Whitelines link

Look what I picked up today! I saw on Whitelines' facebook page that you could get a free sample pad of Whitelines link if you registered through the app Freebee and went to the Bokia bookstore and showed the digital coupon (it might only be available in Sweden, I haven't checked that). So I did! And here it is:

Whitelines link is a special adaptation of the Whitelines' paper that makes it possible to scan what you've written or drawn on a sheet of Whitelines link paper using an app (available in the AppStore). You can decide if the resulting image should be sent by email, to Evernote or Dropbox by checking one or more of the boxes at the bottom of each page.

The app seems to align the sheet by using the special corners, shown below. 

The sheets are A5 after they have been removed, the perforation is where it should be :-) I will add some of these A5s to my Roxy and will tell you what I think when I've used it for a while.

the Holy Grail of organisation

I had a lovely vision this morning.

Imagine me sitting down, at home on a Sunday like this. Going through my gtd inbox (=random notes and scribbles) in my filofax, Roxy, and updating my action lists. At some point I add an appointment to my calendar, and I know it should be added to my husbands calendar, too. Now I would like it to be magically, or atleast with minimal effort, sent to him!

I don't want to have to write a separate note and remember to give it to him later, start up the computer to write an email or text or call him. It should be extremely quick and also fit his style of organisation. He uses a moleskine diary, spends several hours a day in front of computers and has his Android with him most of the time. 

I'm not psychic, so I can't make the thoughts and info appear in his mind, so I suppose I have to stay within what is physically and technologically possible. Speech, notes on paper and digital representations will have to do!

What I do today is usually just hand him the original inbox note with some extra info on what's been decided and let him process it any way he likes. It's a good system. The drawback is I have to remember to give it to him (it's actually an action item in itself!) and when he's out of the country on work they tend to pile up here. Some of them need to be acted upon before he comes back.

Technology is getting there, I suppose. Just look at the Evernote Moleskine initiative (the price of the notebook is, well, crazy) and the Whitelines link app and paper. Whitelines allow you to download the paper as pdf for free which allows for (or at least inspires) all sorts of attempts at adaptation and tweaking - yay!

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to capture what's handwritten on a page in your filofax (or any other piece of paper for that matter) and with a click or two on your smartphone have the relevant information sent to whomever it should reach? I would love an app like this! The computer scientist in me will have to give this some serious thought... :-)

Magically (digitally) sharing my handwritten paper-based calendar items and actions with other people in the appropriate format at the right time. 

This is my Holy Grail of organisation, what's yours?