karniv0re's Journal: My Life in the Cloud

I am attempting to digitize my life. The goal is to make everything digital, archivable, searchable, and permenant. I would like to keep everything with Google, since they area stable company, and will be around for a long time to come. But they don't provide everything I need. So, in those cases, I use the best option, and back things up where needed. Here's my list so far of everything I have in the Cloud:

• Email - Gmail
• Phone and SMS - Google Voice
• Passwords - Passpack
• Bookmarks - Delicious
• Web History - Google Web History
• Maps - Google Maps
• Calendar - Google Calendar
• Contacts - Note, using the Facebook app for BlackBerry, you can manually go through each of your Facebook contacts and tie them to a BlackBerry contact. Then you can use Google Sync to syncronize them to your Google Contacts list. It's kind of a middle man way of doing it, but it's faster than typing them all out (like I did one night).
  • Gmail
  • Google Sync
  • Facebook for BlackBerry
• Finances - Mint
  One problem here has been getting Mint to work with my small hometown bank. As soon as this is resolved, I will be a happy camper.
• Photos - There are a couple of challenges with storing my photos online.
  1. A lot of them are porn.
  2. A lot of them are just personal and I don't want stored online.

  To deal with this, I have a couple of things:

  • Flickr
    Flickr will backup my BlackBerry photos. I like this option because there is a Flickr app for BB, and it stores them as the original size.
  • Picasa
    Picasa will organize everything on my harddrive. That will work for my porn and personal pictures.
• BlackBerry Instant Messenger -
  The new BBIM allows you to email whole chats, with the subject already in place. Setting up a filter on your Gmail will let you skip the inbox and archive these, and tag them with BBIM, giving you quick access to your old BBIM chats. Although not automated, it's a fairly quick process.
• Documents - There a couple forms of docs I want to keep. Those that are already digital, and those in hard copy form.
  • Google Docs
    This will take care of the already-digital docs
  • Pixily
    Pixily will take my hard copy documents and scan them into searchable PDFs. These will be downloaded and backed up.
• Chat - Google Talk - Saves all conversations (that are not off the record)
• Books
  • Google Books
    This will let me search all my books.
  • Zoho - Zoho - I have all the books I own in a Zoho database. This might need to change though.
• ToDo lists - Remember The Milk - With a BlackBerry sync tool, I am always on top of my ToDo lists.

There are a few things missing from this list. I will try to fill them in as I can.