lifehacks + cooltools
Do you want the interesting or the boring Snagit upgrade?
I have Snagit. I find it very useful. I have Windows (careful, it’s contagious). The ad below makes me wish I had a Mac so I could buy the Mac upgrade. Does the Windows upgrade sound exciting enough to you to spring for the “only $24.95″? Snagit 11 on Windows More work space with a [...]
» Email Zen: Clear Out Your Inbox :zenhabits
Leo Babauta has written several useful posts on GTD. This one is about getting email inbox to zero (Leo uses Gmail), and I’ve emphasised one section: I have only one folder: Archive. When I respond to an email, or finish reading it if it doesn’t need response, or note it on my to-do list, I [...]
More on tags or notebooks in Evernote
Over at the Evernote User Forum, there’s a useful discussion of the tags vs notebooks issue, and one commenter uses the same system as me. Dan Gold often recommends this commenter’s e-book “Evernote for Lawyers”, and incorporates some of his ideas into his own “Unofficial guide to capturing everything and getting things done”, now in its [...]
GTD Collection + Daily reviews and routines
Michael Kuhn writes about getting started with David Allen’s organizational method, GTD. His experience matches mine, although it’s taking me a few years rather than months: I know when I first started getting everything into my system, I had a ton of stuff I hadn’t put into my inbox because I didn’t have one. Collection [...]
Evernote and GTD on an iPad
Here’s an article by John Mayson on how he uses Evernote with GTD. Below, I’ve added comments on how I use it with specific reference to the iPad2, which is mostly where I play with Evernote these days. This is going to be a long-assed blog post, so if you’re in hurry, here’s a summary: [...]
Use ScanSnap Organizer Distribute By Keyword To Automatically File Your Documents | Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog
Another great tip from DocumentSnap Paperless blog. This is for folks who use the Fujitsu ScanSnap and its associated software, ScanSnap Organizer. When Brooks says “use a highlighter”, he means a physical highlighter – this is clear in the video but not in his blog post – and you have to highlight the phrases you [...]
How To Encrypt Evernote On Microsoft Windows | Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog
Just learned this v useful tip via Brooks Duncan’s hugely useful DocumentSnap Paperless blog, and have started implementing it immediately. One common comment about Evernote is that the service is awesome, but people wish that it supported encryption of notes or notebooks. To address this, Evernote introduced the ability to encrypt text inside a note, [...]
The Challenge « The Challenge
Because I’m on Dan Raine’s email list, I was informed about this podcast. In the podcast, I discovered (among other, even more interesting facts) that Skitch just came out with a (free?) app for the iPad, and Skitch is now owned by Evernote. In the podcast, Ed or GuruBob says he loves Skitch coz he [...]
Re-organizing my Evernote notebooks
At the end of last year, veteran newsletter writer and web-surfer Gary North wrote about Evernote: Internet Explorer offers Favorites. Firefox offers Bookmarks. They do the same thing. With the two clicks of your mouse, you can save a link to a Web article. With a little extra work, you can re-name it. It’s there [...]
Blank pages problem solved. Problem caused by Diigo – Web Highlighter Firefox extension
Blank pages problem solved. The problem was caused by this addon: Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.. Resetting Firefox resulted in most clicked links opening properly in a new page, but still a couple of sites did not respond, i.e. clicking on the link brought up a [...]
