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18 May 2010
Spell checking is one of those things that most of us take for granted these days in our applications. Those familiar wavy red lines are all too familiar to most computer users. You may even have noticed them in Evernote, but like many people I need to use technical jargon and in my notes and these are not part of the default English dictionary in Evernote which is a US English dictionary adding further issues for me a UK Evernote user. So let me explain how to update your Evernote dictionary.
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17 May 2010
Like many Mac users I’ve spent many years using Windows and have a significant familiarity with the working practices and keyboard shortcuts of that OS. One of the actions I commonly use in Windows is to minimise all windows. It may not necessarily be “the Mac way”, but I still find myself wanting to do this and have spent some time trying to track down a keyboard shortcut that will let me do this.
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15 May 2010
Power saving on computers is a big deal. As well as being good for the environment it can also preserve battery life on mobile computers. Occasionally however you need to keep your computer awake such as when giving a presentation. Whilst many slide show applications override screen savers, screen dimming, etc. there can also be occasions where you might need to display something else - a video feed on a web page for example.
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15 May 2010
On occasion I find that I need to take text from one Mac application and convert it into plain text for use in another application. I’ve been copying the original content to the Mac’s clipboard, pasting it into a text editor application (to remove the formatting), copying that text and then pasting it into the application I want it in. This is a laborious process and one which I was sure could be improved upon.
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12 May 2010
Following on from the send to Evernote addition for Evernote I also wanted to reproduce the Windows Evernote watched folders feature. This allows a file moved to a specific folder to be automatically imported into a new note within Evernote and again can be accomplished with AppleScript.
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11 May 2010
Being able to add files into Evernote is a particularly useful feature. On my Windows PC I have an option when I right click on a file to send it to Evernote. By default my Evernote installation on my Mac doesn’t provide this option, so I decided to address this shortcoming with a service.
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08 May 2010
I frequently need to type in references to file locations. In OS X if I Get Info on a file or folder I can get a path, but I decided to write a script to widen my options and make things a little faster.
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08 May 2010
A little while back I posted about an improved template system for Evernote. This system was based on exporting a note from Evernote, tweaking it in a text editor and then importing it back again whenever you need a new note based on it. The post was focussed on how to do this in Windows as this is the platform I commonly work with. I’m now starting to use Mac OS X a bit more and I’ve extended the system to work on this platform too.
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06 May 2010
It has been a little time since I posted my improved template system for Evernote and now that the new web site is starting to come together (still lots to do) I can finally share just a few of the sample templates I’m now starting to use.
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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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