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Notetaking

Levenger Circa Notebooks

February 19, 2010

When I am reading, or where I can’t bring a laptop, I like to use physical notebooks. My source for notebooks has been Moleskine, and a company in Florida called Levenger. Levenger has their own notebook system that is so flexible it actually took me a few years to wrap my mind around all of [...]

Something new: PdfPen and EagleFiler

February 18, 2010

As long time readers of this blog know I am a notetaker. I love to look at new note taking programs, but I always seem to come back to my dynamic duo of EagleFiler and DevonThink. Well it might be goodbye to Devonthink. I always keep my eye on the price of any solution I [...]

Why I like EagleFiler

January 18, 2010

I’ve spent a lot of time in this blog showing you what I do with EagleFiler. I guess now would be a good time to tell you the whys. How can such a simple program hold so much in my mind? Answers to these questions after the break.

Using Index Cards to Take Notes

January 6, 2010

A lot of people use Index card for taking ad hoc notes. They don’t want a huge notebook, they want something slim and sleek. I understand that. In the 80′s there was a piece of apparel that all yuppies had and that was a jotter. More about Jotters and index cards after the break

Setting up an encrypted Library in EagleFiler

December 17, 2009

One of the things I was wondering about was setting up an encrypted library for use with EagleFiler. The reason for this is that I may wish to put information into my libraries that will be very private information. I can’t depend on the log in requirements to satisfy my need for security. Because EagleFiler [...]

DevonThink’s new Templates

December 16, 2009

With the latest update to the DevonThink 2.0 public beta they added some new functionality that might be interesting to some of you. Earlier I discussed about the 43 folder system, and the president of the company was kind enough to show me that you could implement the 43 folders system with DevonThink by using [...]

The 5 Cards of Knowledge system

November 5, 2009

As I have said before I am an inveterate note taker. I have filled notebooks with my notes and other pieces of information. The one thing that my notebooks can’t do is change paper. I prefer bound notebooks and so the paper cannot be shifted around. How do I move information from one notebook to [...]

Using Index Cards to take notes

November 4, 2009

Another approach to the taking of notes is the use of index cards. There are several ways to make use of these cards. One of them is to use it as a sort of to do minder. Another is straight note taking. And another is to use the note cards like some large kind of [...]

Using DevonThink as a Super Finder

October 14, 2009

On a mac the Finder is pretty good for what it does, but I am someone who makes a lot of files. I need more beef to my finder than what the current one does. Plus I would rather search a small search area, than the entire computer/websites that spotlight can do. So what was [...]

Getting started with Devonthink

October 8, 2009
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Once you have downloaded Devonthink, the next step is sometimes hard for people to conceive. What do I do next? Devonthink need files to help you get the most out of it. Look in your documents folder, and then drag a folder from the finder window and drop it on a Devonthink database window. Give [...]

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