ne of the side-effects of being several years into going paperless is that on any given day, there isn’t much to scan. A corollary to this is that on the days that I do scan things, chances are good that I’m scanning something that I need to take an action on. Before the good ol’ paperless…
hort post today as I am in L.A. for work and insanely busy. I’m actually writing this post from the bar in my hotel and it is last night, after a roughly 15 hour day of work. So please forgive any brevity. Once a month, export all of my Evernote data to an ENEX file,…
y recent simplification of my notebooks and tags in Evernote provided me with a good opportunity to start using playbooks with Evernote, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. For those who aren’t familiar with them, playbooks are a set of notes that document a repeatable process. My general philosophy is that if…
ast time, I talked about how and why I simplified my notebook organization in Evernote. Today, I’ll discuss how I’ve simplified my tag organization. Both are still works in progress, but the tags more so than the notebooks. To start, let me say that I’ve never been much of a tagger. There are several reasons…
am under the gun on a couple of projects at the day job that have tight deadlines. I am also under the gun for some writing-related projects. To give me a little breathing room, I’m going to take this week off from the Going Paperless post. Part 2 of my 2-part series, How I Simplified…
ver a year and a half ago, I wrote about how I organize my notes in Evernote. To this day, it is one of the most frequently-asked questions that I get about using Evernote and going paperless. It is also a very personal decision. The way we organize is often tailored to the way we…
have recently returned from our annual summer vacation up in Maine. It is always fun, and always relaxing, and except for a relatively minor touch of food poisoning1, this year was no exception. One thing I noticed was that I was less active online for the week I was on vacation–even more so than I…
have been using the Sunrise calendar app for a few years now, and recently, they introduced a new feature that greatly expands the applications with which Sunrise integrates. Previously, I’d used Sunrise to view my Google Calendars, as well as Facebook calendars, the latter mostly to see birthdays or events. In it’s most recent release,…
eing on vacation, I got a little behind on things yesterday, and this morning, we are heading off to Acadia National Park. Bottom line is that this week’s Going Paperless post will come out tomorrow (Wednesday), instead of today. Sorry for the last-minute change. But, you know, vacation.
was looking through the list of my Going Paperless posts the other day and realized that I’ve now been writing this column for over two years. In that time the way I use Evernote to go paperless has evolved, and while some of the earlier posts I wrote are still useful, they don’t always reflect…
was recently asked if there was a way to automatically eliminate the header information you get in a note when you forward an email message to your Evernote account. The short answer is to use the Evernote Web Clipper. This solution really only works if you are using Gmail, which I do. That said, if you…
ast October, I posted my framework for searching in Evernote. The framework illustrated the four most common questions I ask when I’m trying to find something in Evernote: who, what, when, where. If you haven’t seen the framework, here is the high-level illustration from that post: I’ve talked about how I use tags for the…