Stu Downes - Latest Comments

Re: My Personal Knowledge Management Systems : Evernote, Instapaper and OneNote

Ian Turner — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 03:13:18 -0000

thanks Stu, I wasn't worried about the corporate side of things it was more personal data and the risks of linking quite a lot of these applications together. I've been setting some of these up and you seem to create lots of "trusts" and shared authentication schemes.

I've been using lastpass for about 12 months - I really like that for managing the mass of credentials I seem to have acquired on dozens of websites... but I still have a nagging doubt which has made me hold off on storing any of my finance/banking applications.

I do wonder if there's a case for everyone getting an "allowance" for personal productivity software - seems to be in keeping with the outside in approach.

keep posting the blog by the way - found some interesting bits of information on here, previously I was a bit of a ludite in that respect and I'm slowly beginning to change my view ;-)

Re: My Personal Knowledge Management Systems : Evernote, Instapaper and OneNote

Stu Downes — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:58:11 -0000

Hi Ian,

1) I pay for my personal knowledge stuff myself. Instapaper, Feedly, Evernote, OneDrive (for OneNote storage). I'd rather it that way as its my system.
2) I'm not aware of any CSC licences.
3) On security .... I don't store corporate information here. I am concious of my own security so rely on Evernote and Microsoft for their embedded security.

Re: My Personal Knowledge Management Systems : Evernote, Instapaper and OneNote

Ian Turner — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:09:46 -0000

interesting post this Stu, I followed a link from Max to this.

It covers an area that I'd been trying to get my head around recently and puts some formality into thinking about what many of us see as informal tooling that we may have signed up for (or not as the case maybe). The latest townhalls and comms are making extensive use of twitter/crowdchat/youtube/googleplus and in order to join in effectively I realised I needed to start creating and linking various services together.

I've a raft of questions that this post has triggered and its made me start to look at some of the tools you've identified in order to answer some of those. There's a plethora of new apps that I'd no idea even existed and I need to spend time trying them out.

A couple of questions I'd be interested in your thoughts on:

1) have you subscribed to any of the paid options for these tools or are you using the "free" versions. If so:
which are good value/worth it and why?
have you managed to get CSC to pay for them or are we now entering an era of BYOSoftware?

2) are you aware of any corporate licenses for some of these tools?

3) what are your thoughts on the security implications - I assume the data you are storing is in the cloud somewhere?

And an observation, to bring this to life for an old timer like me I'd like to see kind of process to application mapping table.

thanks for the posting - 12 months late but its certainly generated a lot grey matter activity for me.

Re: The Hybrid PC Evolution – my observation and experience

Thomas V — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:07:42 -0000

Mr. Downes, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad 10 myself but I have been using a X1 Carbon as my primary device. I think with your experience from this article I'm going to make the switch to the TP10 as primary and see how it goes for me.

Re: My Personal Knowledge Management Systems : Evernote, Instapaper and OneNote

Oliver Bildesheim @bildesheim — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:32:27 -0000

Nice! Here you find an overview of the tools i use to get the things done. :-) http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: User Experience Fragmentation

grahamchastney — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:39:12 -0000

Nice post Stu.

On a similar track, I've been toying with the idea of productivity, and what it will mean in the future: http://grahamchastney.com/2...

Re: Health update, I’ve been offline for a few weeks

Carl Williams — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:30:52 -0000

Hope to see you back soon buddy. Good blog by the way.

Re: Health update, I’ve been offline for a few weeks

Phil G — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:27:01 -0000

I didn't realize you had such as situation going on until I opened up Facebook and found this update. I hope you are on the mend and feeling better. I look forward to your future writings - you write about interesting ideas, put them in new light and communicate well.

Re: Health update, I’ve been offline for a few weeks

Charlie Hope — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:46:30 -0000

Sorry to hear you've been so poorly... get well soon.

Re: Health update, I’ve been offline for a few weeks

Nattie McNutterton — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:29:33 -0000

Hurry up Stu - don't make Bob go it alone!!

Re: Health update, I’ve been offline for a few weeks

Michael Sampson — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:54:49 -0000

Get well soon Stu. Sorry to hear you have been unwell.

Re: Thinking about improving the Workplace?

Stu Downes — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:59:14 -0000

it's great to see a full assessment included real outcome based measures!

Re: Thinking about improving the Workplace?

grahamchastney — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:03:59 -0000

Some local research, on schools this time:

http://www.wired.com/wireds...

Re: Desktop versus Tablet versus Frames ….. or is it a blend?

Stu Downes — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:28:06 -0000

Firstly apologies for the really slow response. The report is a Forrester report:

Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape – A BT Futures Report

We'll Use Tablets As The Conductor For PCs, Devices, And Personal Cloud Services At Work And At Home
by Frank E. Gillett

Re: Desktop versus Tablet versus Frames ….. or is it a blend?

Streetsenz — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:49:16 -0000

Where is the report on "frames?"

Re: Desktop versus Tablet versus Frames ….. or is it a blend?

Charlie Hope — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:47:12 -0000

Indeed I was impressed at Atrix as it managed the best delivered package of the concept to date? Agree on the need for the standards.

Re: Desktop versus Tablet versus Frames ….. or is it a blend?

Stu Downes — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:34:50 -0000

We have started to see it in reality, the first real device of this nature was the Motorola Atrix and we are now starting to see more tablets which will drive larger displays and have an interface with screens, keyboards and mouse. The concept of Frames will need industry standards so that you know when you turn up at the library, school, hotel or tourist information centre that the device you have will be compatible with the frame you want to use.

Re: Desktop versus Tablet versus Frames ….. or is it a blend?

Charlie Hope — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:23:31 -0000

I like the idea of "frames" too, I'm guessing many folks have been thinking along that line for while, but not had common category to describe those concepts, perhaps "frames" will stick.

Good to see you back blogging.

Re: Drinking from a hose pipe

Tosh — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:41:06 -0000

nice one - thanks...

Re: Drinking from a hose pipe

Stu Downes — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:55:24 -0000

Tosh, I use InstaReader which uses the starred items rss feed from Google Reader

http://mediastech.com/Insta...

Delete

Stu

Re: Drinking from a hose pipe

Tosh — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:19:24 -0000

Good post - one thing - what's the tool for auto importing Google Reader starred items into Instapaper?

Re: Using the full power of presentations to win

S. Quevillon — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:53:51 -0000

I wish it was available for the Kindle...

Re: Using the full power of presentations to win

speakingppt — Sun, 15 May 2011 12:32:00 -0000

Thanks for the review Stu!

Re: I’m testing a new comment mechanism on the blog…

Stu Downes — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:15:58 -0000

Will let you know, good to see it supports email replies to your comment for when travelling, just gotta make sure I reply with the correct post in context!

Re: I’m testing a new comment mechanism on the blog…

grahamchastney — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:26:08 -0000

Umm DISQUS, I'm not sure either, which is why I've never gone there. Would be interesting to know how you get on though.