New OGO: my thoughts

Dustin Hollis (dhollis@cisco.com)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:50:32 -0700

I just picked up the ogo two days ago (I went to Fry's with the
intention of buying the Pilot, but was soon entranced with the ogo, since it
seems so much better.....), and have had a strange and wondrous time playing
with it:
While attempting to write in phonebook info, I was playing with
Graffiti. The shifts to punctuation is kind of a pain (dashes and dots being
rather common in addresses), and half the time I end up writing something
else when switching to different "typres (like text, special chracters,
punctuation, numbers). I can see it will take some time before I can write
faster than hunt n' peck on the keyboard. I like the idea, though.
I wish I could delete some apps on the ogo, like the demo,
stopwatch, and solitaire, finance (since I'm getting pocket Quicken)...and
get more room for it (wishful, ain't it?)

I wanted to pick up the ogo with the purpose of using it as:
1) a time organizer
2) a money manager (getting that free pocket Quicken, now...though
I think it's a bit of a pain that you have to buy Quicken for the pc AND a
$30 "connection suite" to connect...ah well)
3) a neat way to get all those sticky notes & doodles in one place
4) phonebook
5) place for storing notes, small documents, and router configs.
(as soon as I load in a text editor!)

So far it can do all of those things wonderfully, though tonight
I'm going to try to hookup my pc to the ogo for the first time and play with
some of those nifty programs I've dowloaded from "out there"-- thank god for
all the ogo web pages and rabid fans! I think one of the things that makes
me excited about having an ogo is all the people that are doing things for it.
I'm probably going to pick up a copy of Bindery soon (unless
someone is willing to sell it for cheap!) and go wild creating "books" for
the ogo: I think it's a fascinating feature, and hope to see more titles out
soon...

Dustin