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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Evernote just got better
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
