address is.

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