Digitize your life

Everyday I try to organize my life using mix of paper and electronic means. Sometimes workflow between different areas is seamless, but in most cases I finish up with nothing more that little scrap of papers and information bits. All data is scattered across dispersed information islands. I have to be very fast to visit them all.

Have you heard about MyLifeBits project? It's based on an MEMEX idea of ubiquitous personal information storage. It may include pictures of what you are seeing, sound you are hearing, coordinates of your current position, trail for your electronic activity like emails, phone logs etc. All data is interconnected, tagged and ready for text searching. It's compelling idea but more important are practical applications. The whole stored information may be used as a kind of human memory extension. For successful usage I think it's needed to invent more powerful tools helping seamlessly storing and automatically retrieving important for as bits of information.

Drawing of Bush's theoretical Memex machine (Life Magazine, November 19, 1945),
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I need now only small part of that information, and probably make simple home brew personal information workflow system using pack of separate gadgets like cellphone with camera with GPS and some software. What is it for? I'm not sure yet, but maybe it's worth to try something like that to use it in future. And again another question - what today information will be worth in future after next 10 years?

I'm going back to figure out how to connect online calendar software with one on my cellphone.