Can I really get some work done with my iPhone alone?

So I was going to meet a client at a train station, and I was about 15 minutes early. Listening to the latest MacBreak Weekly Podcast, I decided to see if I could get some work done on my iPhone.

Consolidating notes

Notes is one of my favorite apps on the iPhone. It loads fast, and serves as an easy way to record my thoughts. Usually I end up with a long list of memos, and back at home, I get the notes off the iPhone, and organize them.

Now, armed with copy and paste with the 3.0 update, I tried for the first time to organize my memos on iPhone. And sure enough, it worked. I could copy and paste text and group the memos together in the same area easily. Obviously, I'd be much proficient on a computer, but this is not bad, and actually doable. And there's something about copying and pasting. It's kind of fun.

Organizing and processing my email

My mail accounts on the iPhone use IMAP and my folder structure is simple. So organizing mail can be easily done with iPhone. The only part I wish the iPhone had was the ability to "Organize by thread", a feature I can't live without on the Mail app on the Mac.

Bookmarking files with Delicious

Sometimes emails carry links that I want to bookmark on Delicious. This was the task I had problems with.

So here's how it works on my computer. On my Bookmarks Bar, I have a Delicious Bookmarklet link. So when I see a page I want to bookmark, I just click on this Bookmarklet, and it would bring me Delicious where I can bookmark the page I'm looking at. (More info about bookmarklets on Delicious here.)

On the iPhone, I tried to do the same thing. It works, except the Delicious page where I choose what tags to go with my bookmarks was rather clumsy on the iPhone browser.

This could be easily fixed though if Delicious optimizes their page for the iPhone, or Apple improves their browsers. For now, bookmarking to the iPhone isn't very smooth yet. Hope this gets fixed.

Tasks I was able to do with my iPhone

So within the 15 minutes wait, I realized I can do two work-related things:

1. organize my memos
2. organize my emails

Pretty nice.