[NTLK] Purchasing a newton

[Bob Carls Dudney]

Christian, that's close to a virtuoso explication how Newt remains 
the personal productivity superstar of computing. While Newt is 
incomparable without it, MorInfo is no small reason Newt remains the 
nearly exclusive IT department* of my medical practice; also thanks 
to PalMedic: I mainly just use a Mac to do my web site, ever 
lamenting Newt's execution as I klunk and mistype chained to a 
keyboard.

*one need look no further why techies got Newt had to go: By far 
greatest threat to their job security ever. While Apple would still 
have shifted manufacturing to Chinese enslavement work camps, they 
wouldn't have accumulated tens of $Billions in their Midas cash hoard.

Cheers!

B

On 05/09/10, Lord Groundhog wrote: 
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>  > Linking to a Name only necessary in a commercial sales environment
>
>Commercial environments aren't the only reason to use linking tasks, 
>meetings and phone calls to a contact.
>
>First, the Newton is ideal for therapists and counsellors, making it
>possible to keep session-notes unobtrusively and file them easily, linked
>with the client's Names card and with the appointment.  All calls and
>appointments can be linked back to the Names card too.  And of course all
>that material can be printed out to produce written files if that's what you
>want. 
>
>Second, a little lateral thinking can work wonders.  To give just one
>example: 
>
>Step 1:  create Names cards for each teacher/class
>Step 2:  create term outlines, lecture notes, lab notes, project notes,
>small group activities, tutorials, reports, reading lists, bibliographical
>notes, or whatever, for each teacher/class, and **link all those back to the
>teacher/class**.   (When you're doing more than one module of bio or chem or
>physics, you can get lost as to which assignmnet belongs where sometimes.
>Or maybe that's just me.)
>Step 3:  create folders for "Finished Work" if that helps.  Move finished
>work to ...well, you get the idea.  Perhaps also create folders for previous
>years if you're likely to want to refer back to previous years' work;
>otherwise, move previous years' work into a permanent off-Newt location.
>Step 4 (optional):  create folders (using More Folders if you need) to
>create folders for each class OR just for each term or year.
>STEP 5 (NOT OPTIONAL!):  back up.  Back up!  BACK UP!
>
>If only the Newton had existed back in my university days!   Maybe I'd have
>spent less time organizing/doing my work and even more time listening to
>Hendrix and Airplane and Cream and Dylan and ...   Actually, maybe it
>wouldn't have accomplished all that for me, but the time I did spend working
>would've been even more productive.   That's assuming the dinosaurs would've
>let me plug my Newton into the wall socket in my cave to recharge it.  ;-)
>
>
>And there are other ways to use links between stuff.  Something that just
>hits me is that if I were writing a thesis now, I **might** get yet another
>Newton and devote it exclusively to my sources:  authorities (published or
>in lecture form), interviewees and other sources of research data.  A Names
>card per author, with links to other authors when he/she publishes
>collaboratively, and with links to the notes I take from each publication.
>Likewise links between interviewees where that's relevant.  Further links as
>needed to the chapters, footnotes, and so on.  Links to meetings with my
>supervisor.   Links between various sources where appropriate.
>
>And of course, since Names allows you to create "groups" of individuals,
>sources can be grouped as (for instance) authors, interviewees, lecturers,
>and other sources.  Just as in my previous example teachers/classes can be
>grouped so that (assuming a bachelor degree situation) teachers/classes in
>one's major might be grouped separately from electives or audited classes.
>Or whatever.  The Newt is so flexible that some of its limitations are
>really just the limits of our imagination.
>
>And of course, moving to a slightly different and not necessarily academic
>application, project management and planning can benefit from linking.
>Whether it's a fiddly hobby project, like sourcing and purchasing
>custom-made parts for building your own astronomy telescope or restoring a
>classic car, or something job-oriented that requires organization to execute
>steps over a period of time, Names cards can be used to ID the key elements
>of the project Names don't have to be people or companies!  Create a card
>for each piece of that 1932 Woody you're rebuilding, include it in the Group
>you create called "Parts" or something.  Then, link it to a card for the
>supplier(s) and to the Dates appointment for when you have to have by (I
>assume you need to space out the purchases if like me you don't have the
>kind of spare cash that lets you buy it all at once or the kind of space
>that lets you store it all), and link it to the note that tells you what to
>do with it, and you have a different but maybe helpful way to get things
>done on a schedule if you're very busy and life tends to get away from you a
>bit. 
>
>
>Just a little sideways thinking, FWIW.  :-)
>
>
>Shalom.
>Christian
>