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CRIMPing in the future.
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Posted by Foolness
Sep 10, 2017 at 08:31 AM
The difference maker would be multi-purpose software and whoever is smart enough to develop that at the right time when the technology is there.
Right now the tablets are still expensive counterparts to laptops which are expensive counterparts to the desktop utility wise. Obviously this is not an accurate analogy in terms of actual usage but in terms of a metaphor for what CRIMPing can be habitually done based on the potential of each hardware then I believe it’s close to accurate.
What I mean by this is that right now CRIMPing is stuck in the old cellphone model where multipurpose equals music, mini-games and small things tacked on to distract from it being a phone. The smartphone changed that and apps made up for the phone services being now much more complicated to look at but still a multipurpose distraction to a laptop or desktop.
This in-between stage is where CRIMPing in the future is currently at. It’s still in a primitive stage of importing over micro-distraction apps with a few killer apps. In the future, it will be much closer to true multipurpose software.
An example of this would be the implementation of a meditation PIM. You can modify the OS entirely for a task rather than opening up an app. This OS can be swiped with a specific calendar that would schedule a specific set of guided meditations that would auto-set the calendar to machine learn your free time habits that would auto-play relaxing music whenever you open up an editor that would auto-shutdown the OS “app” when you say sleep while holding the close button on any particular software as every button can be a talk button and you can swipe this OS away like a youtube video in a youtube app and switch to another recommended OS.
OS to OS sharing will be the first key evolution as you will do the equivalent of picking a Linux distro for cooking, kid’s profile viewing, programming in a non-distraction environment, writing in an academic setting versus a novel setting, etc. etc. etc.
Browsers in turn would be less like browsers and more like hubs for personal database. Online bookmarks can do offline clippings without the need for a separate Evernote app. Search would not only be voice activated but OS integrated. Example would be “Firefox open OutlinerSoftware.com besides split tab Google.com”.
Most radical would be how the smartphone would become a sort of advanced clicker for the laptop/desktop/tablet. Instead of remote viewing you will have remote controls that can send one Google Keep audio note to another account within a preset range. VPNs would be more advanced than current versions to combat trolls obviously. Smartphones can voice control on apps that don’t support the feature or aren’t made by the same developer. Locked passwords would be replaced by a smartphone security feature. Bits and pieces of information that can be stored within a disk drive connected to a PC/Mac would finally made into fruition the HDD with a large screen idea that tablets were meant to replace.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 10, 2017 at 08:57 AM
I agree with jaslar and Paul on this - CRIMPing is a state of mind, and the outward structures or interfaces don’t actually change that state of mind; bring it on Minority Report, I say.
I’m sorry Dellu has had such issues with syncing between Mac and iOS. While I think it’s still not as great as it should be, I happily transfer significant amounts of information between both platforms using a variety of apps, and really don’t come up against the kinds of problems that people (including me) used to swear about as recently as a couple of years ago. Things have improved! All the Apple apps sync instantly. Bear, Outlinely, Ulysses sync instantly. DEVONthink and Together sync instantly. Readdle Documents syncs instantly. AutoTask (our business equivalent of Dropbox) syncs instantly, as does Dropbox. I don’t use Bookends, so can’t comment, but much will depend on whether developers are using the latest Apple CloudKit (or whatever they’re calling it nowadays).
iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra are looking very promising, too, and should transform the whole iOS scene. However, I’m afraid one may have to invest in an iPad Pro to gain maximum benefit. Which is irritating - my wife recently got a brand new iPad (one of the standard “nameless” consumer models) and the price-performance ratio is very impressive. She uses it all the time! I’ll be interested to see which iOS 11 features it does/doesn’t support.
But I’m fascinated to hear about Dr Andus’s clearly very successful experience with Chrome and Android. On the other hand, I have much the same (albeit undoubtedly more expensive) experience on Macs/iOS devices, so it’s horses for courses, I suppose.
Talking of which, I wonder if anybody’s acquired one of the latest Logitech mice? The ones that allow you to swipe across multiple computer screens (on multiple platforms)? That has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dellu
Sep 10, 2017 at 11:30 AM
>Bear, Outlinely, Ulysses sync instantly. DEVONthink and Together sync instantly. Readdle Documents syncs instantly. AutoTask (our business equivalent of Dropbox) syncs instantly, as does Dropbox.
My frustration is mostly on Pdf files; as they grow large.
For small, text files, I agree with you, everything seems to work fine.
Readdl’s Document (PDF expert pro): that is one of the apps I have tried and tried for many years. It works so far as the documents are within 4000 range. Beyond that, it wobbles; cries and fails. Searching becomes almost impossible.
I am not also very satisfied with the Devonthink’s syncing capability. My experience is the same. they work great so far as the data is smaller in size. As it grows larger, they break down.
One promising technology I have been thinking about latesly is the USB-C. One can store all the files in one USB-C external drive and plug them on any phone and computer as he/she moves around. that could work at least for bare files like PDF files and the like. Another advantage of this system is its Internet independence. My another issue with these systems, is that they all fall apart if you unplug your network.
Internet is a huge destruction. I sometimes want to go to monkmode (new Carlport calls this “Deep work”)—-disconnect all my Internet and work on my writing.
The cloud is no more functional. USB-c can still function, for example, if I like reading on the ipad (android tablet) and writing on the mac.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 10, 2017 at 12:03 PM
I think the DEVONthink folks intently wanted to avoid iCloud sync, which was far more unreliable at the time, and their “database” structure was too fragile to directly store in clouds—especially Dropbox which rips DEVONthink databases to pieces without warning. So they invented a sui generis sync method that has literally taken years to perfect. And, as Dellu explains, it’s far from perfect. (FWIW, I always sync DEVONthink to DTTG while my devices are on my own network, and never on someone else’s network.)
But I don’t think anyone’s sync technology is up the the heavy demands of researchers and other users who need a lot of data moving back and forth between devices and the cloud. There are too many points of failure. Unless you are in your own physical domain with a network you built, the quality and capacity of the network infrastructure you are operating on at any given time is not transparent and is beyond one’s average understanding and control.
So we cannot yet shove anything we want around any network anywhere. Dellu’s situation is a case in point. And that’s why there’s no *real* ubiquitous computing yet. With respect, what I am envisioning is not what Dr Andrus points out as existing today—I think of what he discusses as being more of a proof-of-concept than a product end state. It will get better—due to society’s insatiable demand for data, feature and function.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 10, 2017 at 12:21 PM
I’d have to agree with Dellu about very large quantities of data (that’s why we use AutoTask, which has a very efficient Cloud repository); I too have been toying with the idea of iOS-optimised USB sticks. There are some good ones around nowadays - a far cry from the basic SanDisk WiFi 32GB microserver I still have somewhere around. For large quantities of data, I think they’re a good option.