Carpe Datum

Simple But Very Cool

I was messing around with various menus on my Ipod the other day, and in the Extras menu is a thing called "Notes". The little instructions said it is an editable file. Sure enough, if I mount the Ipod and double-click on its little icon, I see three folders: Calendars, Contacts and Notes.

Opening the notes folder, I find that I can create text files in there, and they show up under that menu on my Ipod. I can dump whatever text I want in there. Too bad I can't insert little images, but oh well. It works great as little crib sheet that I can scroll through with the click wheel, especially when it is dark because of the lit screen. I used it tonight for a presentation, making a list of everything I wanted to talk about, and it was perfect, even a useful little light source when I needed it.

I'm going to have to dump our little address book contacts into my Ipod for sure. I never thought to use it as a sort of PDA, but it makes sense.