Productivity

Quix: One Click Access to All of Your Bookmarklets — On Any Browser

Using bookmarklets has become a staple item for me in internet browsing — I use everything from Readability2Evernote, to a multitude of sharing and tracking tools, each with its own nifty difference from the other. My only qualm has been the way they clutter up my toolbar. No longer! I have now installed the [...]

Internet, Organization, Productivity, Social networking

Be Productive With Your Voice, using Dial2Do

On our Posterous site, we previously discussed ReQall, a task manager and reminder system that allows you to record tasks with your voice, using some pretty impressive voice transcription.  But why stop with tasks, calendaring, and reminders?  What if you could use your voice to do much more, such as to send email and [...]

Productivity

Threadsy: Facebook, Twitter and Email All in One Happy Place

Remember, back in the day, when email was one-dimensional? The good ol’ days when all you had to do was remember one contact list and deal with one inbox? Well, those days are long gone, buddy. Today, we are in a world of social media: connecting and sharing with the planet at large in as [...]

Email, Internet, Organization, Productivity, Reviews, Web Apps, twitter

Save Your Work or Just Your Sanity With Giggles

If you have a curious toddler — either your own or just a frequent visitor — then you know how much they truly enjoy pressing the buttons on your computer. Secretly, you are probably certain that the child is bent on pressing just the right combination of buttons at just the wrong time so that [...]

Applications, Productivity, Tips

Gmail: One Inbox to Rule Them All

Yes, I know I used the same line in our GTD in Evernote post — but this article has nothing to do with GTD and everything to do with not having to login to 10 different email accounts every day. And I like Lord of the Rings… A lot. In any case, if you want [...]

Google, Productivity

GTD Not Working for You? Try Action Method Online

Some of you may have already read our rather detailed how-to on Getting Things Done in Evernote with Only One Notebook — in fact, we are pleasantly surprised on a daily basis by how many people keep reading it… But what if you  don’t use Evernote? *gasp* Or what if GTD just doesn’t quite [...]

Productivity, Reviews, Web Apps

5 Tips for Staying Healthy in the Computer Age

Well, it’s official, we live in the age of computers. Surprised? Ok, so you’re probably not — but that only serves to illustrate my point. These are the days where people are often attached to their machinery for hours and hours and sometimes days at a time; and because you geeky folks out there reading [...]

Niche Tip, Productivity

How to Use Your Voice to Bring Order to Your Life

Over on our Posterous site, we recently addressed one use case for reQall, a personal reminder service that allows you to capture information using voice or text.  In that post, we explained how to get information into Evernote using reQall’s voice capturing and transcription features.  There are other ways, though, to use reQall to [...]

Organization, Productivity

5 Adobe AIR Apps I Can’t Live Without

Adobe AIR is a lightweight, multi-OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) platform for running rich internet applications (RIAs) on your desktop. While some have used it to simply recreate their webpage outside of the browser, most AIR apps are unique applications in their own right, often bringing new functionality that is not present in their browser counterparts. [...]

Applications, Media, Productivity, twitter

Getting Things Done (GTD) in Evernote with Only One Notebook

A while back, I was working a job that required much more effort and responsibility than was reflected in my pay grade — familiar story? Well, combined with multiple side-projects, keeping up with my wife, newborn daughter, two dogs and a plethora of other things that required my time and energy, I was drowning. [...]

Evernote, Productivity