e know from the time we bought our house that we’d eventually want to remodel our kitchen. This spring, we finally got around to doing it. And as you might imagine, Evernote has played an integral role in planning and tracking our kitchen remodel. Our remodel is scheduled to wrap up at the end of…
decided to give myself the week off from writing a Going Paperless post. I was motivated in part by the long weekend, and in part by the nearly non-stop work I’ve been doing outside that long weekend. The posts will resume their regular schedule, next Tuesday (June 3). There are folks that tell me that…
esterday, IFTTT introduced the FitBit Channel. This is something I’ve been waiting for! Now it is easy to trigger IFTTT events based on FitBit activity. As an example, I created a recipe that will automatically send a daily summary of the previous day’s FitBit activity to Evernote. There’s a ton of other things possible with…
n my day job as an application developer, I am the only member of my team that works out of our Arlington, Virginia office. Several of my team members work on Pittsburgh, and several more in Santa Monica, California. This is fairly common these days, but I’ve been in this situation for over 11 years…
hen I first started using Evernote, I did so with the full intent of pushing their slogan, “Remember everything,” to its limit. There are many benefits to this. In his book Getting Things Done1, Dave Allen points out that getting things out of your head so that you don’t have to remember them helps reduce stress.…
‘ve promised to try to provide one advanced automation tip each month, and it’s that time again. Fortunately, this month’s automation tip is practical, and requires no programming whatsoever. What problem I am trying to solve Although I’m pretty good at capturing a lot of information, the one area that I have been particularly poor…
s an Evernote ambassador for paperless living, I write a lot about how I use Evernote to go paperless, and automate things in my life. But Evernote can be used for much more than just going paperless. It can be used by students and teachers, but small and large businesses, by artists, foodies, bloggers, photographers,…
he weather here has finally started to feel like spring. Better late than never, I suppose. Spring is my favorite season. Don’t get me wrong, I love the summer, but when you have to go through a cold, snowy winter, there’s nothing quite like spring. For many people, of course, spring means spring cleaning, and…
can remember back when television remote controls were these big brown boxes push buttons that popped down, and brown wires that wound their way back to the television like some kind of country snake. They were very easy to use. You had twenty buttons, each one representing a channel, and when you pushed the button,…
or you redditors out there, as of today, there is now a Going Paperless subreddit which contains links to nearly all of my Going Paperless posts to date. If you prefer that platform, or use it frequently, feel free to join the discussion there. You don’t have to, of course. Things will continue as normal…
noticed earlier in the week that it has been 8 months since I last had an open Going Paperless post in which folks could ask me questions about paperless, Evernote, or automation. I’ve been getting more and more questions via email, and so I figured now was as good a time as any to invite…
rior to going paperless, I often found myself jotting notes down on various pieces of paper in order to keep track of things. If I paid a bill, I’d scribble the check number with which the bill was paid right on the statement so it was readily available if I needed it, for example. These…