Tweak TealOS for More Prodctivity by Inverted Thinking
Tealpoint's Palm Pre immitation of webOS for the PalmOS platform, called "TealOS", is a nice piece of software and once more a comittment of an long lasting software company to the Palm community.
I am overwhelmed by Tealpoint's update activity, releasing two to three updates per day.
As I have indicated last time, TealOS could be a security issue for those working with password databases and sensitive data in general. Coming back to their update policy, I found a nice workaround and new
implementation within the latest updates on how to handle sensitive data.
Last week, I proposed to exclude security applications such as Secret, Splash ID, etc. from being displayed as cards in order to prevent misuse of sensitive data. But there is more you want to prevent from being captured as card and put on the desktop. Applications, such as Card Reader, Hotsync, file explorers, weather applications, settings,
JVM, Kamera, SMS, Backup applications, tools and utilities are run once for a particular purpose and are not intended to be displayed as card on the desktop. Firstly, every card (screenshot) will take precious RAM and secondly the more cards one have the more it slows down the system.
Why not thinking the other way round?! Instead of excluding 30 applications, why not explicitly alowing just the few of applications to be placed as cards, which you really want to have on the desktop for fast access?
The thing is so easy: Cards should be all of those applications you want to switch between, while working and possibly exchanging data with. These could be the email client and the address book or memo/todo list for copying a particular email address or a note into an email. This also could be an eBook reader or multimedia player, for playback or title change after interruption, etc. Outliners as well as Browsers, Calculators, Note Taker and GTD Tools are adequate candidates to explicitly allow within the card's list.
This is what Tealpoint have implemented within one of the latest beta updates. One can select this by Option\Cards and select "Save cards...only for listed apps" rather than "only for unlisted apps".
Don't waste time, get back to productivity by using right settings in a proper way. This keeps your system slick and fast. It's fun to have rapid access to the most important and recently opened applications, but remember: Think different :)
