[pct-l] Trail Journal electronics

[Postholer]

Hey Bill,

Electronically, you have basically 2 ways of transcribing journal entrys:
+ EMail (such as Pocketmail or email enabled device)
+ Mobile Internet Access (a 'smartphone' device)

I urge you to view 'Gadget's Gadget Guide' for an excellent smartphone 
guide:
http://postholer.com/smartPhone.html

Gadget has maintained his 2008 journal entirely through his mobile internet 
device, via 'Postholer Mobile':
Gadget's journal is: http://postholer.com/brianle
Postholer Mobile is: http://postholer.com/mobi

Pocketmail allows you to transcibe emails, then send them at a later date 
over a regular telephone. If you keep a journal at postholer.com you can 
email your entrys straight into your journal, no human transcriber required. 
Any other service like blogger or TJ's will require someone to post your 
emails to your journal.

An internet enabled smartphone gives you many more options having the entire 
internet at your disposal. Yes, cell reception is spotty, but far more 
frequent than a telephone. If you'll be carrying a cell phone you can 
possibly consolidate your pocketmail/cell phone into a smart phone.

To further shamelessly plug postholer.com, you can update your journal, get 
7 day text weather forecast all along the trail and search/read other 
journals for valuable info from postholer mobile. Of course you have access 
to the non-mobile site as well being you have full internet access. This 
means you can access postholer maps, which is a great use for getting around 
in those town stops (don't use for trail navigation , though).

Hope that helps,
-postholer

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Trails : http://Postholer.Com
Journals : http://Postholer.Com/journal
Mobile : http://Postholer.Com/mobi