s a software developer in my day job, I find I am often doing lots of screen captures. I use Skitch for all of these because they are easy to mark up. As a blogger, writing about, say, Going Paperless, I also do a lot of screen captures, as readers of these posts well know.…
ecently, the 1 TB external disk attached to my iMac exceeded 90% of its capacity. I’ve had this external drive for almost 5 years and it has taken me that long to fill it up. The drive contains all of our media files (iTunes music, movies, TV shows), locally stored photos (iPhoto), and software installation…
ne of the most frequently-asked questions I get in my capacity as Evernote’s Ambassador for Paperless Lifestyle is how I organize my notebooks and tags in Evernote. Back in January, I wrote in some detail about how I organize my notes. I also provided an annotation of my tags and notebook structure. The short answer…
often feel like I am so serious with the examples and use cases I provide in these posts that I felt it was time to provide a tip that is more fun-oriented. And so, swallowing my pride, I will begin by admitting that, on occasion, I have completed one of the seemingly endless quiz memes…
his past weekend, science fiction writer Bud Sparhawk and I delivered a talk at the Capclave science fiction convention on “Online Writing Tools.” The purpose of our talk was to demonstrate a wide variety of tools we use in our daily writing work. Bud and I use different tools and have different styles of writing…
his is the first of my biweekly “quick tip”paperless posts. Every other week I’ll do one of these quick tips, and on the weeks I’m not doing the quick tips, I’ll have a regular in-depth Going Paperless post. For more information, see this post. One of the ways I’ve been able to save some time…
irst, don’t panic! Nothing is going away. I am simply making a change to the weekly Going Paperless posts that will make my life a little easier. For a year and a half now, I have been doing these posts weekly. I’ve missed a week here and there but if you look, you’ll see there…
have had my FitBit Flex for something like five months now, long enough to grow comfortable with its benefits and quirks and so I thought I’d put together a list of some tips that can help people who have one (or are thinking about getting one) get the most out of it. 1. Wear it and…
have described how Evernote is the centerpiece of my paperless cloud. But Evernote is far from the only tool that I use to go paperless. I have discussed many of those tools here, and today, I thought I’d talk about how I use Paper. Not, you understand, paper, but Paper, the beautiful app made by…
ast week, in preparation for the release of iOS 7, Evernote released a beautiful new app for iPhone and iPads. The new app is packed with nice little features, but today, I wanted to focus on what I thought was the best feature of all: the ability to create notes quickly. Previous versions of the Evernote…
here has been a long line of people waiting to get new iPhone 5{c|s} devices from the Apple Store in Pentagon City today. Here is a picture of the line, taken from my office which sits in a building above the food court of the mall, looking into the rafters. Enjoy it and be glad…
few weeks ago, I took our car in for its regular maintenance. I had snapped a photo of the maintenance reminder in the windshield of the car and set a reminder in Evernote to ping me to schedule an appointment when the date got close. So far so good. After the service, the service manager…