It’s funny how timing works. Just yesterday I shared this post comparing Evernote and DEVONthink by Joe Workman on Twitter. In it, one of the knocks against DEVONthink was its lack of comprehensive syncing. Inevitably, the next day DEVONtechnologies has released version 2.5 which adds web sharing and (you guessed it) syncing. Here’s an excerpt […]
Continue readingIf you use Evernote, there may be some situations where you want to have multiple accounts. Maybe you have different family members sharing a computer, maybe you have a “Home” vs. “Work” account. Whatever the reason, it is very easy for Premium users to switch between accounts in both the Mac and Windows versions of […]
Continue readingEvernote is one of those applications that is easy to start using, but hard to master and get all you can out of it. Sure you can put stuff in there, but how do you organize your information and how do you find what you need when you need it? Since 2010, I have recommended […]
Continue readingAs I have written about many times, the whole email-print-sign-scan dance is a bit of a disaster. There are many ways to solve this, but if you are a Gmail user, I came across a very easy way: HelloSign for Gmail. It’s a Gmail plugin that, as the name implies, lets you sign documents right […]
Continue readingI often find myself typing the date of the last day of the previous month. Whether it is financial statements or other documents, it is just a date that comes up all the time. I wanted a way to automate this, so I naturally turned to the Mac applications TextExpander and Hazel. Both tools have […]
Continue readingEvernote allows you to share notes with either a specific person or create a public link for everyone to use. It is not a bad idea to periodically go through and review which notes you have shared so that you can decide whether they should still be public or not. To do this, you can […]
Continue readingI love TextExpander. I use it all day every day all over my Mac. However, I am also getting old and sometimes I know I have created a TextExpander snippet for a filename, Evernote note, or something else, but I just can’t remember what my abbreviation was. Luckily, TextExpander has a great search hotkey feature […]
Continue readingHaving Evernote on your Android device can be extremely handy when you are on the go. However, there is something that often trips people up: the ability to have their notes available offline. There is nothing quite like firing up Evernote on your phone when you are on an airplane or somewhere with no data […]
Continue readingI am a tagger. I tag notes in Evernote and I apply OpenMeta tags to my documents in OS X. It may seem odd, I often do not recommend that people get too into tagging their documents[1]. I find that people are either “taggers” or they are not, and when they are not it adds […]
Continue readingRecently there have been a number of interesting posts outlining how various tech folks use Evernote. For example, check out this experiment by Mike Vardy in which he is going to try to use Evernote for almost everything over the next 30 days. Readers ask me all the time how I use the software, and […]
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