Rethinking Phones, Part II: Cell Phones

[livingdeb]

I am not currently a normal cell phone user.

Cell phones are not REVOs.I'm still sore about cell phones not being as good as my old REVO. That's a hand-held device from the Palm Pilot days which I originally got because it had a small keyboard. Reviews said it was too tiny to use like a typewriter, but I have tiny fingers, so I tried it

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[piefessor]

On any Android phone you can use Google sheets and make spreadsheets of everything. That's what I do and it syncs with my laptop automatically.

[livingdeb]

Thanks. I'll be checking out out stuff like this.

hmm

[ext_3012956]

I have an iPhone with Dropbox installed (which also works fine on an Android phone) and I too can edit spreadsheets (Excel ones) without a problem. I can also cut and paste (on either type of phone) though it is not as simple as on a computer. It's also easy to keep any kind of notes you want in either an Android phone or an iPhone (and surely the same is true of a Windows phone

Re: hmm

[livingdeb]

More good ideas! I would never even have guessed that some sort of keyboard case existed.

I'm home a lot and currently don't mind most of my stuff being available only from home. But things change.

Evernote

[indigo_rose99]

One of the many things I miss about my Palm was the ability to copy/paste info on the PC to my PC palm app. Then the next time I synced, it was also on my Palm.

While I'm generally against cloud storage, there are many pieces of info out there (recipies, book series order being big examples) that I don't care of others know I have.

Thus, I'm slowly using an App called Evernote more. It has a PC app, into which I can write lists and text. Then the next time I'm on wifi, it uploads to my phone. And I can see my data even when I'm offline.

Re: Evernote

[livingdeb]

I've heard you taking about this. I will keep it in mind. Thanks!