It is all about the people. Reducing the complexity is a key to making software that interacts with people in ways that are familiar to them.
Synchronising online and offline personal data.
Martin picks up my yesterday's note about the need to change my usual "everything web-based" working style since I got TabletPC and explains his struggles and solutions for synchronising online and offline data. Given lots of interests we share it's not surprising that Martin reframes it as more general question:
I wonder how Personal Information Management Software will develop in the future. How are we going to cope with the different spaces we are in and the accessibiloty of our online and offline data? Shall we just put everything on the web and hope for permanent broadband connectivity anywhere? (Nice idea, but how are you going to survive the next five years while this is not an option?) How are you managing your data? Where do you keep it? How do you make it accessible, for you, for others?
(If your story is long and you don't want to post it as a comment do email me! I can put together some of your writings in a seperate entry or republish your story as an own article if you like.)
I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. I guess it's not much about the software, but our ways of using it :)
[Mathemagenic]
