Connected Data Transporter: Secure Online-Accessible File Storage | Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog
Speaking of cool devices, here’s one introduced by Paperless guru Brooks Duncan over at his Documentsnap.com blog: it’s the Terminator, no the Enterprise, no the Transporter:
It is a hardware device that you plug in to your router, and it gives you secure online file accessibility without having your data on third party servers. Everything lives in your home or office.
I’ve been using Dropbox and exterior hard-drives for my backups, but this looks like it would be an improvement on those 2. If only they (or something like them) were available in Japan.
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Cool way to carry your digital crap
Here’s what I’ve been using:
This doesn’t even include my 2 iPods which I use in class sometimes to calm me down play English songs for students.
I also carry this pocket inside the bag I carry into the classroom. It doesn’t include my iPad2, tho.
Then the other day, I saw, on another teacher’s desk, this A4-sized black mat filled with white iPad cables and other digital stuff. A little tag on the side said GRID-IT.
I had to get one. Actually, I got this Grid-it which includes a case for an iPad. Here’s a plain vanilla one on sale at Amazon Japan (I’m an Amazon affiliate). They are just so cool. I think I’ll keep mine in the box and just take it out at night and fill it up with stuff, maybe fire up a little devotional incense stick or two…. Maybe I’ll get me one of these?
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Seizure Warrant Against Mutum Sigillum | Lenz Blog
This seems to be a big story, getting bigger by the minute.
Bitcoin has been in the news a bit (sorry) lately, from bloggers MikeinTokyoRogers, Mish, and others (e.g. economist Frank Shostak). Tokyo resident, solar energy and legal expert Prof. Lenz has been toying with a “kanji” for Bitcoin. Mutum Sigillum is owned by the man who owns Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange.
The United States District Court in Maryland has issued a Seizure Warrant against a company called Mutum Sigillum (which seems to be Latin and mean something like “silent seal”). The Warrant authorizes to seize funds of Mutum Sigillum stored at the Dwolla account No. 812-649-1010.
Dwolla operates an online payment service that is open only to residents of the United States.
Mutum Sigillum is an American company owned by Mark Karpeles, who also owns the World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, located in Japan right next door to my university.
The warrant is accompanied by an affidavit (a sworn statement of facts) by a Special Agent of “Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”. This Affidavit is not only a statement of fact, but it also explains some legal theories behind the application for the Seizure Warrant.
The Affidavit establishes that a “Confidential Informant (CI-1)” residing and banking in Maryland was able to send some funds to himself, with Mutum Sigillum and Mt.Gox involved in the process.
Prof. Lenz asks, how exactly is Mt. Gox involved in someone sending funds to himself?
Read the whole thing over at Lenz’s blog Seizure Warrant Against Mutum Sigillum | Lenz Blog. (Prof. Lenz seems to be a user of Bitcoin, judging by the fact that he got himself a vanity Bitcoin address; he also posted about Forebes journalist Kashimir Hill’s experiment of living for one week entirely on Bitcoin)
Update: Tea Party Economist Gary North has also picked up the story:
Everyone with any understanding of the U.S. government knew that something this would happen. Maybe the owners planned for this. Maybe the fiat money in their account is like the $20 bill that people put in their upper drawer in the bedroom dresser: “easy money” for burglars, who will take the money and run. But one thing is for sure: the owners look silly.
If you are going to create an alternative currency, (1) have your citizenship in the Bahamas, (2) have your bank account in the Cayman Islands, (3) have your company set up on the Isle of Man, (4) register your domain name in Russia, and (5) have your site’s servers in the Netherlands.
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
How to Live a Messy, Unorganized, Flawed, Magical, Dream Life | DEG Consulting
Super-organized Dan Gold who uses Evernote and Springpad to help him Get Things Done and wrote an ebook about it and another one for Springpad has a blog and has recently started a podcast, has invited guest poster Michelle to write something on his blog. What does she write about? How to Live a Messy, Unorganized, Flawed, Magical Dream Life.
Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a children’s book author and illustrator. I have a dream life. I often refer to my life as ‘magical.’ I travel all over the country doing school visits, talking to children and selling my books. When my books got published 2 years ago, I quit my job as a full-time graphic designer so that I could promote and sell them. When I quit, The Husband was um, let’s go with slightly Read: VERY nervous about it. An income stream he could count on goes in the category of ‘things that put my husband in his happy place’ and publishing is not an industry known for providing a stable income.
This June it will be two years since quitting and I am happy THRILLED to report that I have doubled my income…
Read the rest on Dan Gold’s blog: How to Live a Messy, Unorganized, Flawed, Magical, Dream Life | DEG Consulting.
these are the top things that work in my life – in no particular order:
The list includes nothing original, but perhaps they all bear repeating. For my money, the first and the last items on her list are the most important. If you got the others on the list but not these two, not sure you’d have a lasting happiness.
1. I follow my heart. I do not waste time on things that don’t feel right or do not resonate with me. If I try something and it just isn’t working? I stop doing it. I trust my gut when I know enough is enough and it just isn’t working. Once I quit my job, I swore I would not ever do things that I did not love and was not passionate about. Life is too short. (Quick side note: I worked 10 years nights and weekends on researching publishing, honing my craft, getting rejected ELEVENTY-BILLION times before I got published. I guess what I am saying is, when I quit, I had paid my dues.)
11.I am grateful. I constantly say out loud how grateful and thankful I am for this life. It rocks. It really does. But it can be gone tomorrow. Part of it or all of it. So I am not willing to waste a minute not enjoying it and living it to its fullest. I certainly don’t know how much time I have left on this earth, so I live my life at 100% and am grateful for every second I get to have.
Read the whole thing on Dan Gold’s blog: How to Live a Messy, Unorganized, Flawed, Magical, Dream Life | DEG Consulting.
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
BBC News – Clear your desk and go anywhere almost paperless
Brooks Duncan of DocumentSnap.com hits the big-time: a mention on BBC news:
There’s been a huge shift in the paperless office concept recently. At one time people scanned purely for archival reasons.
Now they make “access anywhere” the main priority. It’s often portrayed as easy – scan, shred, relax. However many little obstacles get in the way.
According to Brooks Duncan who runs an advice website called documentsnap.com the most challenging part of the process is to think about it before you start, and find a method that works for you.
“It definitely pays off when you are first looking at going paperless to take some time with organization,” he says.
“What a lot of people do is they go out and buy a scanner and then start scanning their documents. They replace their physical paper mess with a digital mess!”
via BBC News – Clear your desk and go anywhere almost paperless.
(New sentence? Let’s have a new paragraph. Coz folks can’t take too much print all in one go. And there I am, trying to teach my students that it just looks silly to write a new sentence on a new line each time.)
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Evernote just got better
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The ability to search for text within PDFs and even with JPEGS has long been a great feature of Evernote. It’s taken the combined advice of Brooks Duncan and Jamie Rubin to persuade me that search is often a more effective way of bringing up the notes or docs that I want, rather than an elaborate hierarchy or lots of clever tags. (I probably hold the world record for number of useless tags in Evernote; 99% of them tag just one note.) See especially tip #4 in Going paperless: tips for organizing your digital file cabinet , as well as Brooks Duncan’s paperless guides which include tips on how to search and find the files you want, and not just in Evernote.
The search function just got better. Evernote Premium subscribers just got an upgrade:
Your Premium Account Just Got Better
Search inside your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
with our newest feature, just for Evernote Premium.We’ve supercharged search for Evernote Premium users. Now, any attached document, presentation, and spreadsheet created using Microsoft Office and iWork will show up in your search results across almost every version of Evernote that you use.
The best part: Document Search comes in addition to the existing priority image recognition and PDF Search, which makes any scanned documents attached to notes searchable for Premium users.
Our already powerful search just got even better.
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I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Going Paperless: My Virtual Bookcases in Evernote | Jamie Todd Rubin
Since coming across Jamie Todd Rubin’s great collection of blog posts on using Evernote to go paperless, I’ve been plowing through his articles and putting many of his workflows into practice, such as automating things with IFTTT, and his brilliant suggestion of creating a digital version of your house.
Well, here’s another one. If you are like Rubin and me (note the subtle association there; next, I’ll be using his first name), and have tons of books, and can’t always remember whether you have a book or not (and if you have, where it is), then this is for you. Tomorrow, I’m packing my digital camera and will get started on creating my virtual bookcase in Evernote.
Some time back, I wrote a Going Paperless post called “Creating a Digital Version of Your House” in which I described how I use tools like Skitch and Penultimate to capture floor plans and measurements around the house that might be useful to have when I am away–say at the hardware store. While I was away on my Internet vacation, it occurred to me, as I was measuring my bookshelves, that it might be equally useful to have a digital version of my bookshelves in Evernote. With something like 1,100 books, I can’t always remember if I happen to have a particular book or not, and it might be useful to have a quick reference.
… I know there are database systems out there for keeping track of books, and I’ve tried many of them but they are too time consuming for me. It occurred to me that, thanks to Evernote’s ability to identify text in images and allow you to search that text, an “image library” of my books might be just the trick.
Read more at Going Paperless: My Virtual Bookcases in Evernote | Jamie Todd Rubin.
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I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Beat the recession! Buy your books 2nd-hand
Beat the recession! Buy your books 2nd-hand, not new. I’m selling a couple more books on Amazon Japan.
- 「Punk Science: Inside the Mind of God」 を ￥1,500 で
@amazonから出品しました http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/1905047932/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=A3JK2JGP13FSLX … - 「Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind (Twayne’s Masterwork Studies)」 を ￥4,200 で
@amazonから出品しました http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/0805716386/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=A3JK2JGP13FSLX … - More books at this link.
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
Introducing The Productive Life Show Podcast! – DEG Consulting | DEG Consulting
Dan Gold, author of the $5 guides to GTD and Evernote (13,000+ copies sold in 12 months) and a similar guide to Springpad + GTD (both of which I sell on this site as Dan’s affiliate) has started his own podcast:
Today is a great day. I can finally announce a new project I have been working on since November: my new podcast called The Productive Life Show, where we’ll be focusing in on topics like Evernote, productivity, GTD, and occasionally figure out yet another way to pronounce the word “Moleskine“.
Dan will present the podcast with Andy Traub,
“a professional podcaster, owns The Take Permission Media Network, authored the book that changed some of my own habits, Early to Rise, and also created some really outstanding video tutorials such as Become an Evernote Expert and Fix My Inbox.”
Dan links to Michael Hyatt who also has a productivity (and leadership) podcast. Hyatt uses a neat WordPress plugin called SpeakPipe which allows viewers to click and send a voice message.
Watch the video to see the free bonuses available to subscribers to the podcast.
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)
How Evernote and Postachio.io helps you create awesome websites – DEG Consulting | DEG Consulting
Dan Gold hosts a guest post on the subject of yet-another-useful-app, Postach.io. Even granting that he uses guest posts, Dan Gold still manages to not only blog about but also actually try out a remarkable number of new apps. His appetite is (apparently) insatiable. How he finds the time is beyond me. Anyway, here’s Philippe Demoulin on Postach.io
Postach.io is a blog service which use notes stored in your Evernote for publishing on a blog. This service is in beta but already offers a simple but still great way to automatically publish and maintain a blog.
read more on How Evernote and Postach.io helps you create awesome websites – DEG Consulting | DEG Consulting.
Update: Fiction writer Jamie Todd Rubin, who by the way has an excellent collection of articles on going paperless which includes lots of examples of how he uses Evernote, does not use Evernote for the actual creative writing, not even his blog posts. But he does use Evernote for planning.Read more at: Going Paperless: 4 Ways To Use Evernote for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly's "Evernote Essentials 3.0", Dan Gold's $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions' Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap's free email course on going paperless first before buying his products. Sign up for it on his homepage. If you purchase any of these digital products from this website, your cost will be the same as if you order directly and I'll get a commission, about the price of a drink. Thank you! :-)