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Evernote Working Example – Business Meeting 2 4

May

4

2012

In this post I will present the work I did in Evernote at the Business Meeting described in my previous post. I will try and point out the pros and cons of using Evernote for meetings as they emerged from this working example. Throughout the whole process I used Evernote to store and retrieve information, either on ...

Evernote Working Example – Business Meeting 1 1

Apr

24

2012

In the following posts I will present an actual working example of how I use Evernote in real life. Specifically I will show the how I use Evernote on an actual business meeting, taking advantage of the tagging and advanced search functionality of Evernote. The purpose of these posts is to show how we can actually ...

Getting Organized with Evernote – GTD Task Management 1

Apr

12

2012

In this post I will present a method for implementing GTD Task management with the help of Evernote. This method relies on the methodology described on Getting Organized with Evernote – GTD Methodology. Task management plays an important role in getting organized, especially in environments where change is constant. Again David Allen’s GTD gives us a ...

Getting Organized with Evernote – GTD Methodology 5

Apr

10

2012

This is the first of a series of tutorial like posts that will follow concerning how to get organised with Evernote. There are a lot of methods that people use for getting organized, each having its own pros and cons. When it comes down to actually putting the methods into actions there is no right ...

Power by simplicity with ifttt 1

Oct

31

2011

With ifttt.com you can create tasks depending triggers from various channels on the basis of “If this then that”. Sounds very basic … and it is. Its power though comes from combining different channels giving its users the chance to automate a lot of processes done manually up to now. Classic example is when you are ...

Tag your plug

Oct

21

2011

Being productive involves all aspects of life, whether its how you manage your tasks to how you manage your cables… as long as it makes your life easier. Here’s an interesting solution for managing your cables. Just place some bread tags on your cables and write down what is connected there. Simple but really really ...

Another phone to tablet

Oct

21

2011

Seems another company is considering a phone to tablet duo. After Asus and CMIT Fujitsu jumps in the game with this beautiful idea. Source: Yanko

Productivity Services 101 2

Sep

20

2011

I mentioned in a previous posts productivity tools that I use. By definition these tools or services must help me be more productive, thus they should be easy to use and take as little of my time as possible to administer. Some notion of automation should apply so as to save as much time as ...

Multi-OS/device Task Management with toodledo

Sep

6

2011

Ever since I discovered that you could use the internet for task managenent (think yahoo calendar… just found out I had pending tasks from 2001 🙂 ), I was trying to figure out a workflow that would work for me. My requirements were simple… help me remember all of my tasks, keep track of all things I ...

Web apps UI trends

Jul

11

2011

Google’s social initiative google+, gave the opportunity to change their main web applications (search, gmail, calendar, google +) UI considering the new trends. Even though they are still experimenting they seem to be on the right track. They are combining cleanness, simplicity and flexibility. Google say their design principles are based on focus, elasticity and effortlessness. I will try ...