Over the years I have collected a huge number of Bookmarks (Favourites) but a year or so ago I realised that I very rarely do anything with them. Around that time I discovered a couple of different services that changed the way I referenced different sites on the web.
The first of these was a Firefox Add-On called Speed Dial. It is similar to the Chrome home page but allows you to configure the sites you use the most. Almost everything can be customised, the number of ‘Dials’ on a page, the number of pages and the images used to represent them.
This add on effectively removed the need for my bookmark collection. I transferred all the favourites I use on a regular basis and reduced my bookmark bar to one button.
The second app was Instapaper. This is one of a range of apps that are designed to save web pages for later reading. It is very simple to use, involving one click of a bookmark to save a page and another click to retrieve your reading list later.
In theory this is all that’s needed but there were some features offered by other apps that started to look attractive. Unfortunately all of these services went down the now familiar route of offering an iPhone app and nothing for anyone else.
Instapaper redeemed itself by offering a very mobile friendly web page. It can be accessed using any of the mobile browsers available and works fairly well on all of them. Not as good as a dedicated app, but better than anything else on offer. Until now!
The most attractive competitor to Instapaper was Read It Later (RIL). It offered a Firefox Add-On as well as an extension for Chrome. Unfortunately though, it didn’t look too good on my Touch2.
Yesterday this changed and for me, it’s put RIL well into the lead. Hakan Serce published his first beta of LateReader. It’s available from FreewarePocketPC.net, directly from his website or from the XDA Developers forum.
This is a first release and, as such, does not have the full feature set planned by the developer. However, his plans go well beyond the basic. This release already does everything I would consider essential. So the future should bring something really special.
At the moment this WinMo app is not mentioned on the RIL website. You can find it using the links below.
Ever since I’ve needed to take handfuls of tablets on a regular basis, my memory has leaked like a sieve! I’ve tried many methods to try and overcome this but they have usually fallen at one of the posts they have come across. Once again, the biggest hurdle has been Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, this is just about the only thing I can’t change because of my employers bizarre insistence on using this out of date dinosaur.
There are several worthy contenders when it comes to online note writing. These vary in complexity but most people will probably find all they need in Evernote, the market leader.
Evernote has the full trilogy of Desktop, Web Based and Mobile applications. They cover most of the Smartphone operating systems (not just iPhone) and have browser integration that works both on and off line.
Unfortunately though, they don’t support IE6. Not a problem if you can install the Desk Top programme but this is another facility that is not available to me at work!
The alternative I’ve opted for up until now is good old Email. I have a fantastic little app on my Windows Mobile called Thought. It is set up to send an email to a single address. So I can open the app with one click, write the note and send it with another click. Off goes the email! Combine this with Gmail’s ‘plus’ and label features and I can have the note highlighted in my inbox.
This is good. But, all the notes are given the same priority and it’s a bit of a guddle trying to separate them from my normal emails
I had seen Uberbnote in the passing a while ago but never gave it much thought. Second time around 
though, it really caught my eye.
Ubernote is web based. It doesn’t have the apps that Evernote does but this makes it much simpler to get going with. There is a special ‘mobile’ url that creates a mobile friendly environment and there are extensions available for Chrome and Firefox.
When using IE6, they post a friendly note about your use of an outdated browser. Once that’s gone, the system works perfectly. All notes can be tagged and searched for in a simple, user friendly UI.
Of course, there are loads of other options out there but these are the best I have used. I did like Google Notes which had a nice slick interface but although it still exists, I am a little unsure of using it since Google withdrew support.
For now, it’s UberNote instead of email.
Let me know if you think I’ve missed something better.
http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Thought/ (Note: This was MUCH cheaper when I purchased it through Windows Mobile Marketplace. Once purchased, WMMP doesn’t let you see prices so I don’t know if this is still the case. Worth checking though!).
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