“Evernote cites ‘building the Evernote of tomorrow’ as one of the reasons for the price increase. The problem is, we as users really haven’t seen much of a change in their service. For example, using Evernote as a basic notetaker is still a fairly painful experience. Exporting and sharing documents from Evernote is not as easy … Continue reading Notes on Notes and a Farewell to Evernote
I’ve moved from an Evernote evangelist to an Evernote activist and back to a happy Evernote customer, all thanks to the inexplicable absence and now presence of folders within its desktop app. Without rehashing the dark and bloody past, and asking what in the hell took so long and whatnot, let’s move straight to the … Continue reading Christmas Comes Early: Evernote Has Folders!
There are a lot of cool services and applications on the internet- no doubt about it. I use a lot of them, and they make my life easier, more organized and more fun. But they can be better. And I’m going to tell you how. This is part 2 of the series. We’ve already made … Continue reading How to Make Everything Better: Evernote Edition
I downloaded the developer preview of OS X El Capitan onto my late 2014 Mac Mini, and here are my initial thoughts. It’s largely an under the hood update, which means that many of the benefits will be less apparent than in some prior more cosmetic and feature-focused updates. This is a good thing, because Apple … Continue reading OS X El Capitan: Initial Thoughts
So I thought about it for a minute or so, as I was feverishly refreshing the Apple Store page at 2:01 a.m. that sleepy and frustrating Friday morning. Should I get the bigger iPhone 6 or the huge iPhone 6+? I got the big, honking iPhone 6+. It came down to two things. And unlike … Continue reading Six Things About My iPhone 6+
I used to be part of a group that met every few weeks to plan all the awesome things it was going to do. There were action plans, charts, and PowerPoints. There were discussions about global strategy, leveraging platforms, and other important sounding phrases. It was mind-numbing. Eventually, I realized that planning had become camouflage … Continue reading Stop Planning, Start Doing
One of the things I have been interested in for a long time is creating an efficient paperless workflow, that will allow me to easily obtain, process, file and access virtually all of my important documents, in digital paperless format. I’ve been doing this a long time, and most of my documents, from bills to … Continue reading Automation: FileThis May Be the First Step to Paperless Wonderland
Like a lot of people, I have come to rely more and more on mobile applications, and less on desktop programs. I still love my iMac, but the list of things I use it exclusively for (video editing, songwriting, maybe one or two other things) continues to shrink. One of the by-products of this has … Continue reading My 10 Most Important iOS Apps
Oh what the heck. Let’s do one. 10 Dreadful Places Named For Horrifying Events: Let’s see what I can add. How about the Street Where I Had Oral Surgery. Oh, and That Place Where They Made Me Watch Sound of Music. I’ve got more. Well, I guess the Independence Bowl just went from the bottom of the … Continue reading Evening Reading: 2/26/14
I’ve used a ton of image capture and annotation apps, from Evernote web clipper, to various Chrome extensions, to Snag-It and beyond. Today, while reading my feeds and trying not to freeze, I read about Napkin, via iMore. I was a little skeptical, especially given the $40 price tag. But after reading up on it, … Continue reading Napkin is the Best Image Capture and Annotation App
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