Here's a reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6r2tIaRXU :) (Even if you won't use that particular app...the possibilities are there...)
Really, though, you want to consider Evernote if you get the iPhone (which I think they have for the Blackberry, too, but that came after Evernote for the iPhone, ironically enough). I have all of the SCA documents I need - handbooks, forms, laws, etc. - loaded into Evernote.
It's a neat application...you can make notes in Evernote (text notes, voice notes, picture notes) or you can email documents to your account at Evernote or load documents up through the client app on your desktop (Mac or Windows) or you can use the website as a client, too.
Basically, they index your document (and run OCR on any pictures you upload) so you can search through any of the clients. Need to see the docs relating to minors in the SCA? Easy...search for "minor" and it'll list them all :)
My favorite thing is the photo integration, though. You can take photos from the app or access photos you've taken separately with the camera (or any other image you've loaded into Evernote through one of the other methods). I no longer worry about missing anything on the whiteboard in meetings...I just snap a pic of the whiteboard. Snap another pic of my handwritten notes, too, and it'll index those. No real worry about bad handwriting...I'm sure it could be bad enough to not be indexed...but I've yet to see that ;)
It's a free app; it has a subscription option if you wind up needing to upload lots of photos or hundred or thousands of text notes...but most people won't need that functionality. For digitally-comfortable officers in a group like the SCA, though, it's really, really useful. Email newcomers handbooks at demos straight from the phone, etc...
As for databases, what kinds of databases? You want to have an arbitrary database on the phone or have one accessible over the net? For MP3s and video files, you can go through iTunes or if you just want to load it on there for retrieval elsewhere, it's usable as a harddrive, too.
I'm like you, I don't use the phone as a phone often at all...but it really is more of a mini tablet computer.
Won't try and convert you to GMail, but I didn't like the lack of organization initially until I realized that between filters, tags/categories and stars, you get all of the benefits of folders without the limitations.
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Date: 2009-07-16 01:34 am (UTC)Really, though, you want to consider Evernote if you get the iPhone (which I think they have for the Blackberry, too, but that came after Evernote for the iPhone, ironically enough). I have all of the SCA documents I need - handbooks, forms, laws, etc. - loaded into Evernote.
It's a neat application...you can make notes in Evernote (text notes, voice notes, picture notes) or you can email documents to your account at Evernote or load documents up through the client app on your desktop (Mac or Windows) or you can use the website as a client, too.
Basically, they index your document (and run OCR on any pictures you upload) so you can search through any of the clients. Need to see the docs relating to minors in the SCA? Easy...search for "minor" and it'll list them all :)
My favorite thing is the photo integration, though. You can take photos from the app or access photos you've taken separately with the camera (or any other image you've loaded into Evernote through one of the other methods). I no longer worry about missing anything on the whiteboard in meetings...I just snap a pic of the whiteboard. Snap another pic of my handwritten notes, too, and it'll index those. No real worry about bad handwriting...I'm sure it could be bad enough to not be indexed...but I've yet to see that ;)
It's a free app; it has a subscription option if you wind up needing to upload lots of photos or hundred or thousands of text notes...but most people won't need that functionality. For digitally-comfortable officers in a group like the SCA, though, it's really, really useful. Email newcomers handbooks at demos straight from the phone, etc...
As for databases, what kinds of databases? You want to have an arbitrary database on the phone or have one accessible over the net? For MP3s and video files, you can go through iTunes or if you just want to load it on there for retrieval elsewhere, it's usable as a harddrive, too.
I'm like you, I don't use the phone as a phone often at all...but it really is more of a mini tablet computer.
Won't try and convert you to GMail, but I didn't like the lack of organization initially until I realized that between filters, tags/categories and stars, you get all of the benefits of folders without the limitations.