[I]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…
[I] 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,…
[E]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…
[L]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…
[W]e spent our Memorial Day afternoon hanging out with friends. Kelly took the kids to the local park to meet our friends while I walked to the nearby barber to get a long-overdue haircut. From the barber I walked to the park to meet-up with everyone. After a while, we decided to get something to…
[A]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…
[T]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,…
[O]ne question I’ve been asked on several occasions is just how accurate the sleep tracer in the FitBit devices are. I used a FitBit Ultra for over a year and have been using the FitBit Flex for a couple of weeks now. I’ve used the sleep tracker in both, but unlike the Ultra, which required…
[I] 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…
[I] got a new FitBit Flex last Friday, one week ago. It was a replacement for the FitBit Ultra that I’d used for more than a year, before losing it back in March. The Flex is FitBit’s newest activity monitoring product. You wear it as a wrist band instead of clipping it onto your clothing and…
[G]iven that I write science fiction and that I am a science fiction fan, I get asked fairly frequently what books I recommend. I get asked this more frequently by people who don’t generally read science fiction. Sometimes, I am asked for a list of my favorite books regardless of the genre. In the past,…
[O]ne of the benefits I’ve found of going paperless is that it becomes much easier to automate things when the data in question is in digital form and not scribbled on a yellow notepad sitting on your desk. Since I am entirely paperless now, except that paper that comes in over which I have no…