Android questions

[Tom Buskey]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> I currently have a Blackberry and will be moving to the Motorola
> Backflip shortly. The only issue I have is that I have over 400 entries
> in my Blackberry Memo Pad (currently synced with Outlook notes). There
> are a number of ways that I can extract my memos from the Blackberry.
> One objective is to be able to access the memo pad from Linux, which is
> something I can't do with the Blackberry.
> There is a program called ABC Amber that can take a Blackberry .ipd file
> and convert it to several formats, including text, pdf, html, and other
> formats. I do have some passwords stored there, but they will eventually
> go into KeepPass.
>
>
I've been using KeePassX.  There is a Blackberry version which is a Java
app.  I bet there's an Android version.



> There are many apps on Android that are similar to Blackberry's Memo
> Pad. One program that would work fine is Evernotes, but I don't think
> that I can access the Evernotes data directly from Linux, and I also
> don't want to be locked into a single app. So the issue is going from
> either the Blackberry or Windows Outlook Notes to the Android without
> having to do a lot of work. Evernotes will work fine because it works
> with Windows, Blackberry and Android, but AFAIK, not directly on Linux
> platforms (though theoretically it might).
>
> So far, Evernote appears to be the best option because I can keep a copy
> on Windows (work), Android, and on the web, so I can access the data
> from my Linux system. So, what I'm really asking is to see what other
> Android owners have done, primarily with Blackberry or Palm memo pads.
>
> Isn't there a web version of Evernote?  There's always Google Docs too.
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