While beginning the Great Apartment Cleanup that is one of my main goals this weekend, I found and revived my old Handspring Visor Neo. I picked it up back in my grad student days, and have come back to it every now and again, but I never stick with it for long.
One reason for my fickleness in this regard, I think, is that the device is fundamentally designed for right-handed people. Which isn’t to say that it’s impossible for lefties to use, of course. But I write with a bit of a hook
, as do many other left-handers I know, and this contortion means that when I’m scratching away with Graffiti (which I was surprised and pleased to discover I remembered), I can’t see most of the screen. Since I’m also enough of a microklutz to make the actual scribing of Graffiti a somewhat error-prone endeavour, this is suboptimal.
(Oh, microklutz
? A klutz in the small, clumsy with regards to detailed work with one’s hands. Contrast with macroklutz
, one who is clumsy in grosser motions of the body: walking, catching balls, etc. I’m more of a micro- than a macroklutz, although I partake of both.)
On the other hand, it’s sort of handy to have around, particularly now that I have a computer where I keep things like an address-book and a calendar. The iSync-Palm conduit works wonderfully well; my only complaint is that it doesn’t transfer over everything from my Addressbook records; I get phone numbers and addresses, but miss details like birthdays and the like.