If you use your mobile phone a lot – and I mean a lot – then you know that keeping track of calls, texts and the like can be a nightmare. Galloping to the rescue to help you keep your mobile life tidy and co-ordinated comes MobileArchiver, currently only available for Windows Mobile devices but Symbian and Blackberry options will be released in February and I for one cannot wait to give this resource a test drive.
After you sign up and link your phone to MobileArchiver through a small downloaded program, the system starts monitoring your phone activities. On accessing the website you are them presented with a dashboard that presents a summary of what you have been up to in an eye-pleasing, easy to view view with summaries of your projects, calls and texts.
Navigation to other modules is by top tabs and the first is contacts which lists all your contacts and how long you have been talking to them, the total number of calls to each and a text to each summary. Next along is the texts module and a record of all incoming and outgoing texts is shown and you can view them as outgoing, incoming or altogether, useful if you have an ongoing text conversation and you need to recap on what you and the other party have said. All texts are archived so if you delete them off your phone they still exist on the MobileArchiver system.
Next is Calls and, as you would expect, there is a complete list of calls to individuals along with date, duration and a sort of aide memoire which I cannot yet figure out how this is included as I haven’t run the service in real life. Taking a wild guess I’d assume that these are added on the web site after the call is made or that the downloaded software prompts you for a title. Both the text and the calls modules have a button that allows you to export the data to a CSV file for exporting into whatever system you want to use for maintaining a separate copy of your phone activities.
Probably one of the most useful facilities is to establish a list of projects and allocate calls and text activities to whatever you want. The service is rounded up by a reports facility that allows you to generate a report by project or an individual across datelines.
I cannot wait to test this service in real time and I suspect it will get a Mutt’s Nuts* award for the use it has of sorting out all activities undertaken on your phone.
*Mutt’s Nuts is a derivative of Dog’s Bollocks, a quaint English term that is applied to anything that is truly excellent.
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