Having been more or less paperless for the bulk of 2011, I recently had the opportunity to collect all of my tax documentation for sending along to my accountant. Despite having an accountant do the actual work of figuring out how much I owe (or the government owes me), it typically takes up several hours…
In my capacity as Evernote’s paperless lifestyle ambassador, I get enough questions about the scanner that I’ve used to go paperless that it probably warrants its own short post. I use the Canon ImageFormulaP-150M. The “M” designates its compatibility with a Macintosh, which is the machine it is connected to at home. Why did I…
When I am at home in my office, I do all of my fiction-writing on my MacBook using Scrivener. It used to be that when I was away from my office, I took my laptop with me, but after getting my iPad last spring, I decided to leave the laptop at home and do my…
I’ve written before of the many reasons why I love e-books. One of those reasons is the ability to highlight text and make notes about what you are reading. I find this enormously valuable, and it is something I would never dream of doing in a physical book. I’ve been reading a lot of magazines…
For anyone who might have missed the news, the Scrivener blog made the official announcement: We’ve been dropping hints for a while, but can finally make an official announcement: Scrivener for iOS is now in development. Looks like a version will be released sometime in 2012. This is so cool, and I’m so excited that…
For a very long time, I kept a paper diary: a row of those red books with the words STANDARD DIARY sit on one of my bookshelves. I didn’t use the diary to record my secret desires and fantasies. Instead, it was a place to record the days events so that I could recall them…
Today, Evernote is introducing a new ambassador program. They have asked a bunch of their hardcore users to become ambassadors in different areas of expertise to help spread the word on how Evernote can be used to make life easier in a variety of areas. I was asked to be Evernote’s lifestyle ambassador for going…
I read quite a few posts yesterday of people who had some rather nightmarish experiences upgrading their iPhones and iPads to iOS 5, some of which resulted in bricked devices. My experience was completely opposite. When I got home, I did the following and it all worked smoothly and without a hiccup: Upgraded my MacBook…
I got a new iPhone 4 today. This wasn’t really something I’d planned. My old iPhone was a 3G and it’s battery, at least, was on its last legs. At the hospital yesterday, the battery died after about 2 hours of intermittent use: full charge to no charge in 2 hours. That’s been par for…
Last week I wrote a post suggesting some improvements to some of the apps that I use on the iPad. One of my suggestions was the ability to send articles from Zinio directly into Evernote. Well, that hasn’t happened yet, but yesterday, I discovered that my RSS app, Reeder released a new version in which…
More and more, I am transferring my base of computing operations to the iPad. There are really only two things that I do a substantial amount of on my laptop as opposed to the iPad: writing fiction and writing blog posts. Nearly everything else I do in my iPad and I am beginning to uncover…