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03 May 2010
The bank holiday weekend has given me an opportunity to catch up on some work I’ve been toiling over the last few weeks. My last blog post was a month ago and I’ve been desperate to get on top of one project in particular so that I can catch up on some blogging. That project is the migration and consolidation of several of my blogs into one single site - thoughtasylum.com.
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03 Apr 2010
So it’s just a matter of hours until the iPad is released in the US (over here in the UK we’ve got a bit longer to wait), and I got to thinking about the future of one of my favorite applications on this new platform - Evernote. Ever since Phil Libin posted …
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02 Apr 2010
Did you know that sometimes it’s better to format text in Microsoft Excel 2007 as something other than text? If you have cells containing more than 255 characters, cells formatted as “Text” are displayed as a series of # characters. It makes no difference if you set the cell to word wrap, it simply doesn’t display.
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16 Mar 2010
For some time now Evernote has supported thee-mailing of notes into Evernote to automatically create a note. This has been fantastically useful in terms of automation of things like automatically feeding tweets into Evernote or just quickly getting pages from the iPhone Safari browser into Evernote. Today Evernote took a big step forward with this and added functionality to the e-mail processing to allow you to specify a notebook and one or more tags for the note generated by the e-mail.
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15 Mar 2010
Building on yesterday’s post on an improved template system for Evernote I’d like to share with you how I use a variation on this system to create a daily journal template.
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14 Mar 2010
ReaddleDocs is an iPhone/iPod touch app that allows you to download files from web sites (amongst other things). Frequently you may find you want to download something when you’re browsing the web in Safari. To open the page in ReaddleDocs, you just need to prefix the url with an “r” - i.e. “http://” becomes “rhttp://”.
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14 Mar 2010
One of the things that people have frequently asked for in Evernote is for the inclusion of templates. I wrote a post in November 2009 about how ENSCRIPT could be used to automate the creation of notes in Evernote based on a template. I’ve now taken that post which was more a proof of concept and created what I think is an improved system for using templates in Evernote.
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28 Feb 2010
A few days ago my partner was having a problem with her organisation’s Twitter feed. Part of their feed is driven by an automated RSS to Twitter service and for some reason the RSS feed reset and the Twitter account was then flooded with several years of postings from the RSS feed.
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27 Feb 2010
I love Evernote and the flexibility it gives me to carry my information with me everywhere. What I also make use of from time to time is the option to share information with other people. Typically I share it with other individuals by sharing a notebook with them specifically or simply by e-mailing the content of the note directly to them.
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13 Feb 2010
I usually read manuals before using something, but in the case of my iPod Touch I pretty much dived straight in. However I recently took the opportunity to have a look at the online help within Safari and came across the instructions for using the undo operation. I think I might have accidentally used the undo function before but never realised how to activate it.
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