Working Smart
This morning I read that DropBox announced their new iPhone app, and it occurred to me that you could set up the Dropbox iPhone app to clip images directly into Yojimbo with very minimal effort. I was so pumped. The lack of an iPhone app for Yojimbo was the reason I started using Evernote, so this was a total game changer
I’ve recently reworked my desktop to embrace a lot of the ideas discussed on Minimal Mac. I’ve gone to an auto-hiding Dock, de-cluttered my menu bar, and removed any sign of files, drives, or folders from the Desktop.
When I first started using Evernote, I didn’t really think too hard about how I was going to use notebooks. Was I going to have a single notebook? Multiple? Work notebooks and personal notebooks? I didn’t know. I had no idea and didn’t even give it a second thought. Then before I knew it, I [...]
During my recent foray into rediscovering Evernote, I experimented with Evernote’s Applescript dictionary and Snow Leopard’s updated Services architecture. My goal was to write a service that made capturing data into Evernote even easier.
I was pretty excited to see how easy it was to write a service and created one that directly import files from the Finder into Evernote.
Here’s how to set it up…
I sure felt like I was reading a lot about information organizers or “anything / everything bucket” software over the last week. First, Bare Bones Software released Yojimbo 2.0. Shortly thereafter I read about a new version of Notational Velocity and a press release that Chronos was updating SOHO Notes with iPhone support. Before I [...]
Now that pundits, bloggers, and Mac hackers have had some time with iTunes 9, they are uncovering some nice undocumented updates. These three tips hit the Mac Power Tips feed on Friday, and I thought were good enough to share:
Andy Ihnatko via Posterous:
I usually use the “three flip” rule when browsing in a bookstore. If I can flip to random pages three times and each page compels me to read the page that comes next, I’m sold.
Killer observation and tip