The holy grail of over-connected, excessively web surfing, data drowning knowledge workers like me is some sort of vast, self-synchronizing, ubiquitious data management app that would let me get access to any phone number, email address, calandar entry, to-do item, bookmark etc. from anywhere.
Lately, I’ve been adding apps to a nifty Ultra II SD Plus card by Sandisk that has a built-in, fold-down USB port. I can connect to almost any desktop or laptop computer and run my own programs and access my data while keeping it private. Synch isn’t there yet and I don’t have all the programs I want available cross-platform.
So no surprise that I was intrigued when I read on Liam Breck’s Web 2.5 blog about indi, a project that is creating some kind of app that runs off of a USB drive on Mac or Windows computers that organizes the kind of data I need organized and throws in other things like instant messaging too. I say “some kind” because indi is in beta and I can’t quite tell exactly what it is. Check out this screen shot and this diagram.
Of course, you can only get into the indi beta if someone already in invites you. Any cool kids out there wanna send me an invite?