his will be a short tip today, as I am attending the Launchpad Astronomy Workshop in Laramie, Wyoming this week, but one that has been particularly useful to me, ever since Evernote released its “reminder” feature for notes. I have never been invited to so many parties as I have since the Little Man started…
get a lot of questions about the uses of Evernote versus other cloud storage applications, for instance, Evernote vs. Google Drive. The general thrust of the questions is that there is an either-or solution: should I store my stuff in Google Drive, or should I store it in Evernote and what are the pros and…
have written in the past about how I use Evernote and tools like Skitch to create a digital version of my house. This comes in handy when I am away from home and need to remember if a piece of furniture will fit up the stairs, or what type of air filter goes in the…
kay, I know that yesterday I said I was going to post this week’s Going Paperless post today, and then take next week off, while I am on vacation. The problem is I have been so busy that I just haven’t had time. So here is what I am going to do: I’ll get a…
small delay in this week’s Going Paperless post because I can’t seem to find a slot of free time to write the post. I am wrapping up a ton of work before I go on vacation on Friday. In addition to an unusual amount of day job work (and many, many meetings) I have to…
n my efforts to use Evernote to help me remember everything I have discussed in earlier posts how I think of Evernote as a timeline. I get questions on this subject from time-to-time and I thought I’d spend today’s column discussing this in more detail, and providing some additional examples of how I use Evernote in…
have finally gotten around to going through my filing cabinet, getting rid of what paper I can get rid of, and scanning the rest. (This in itself will be a topic for a future post.) When I got started going paperless, I decided from the outset that I’d only worry about new, incoming paper, and…
vernote can be a valuable tool for going paperless. Once paperless, I’ve noticed I have more flexibility when it comes to dealing with life’s little emergencies. What follows are some tips I’ve found to be particularly helpful in those panicky situations. Tip #1: A checklist for recovering data Back in January, I did a dumb…
ast year, Twitter changed its API so that IFTTT could not longer use it as a trigger. Previous to that, I had an IFTTT recipe that sent all of my tweets to Evernote. I came up with a workaround that used Twitter’s RSS feed to send all of my Tweets to Evernote. That worked for…
s part of my recent efforts to automate as many of the routine things that I do, and reduce the amount of time I spend on them, in order to carve out more time for the creative things that I enjoy, I have discovered a strange little phenomenon. Sometimes, a counter-intuitive action can be the…
here are many benefits of going paperless. There is less clutter around the house (paper clutter, anyway). It is much easier to find documents. You can access those documents from just about anywhere. Another benefit is that your family can access those documents, too. Even better, they can go paperless themselves. The question then becomes,…
had occasion to call my cable company for some technical support over the weekend. They’d sent me a new cable modem and the last step of the process was to activate the modem. You could do this online or call the number. Unfortunately, the activation didn’t work when I tried it online, so I had…