Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [108]
Livescribe Web site. http://www.livescribe.com
IOgear Digital Scribe pen. http://www.iogear.com/product/GPEN100C
IBM Pensieve:
Aizenbud-Reshef, Neta, et al. “Pensieve: Augmenting Human Memory.” Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Florence, Italy, 2008.
Oregon Scientific and Hammacher Schlemmer have body-mounted cameras. Hammacher Schlemmer even has a diving mask with built-in camera.
Oregon Scientific. http://www2.oregonscientific.com
Hammacher Schlemmer. http://www.hammacher.com
Audio recording is easily accomplished with small recorders from Sony, Philips, Olympus, and others.
Martin, James A. 2008. “The Best Digital Voice Recorder.” PC World (April 23).
Digital Voice Recorders, Consumer search report. http://www.consumersearch.com/digital-voice-recorders
For GPS logging, I am currently using a Semsons i-Blue 747. Garmin, Magellan, and others also make devices.
Semsons Web site. http://www.semsons.com
Garmin Web site. http://www.garmin.com
Magellan Web site. http://www.magellangps.com
Geo-tagging:
Microsoft ProPhoto Tools Web site. http://www.microsoft.com/prophotodownloads/tools.aspx
HoudahGeo Web site. http://www.houdah.com/houdahGeo/
Yahoo Research has some excellent people working on geo-tagging. Their ZoneTag lets you upload you photos to Flickr with location tags.
ZoneTag Web site. http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com
Eisenberg describes cloud storage and sharing services of files, including Syncplicity and Dropbox.
Eisenberg, Anna. 2009. “Digital Storage Options for Workers on the Go.” The New York Times (January 17).
Dropbox Web site. http://www.getdropbox.com
Syncplicity Web site. http://www.syncplicity.com
Tools for home storage and media serving:
Microsoft Windows Home Server Web page. http: //www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
Apple’s Time Machine Web page. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
Apple’s Time Capsule Web page. http://www.apple.com/timecapsule
Microsoft Windows Media Center Web site. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/media-center.aspx
Apple TV. http://www.apple.com/appletv
Photo frames increasingly offer the ability to distribute photos throughout your home and include the ability to display photos, slide shows, video, and music.
Jacobowitz, P. J., and Zach Honig. 2008. “How to Buy a Digital Photo Frame.” PCMag.com (December 12). http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2300977,00.asp
Digital Photo Frames, cnet reviews. http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-picture-frames
Family Genealogy databases, family-tree making, and time lines are available on the Web, e.g., FamilyTreeMaker.
FamilyTreeMaker Web site. http://www.FamilyTreeMaker.com
The top levels of Gordon Bell’s folder hierarchy, circa 2009. While there is no “right” organizing principle, it is a big mistake to not have an organizing principle, or to apply one inconsistently. The full Bell folder hierarchy contains more than 2,000 folders, holding more than 130,000 items. The top division is between active and archive items.
1. My Documents holding active content
a. Administrative and Systems
b. CyberAll aka MyLifeBits Research
i) Papers, patents
ii) Presentations
iii) Project plans
iv) Hardware (eBook, SenseCam, et cetera)
v) Conferences and other papers
vi) Classification, facets, metadata
vii) Database
viii) This book
c. Media-in-the-home research
d. Telepresence research
e. Systems of all kinds, chips to supers
f. Other active company and organizational (companies, government, schools)
g. GB in process books and papers
h. GB family financial and legal
i) CYxx or FYxx: Yearly bank, brokerage, expense, receipt, detailed tax, statements
ii) Investments
iii) Money and historical transactions
iv) Property
1. Real estate (folder per property)
2. A/V, cameras, electronics, phones
3. . . .
v) Start-ups (100+ company folders with business plan, history, ownership