OK, I know it sounds early, considering that I haven’t yet installed or used IT 2006, the new OS for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. I don’t know what it really does or doesn’t do well. But I’ve already started forming my wish list for the next OS release.

My two biggest frustrations with the 770 are fairly personal and one of them is so personal as to be idiosyncratic. But they both deal with the unrealized potential of the 770 for note-taking and organization.

Btw, I don’t want the 770 to be a PIM replacement, though clearly lots of other folk do. Phone numbers, addresses, alarm reminders — I’m happy enough with those functions in my cell phone.

But note taking is a whole ‘nother category.

No one believes tapping into Notes or an editor like AbiWord is fast enough to make notes while you’re thinking or in a meeting. And don’t even mention BT keyboards — I do my best thinking on the twenty-minute walk between work and the train station.

I’ve been exploring use of the GTD system propounded by David Allen in his book Getting Things Done, and despite my highly electronified state, I’m heavily dependent on scribbling things on 3×5 cards. No other way to get so much information down quickly enough.

But I can’t use the handwriting recognition engine in the Nokia 770 because it just doesn’t work. (”Adequate” is a failing grade here.)

The screen resolution of the 770 is 225 pixels per inch — about five times that of the UMPC and most laptops. It’s so high that it seems ideal for actually being able to decipher handwriting and translate scribbles into keystrokes.

I urge Nokia to license the PhatWare HWR engine used in Calligrapher and PenOffice and use it instead of their current feeble software. I really would use Notes then for just what it’s supposed to be, to jot down quick notes.

As for my other wish: Like others, I’m wanting more capability out of Opera. But in my case, giving me a complete desktop Opera 9.0 wouldn’t satisfy me.

That’s because I like to use a TiddlyWiki-based micro-content wiki called MonkeyGTD. (Jeremy Ruston wrote TW, and Simon Baird customized it to MonkeyGTD.) TW and its derivants are single-html-page wikis, whose “tiddlies” correspond to pages in a standard wiki and which typically are short entries rather than the full-blown kinds of things you want and expect from a full page. A TiddlyWiki is meant to be stored locally and is perfect for tracking lots of cross-linked notes. All the programming in TW is done in Javascript.

My problem is that Opera won’t save changes you make within it to an html file, even one stored locally. (A modification lets you do this through Java on a desktop machine with Opera.) So I’m ready for a different browser, and if Nokia doesn’t supply it, I’d like to be able to remove Opera and free up that space for a browser that can do what I need.

Being able to quickly make notes with a viable HWR application and to consult, add to and check off all the things I need to do in a small browser-based GTD application — these are how I’d like to make the 770 work for me. Can we get those in the next go-around, please?