Funny how this is the latest research findings. It seems so obvious. I guess we all are so distracted, numb and unconscious we don't even know ourselves anymore.
For me, I've been using Basecamp for practically everything. It's so useful and reliable, and the mobile site has the best most functional interface I've ever used.
The problem with these (and all the other alternatives I've seen in this post so far) is that they ignore the one thing that locks people into Evernote despite the bugs, poor interface etc: scanner-support and OCR. Sure, if you have your information in digital form already, there's a bunch of decent solutions, but in terms of killing the paper mountain I am not aware of anything that supports that workflow, certainly not that easily.
The Evernote app for BlackBerry 10 has never synced without producing an error. This wouldn't bother me so much if I wasn't a Premium member.
I'm open to switching to an Evernote alternative, provided this alternative has an Android app. Android apps are becoming as easy to install on BlackBerry 10 as native BlackBerry apps.
I just reinstalled the app, and it will take awhile before everything is synced again - that is if the app version was the source of the problem. I'm running the leaked OS 10.2.1.1925 for the Z30, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. The OS has been rock solid.
The BlackBerry Q10[1] is the most unique smartphone on the market due to it's touch display and physical keyboard. And although I'm now rocking a Z30, the Q10 is still probably my favorite.
BJ Fogg's 1, 2, 3 step is known as "anchoring", and I agree it can be effective in establishing new habits, especially when there is emotional buy-in beforehand. It's actually an old NLP / hypnosis fix.
Weeding out any friction points while establishing the habit is also important (in my book INDOCTRINATOR, I call it the "secret ceremony").
INDOCTRINATOR isn't finished yet, but it's available at Leanpub for anyone interested: http://indoctrinator.com
I remember reading a story in Analog science fiction about just this scenario: inexpensive, multi purpose robots (and the riots they caused when people realized they could be replaced).
The solution? Have each robot owned by one, and only one, human being, who could lease out the robot's "labor" as they wished.
I doubt that solution is possible, but I do think the issues the story raised are going to be, as you put it, "the biggest story" of the near future.
I love that story--the contrast between the US and Australia illustrates the fact that it really is a political choice how to spend fantastic wealth that automation gives us. (It's not only a political choice, there are moral components as well.)
You didn't. It's just the usual exponential growth finally produced enough computing power that formerly nearly-impossible things have become tantalizingly practical.
EDIT: I'm pointing the finger at myself as well.