Saving articles with 8.5×110-inch size PDFs (yes, 110 inches long)
How a 110-inch PDF makes for a better reading experience
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Looking at your screenshots from ten years ago
Screenshots are such a handy way of capturing information on screen. Do you save your screenshots? I do. I save so many screenshots, it’s crazy. In the past 120 days, I have about 700 screenshots. Ten years from now we should play a game. Every day, look at random screenshot you made from exactly ten …
I have a problem with Evernote. I use it an archive, not as active in-progress writing.
When you write a blog post or a draft of something, where do you save it? I put all my blog posts into Evernote. It’s a great app to save documents and images. Having all my blog drafts together in one organized place is so handy. All the drafts are searchable. When you go to …
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The discovery metadata field
The internet would be a really interesting place if every article that was shared automatically had a “via link.” Ok, so the internet is already interesting. But what makes the internet such a great place is its connectivity. Everything is linked together. We can easily share a link to an article. So many links all …
Approaching the blog as log
I’m taking a new approach to my blogs where as soon as I write the blog post, I publish it. In the past, I would schedule the posts so they appeared one a day. I do like the idea of the consistency of a post per day, and having them spaced out. I’m putting the …
My 11 essential Chrome menu bar icons
The Chrome menu bar can be a great location for shortcuts. I use my menu bar to get instant notifications of new emails and Linkedin messages. My menu bar also allows me to take the webpage I’m currently viewing and quick check it’s popularity, save an article, and annotate the page. However, your Chrome menu …
Why do I have 25,000 notes saved in Evernote?
Evernote is a fantastic service to save all sorts of things. Interesting articles, blog posts, to do items. I’m about to hit a milestone of 25,000 notes. How do I work with this large amount of notes? With notebooks! In Evernote, you put every note into a notebook. I have about 50 notebooks, which is …
The 39 most essential iPhone apps of the past five years
The apps that make your phone’s home screen have special honor. The home screen can hold around 24 to 28 apps. You hand-pick them for easiest access. The other apps on your phone? Buried on secondary pages. Chances are, over the years you fine-tune this list of apps that appear on your home screen. Comparing your home …
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11 Chrome extensions I use every day
Make your Chrome browser more flexible and powerful with these handy extensions. I use these eleven Chrome extensions every day. Evernote Web Clipper Save any webpage to Evernote. I use this for almost every single article I read online. Whenever I ask myself, “what was that article I read about XYZ?” I can search my …
Will Pinterest become the champion of saving online content?
With Pinterest changing its “Pin It” button to “Save” a few months ago, they are focusing on the saving aspect of content, instead of pinning it to a visual board. Pinning, saving. What’s the difference? Pinning something to a board implies short-term use. You have a project going on, and you want to gather information …
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Auto-generating a list of authors whose articles you found interesting
Over the course of a year, you probably end up reading hundreds of interesting articles. Even if you read just one interesting article every week day, that’s 240 interesting articles in one year. In this digital age, we mostly ignore who wrote the article. We might even ignore the publication. Whenever I read an interesting …
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Evernote to search the contents of your items in storage
Evernote can hold so many things. Blog drafts, photos of notes, articles. It’s amazing archival service that is searchable. It even searches for text in your photos! Today I was looking for a blog draft about my notepad setup, I headed over to Evernote and searched for “notepad.” Certainly enough the notepad blog post came …
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The next Google: personal search
Where did you post that thought? Did you save it in Evernote, or in Google Drive? Maybe it’s in your Dropbox. Perhaps it’s on your blog, or maybe you tweeted it. Hmmm. Where is it? Wouldn’t it be nice to have one site where you can search through everything you have? A unified search through: …
Six great ways to use Evernote
1) Blog drafts Ever have a great idea for a blog post? You don’t want to lose that idea. In Evernote you can quickly jot down those ideas. I have 778 unpublished blog drafts. Anything that will be an idea for a post. A photo. A website link. I’ll copy and paste instant messenger conversations into a note. …
Evernote tames the article consumption workflow
Evernote is helping me tame all the articles I read in RSS; articles that I want to take some sort of action on: Blog about the article Archive it as pdf Watch a video from inside the link I’ll write a post outlining how I use Evernote to help my article reading/sharing workflow from iPhone …
Running text-conversion on PDF files
Evernote runs text-recognition on all the images uploaded to their service. This great feature allows you to search through photos taken of notes and printouts. How does Evernote do it? It sounds like a fairy land. I’m using Adobe Acrobat Pro to OCR a batch of 32 PDF files that I scanned on the printer …
Is text in images indexable by Google?
Does Google indexes the text in images on webpages? We were all taught that text in images is bad for SEO, because Google can’t index the text. However, having an Evernote Pro account makes me think differently now. I upload all my screenshots to Evernote, because it can index the text in the image and …