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In recent weeks I have become a huge fan of 37signals’ Backpack. Backpack is hard to describe.
It is an electronic organizer, a group calendar, a to-do list keep and reminder, an idea drop-box, file-storage, brainstormer, internal messenger and a whole lot more.
Lifehacker put it this way in January—
If getting your shi*t together is high on your resolution list and you live online, Backpack - a free-form notes, to-do and calendar webapp - is the place to do it. Backpack is slick and useful for organizing your 4th of July barbecue or stowing away research for your next car purchase.
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it’s all the fun of a wiki without any of the learning curve plus todo-lists, reminders, file storage and mobile access all rolled into one.
I came to Backpack to solve a specific work issue/need but am finding it to be an incredibly powerful and useful web-based application. I now use it to communicate with my colleagues and reduce the amount of “telephone” we play when information is incorrectly transmitted. I use it to collect pictures, manage a to do list, store files and documents for easy access anywhere anytime. I used it to collect ideas, information, slides and random thoughts as I prepared a talk I gave at a conference last week. Best of all, it is not only powerful but it is easy to use. In fact, it is the first time I pushed my colleagues toward a new technology that they did not initially curse me about.
The problem is- while Backpack’s pages are fully accessible from an iPhone or iPod Touch they are a bit too difficult to manipulate easily.
Fortunately, some incredibly smart folks have created some amazing “add-ons” that make Backpack one of the most iPhone-friendly and powerful applications around.
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