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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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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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