Exanotes: Secure Note-taking for Smartphones

I'm pretty happy with my Palm Pre but one of its shortcomings is in
the Memos app. While it's a nice looking app, it is too simple,
lacking such classic PalmOS amenities as Categories or List View.
Worse yet, unlike the Pre's Contacts and Calendar, Memos doesn't sync
to anything. They are trapped on the Pre.

While I was able to import all of my old PalmOS memos into the Classic
PalmOS emulator, again I have a situation where my memos are trapped
because Classic cannot (yet) sync to anything. And since Classic
cannot exchange cut and paste data with normal webOS apps, my memos
are in a sense doubly trapped.

Today I stumbled on to an interesting web-app. Exanotes is a web-based
note-taking service. While it does offer a clean, simple interface
what stood out for me is the fact that the service it uses 256-bit AES
encryption. Good encryption is one of the things that have been sorely
by "Cloud Computing" applications and may assuage the fears of people
who are worried about putting their data into the hands of a
third-party website.

http://examancer.com/exanotes/

The author of the web service has stated that he wants to create webOS
app which syncs with the web service in the background. This would
eliminate the need for a desktop client as any computer with a browser
can be the desktop client for a user of this service and it will still
be protected by the user's password (just don't click on the "Remember
Me" check box if you are somebody else's computer).

Exanote might be worth checking out for people thinking of moving from
a PDA to a smartphone.
--
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rebel, fighting the establishment" like an Aibo on
a skateboard.
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Roberto Castillo
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http://mind-grapes.blogspot.com/
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Exanotes looks interesting - but a little weird! I'm not sure I like
that a password cannot be recovered. And when you set up an account,
it does not even ask for you to retype your password, nor show it as
you type (because there is no real account creation process - you just
login). And it's interesting that it warns you when changing your
password, that if you use a new password that someone else with the
SAME id uses (which is allowed), then the notes will be merged ...

Lots of choices - none of them perfect! I wish I could just stay with
my Treo 755p - but I know that's a dead end.

Dan

On Jul 13, 8:40 pm, Zombie Elvis
<DELETEMETOREPLYrobertocasti....DeleteThis@ameritech.net> wrote:
> I'm pretty happy with my Palm Pre but one of its shortcomings is in
> the Memos app. While it's a nice looking app, it is too simple,
> lacking such classic PalmOS amenities as Categories or List View.
> Worse yet, unlike the Pre's Contacts and Calendar, Memos doesn't sync
> to anything. They are trapped on the Pre.
>
> While I was able to import all of my old PalmOS memos into the Classic
> PalmOS emulator, again I have a situation where my memos are trapped
> because Classic cannot (yet) sync to anything. And since Classic
> cannot exchange cut and paste data with normal webOS apps, my memos
> are in a sense doubly trapped.
>
> Today I stumbled on to an interesting web-app. Exanotes is a web-based
> note-taking service. While it does offer a clean, simple interface
> what stood out for me is the fact that the service it uses 256-bit AES
> encryption. Good encryption is one of the things that have been sorely
> by "Cloud Computing" applications and may assuage the fears of people
> who are worried about putting their data into the hands of a
> third-party website.
>
> http://examancer.com/exanotes/
>
> The author of the web service has stated that he wants to create webOS
> app which syncs with the web service in the background. This would
> eliminate the need for a desktop client as any computer with a browser
> can be the desktop client for a user of this service and it will still
> be protected by the user's password (just don't click on the "Remember
> Me" check box if you are somebody else's computer).
>
> Exanote might be worth checking out for people thinking of moving from
> a PDA to a smartphone.
> --
> Cause, really, nothing says "I'm a counter culture
> rebel, fighting the establishment" like an Aibo on
> a skateboard.
>       - Seen on Slashdot
>
> Roberto Castillo
> robertocasti....DeleteThis@ameritech.nethttp://mind-grapes.blogspot.com/http://zombie-gulch.myminicity.com/