I’ve been trying to get all my communications into one place for a long time now, and went out and hacked all that could be hacked to get this. So, I tried:
- Talk only of GTalk – this way I was able to get all my conversations into the gmail inbox. Well, this normally does not work out due to human inertia. Of the people I frequently talk to too few actually use GTalk…
- Use multiple transports (jabber feature). Well theory is nice, but practice proves to be different. All the tutorials and free servers out there that you can register with in order to get yahoo or msn transports in GTalk – well they work for one week (all of them) “its by design” i guess
- Use Pidgin all over the place – office desktop, home laptop, home desktop any other mobile gadget I have around. Uhmmm – it works, it logs everything in plain text, but then how do I synch this different places? Well, I use Dropbox. This works nice, it’s ok – I can even access them online, but they are not in the same place with the emails, and i can not search them online (locally grep does wonders).
- Skype? well just forget getting the logs out of Skype in a human readable form and sync-ing these over multiple machines – I gave it up.
- SMS – that’s too out there. Can’t even envision doing that today.
Now I’m at a loss – I’ll stop IM-ing and just tell people to mail me. Or I can spend endless hours coding up my own hammer that will knock out every nail, or I can wait for Google Wave maybe? Looks like it’s the hammer I could use for all these nails!
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