I love reading. Good books, great storytelling. Movies. Movies too. From heart wrenching Sophie’s Choice to "must see again" Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Oh and music! Let’s not forget about music. Sure, you might want to after you see me do a silly high-hat groove-that-bass move in the kitchen – but music sure …
I’m a bit hesitant to say this but I blocked myself from Twitter and other (social) media snacking for 3 days – and I liked it.
While ago I was playing around with inserting Adsense ads not somewhere floating before or after the content but in it.
Geocities closes today. By the end of this day a lot will have been said about that closure. Here’s what I have to say – from a social networking perspective.
Sometimes, like during the Weekly Review, I like to have a hardcopy of the note list (the top pane in the Evernote desktop client). There’s no native option to print the note list but don’t let that stop you. I use a “scrolling window” profile in the screen capture program SnagIt to capture the note …
Finding back items in Evernote is usually as simple as typing something, anything, into the search box and seeing the results appear as you type. For slightly deeper data digging some of us might be tagging our notes and use the [tag:] query to get to very specific notes. The problem begins when you need …
I’m a big fan of the “new note” and “paste into Evernote” global hot keys in Evernote. This week I added to that the global hotkey CTRL + ALT + T to create a new To Do item from any application.
The following 15 minute setup enables you to use Evernote as a frictionless GTD list application. Easy entry, no multiple notebooks required. Works with you, not against you. The setup features: notebook independent setup: enter and use to do notes anywhere, anytime Project List list aggregating all next actions @ context lists Waiting For Someday/Maybe …
Recently I gave Rachel, one of my daughters, a collection of digital documents covering her teenage years and some of her childhood. The collection contains PDF’s, some saved HTML pages, WMV and MOV video’s, a few audio recordings in MP3 format and thousands of digital JPEG photos. It’s a slice of a growing collection, a …
As a data processor I just had to switch to TweetDeck. The built-in Twitscoop view is a constant finger on the pulse of the community’s conversation; I “see” a lot of news and events approaching this way before they hit the news. Another great feature is built-in persistent searches. You can add searches the Tweets …