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Send PDF Files to EverNote

March 14, 2008 - 10:05 pm

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Posted in Productivity | 8 comments

UPDATE: Since releasing version 3.0.0.842 in September 2008, Evernote for Windows now supports import, indexing, and preview of PDF files.  The Mac version supported this several months prior.  The work-around below is no longer needed (but still fun to try if you want to experiment with and learn more about Ghostscript).
UPDATE 2 (May 2009):  A [...]

DROE Tool Now Supports Outlook

January 21, 2008 - 1:41 am

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Posted in Productivity | 30 comments

I just posted an update to my Daily Record of Events (DROE) Tool, please check out the Downloads page. Version 0.3 adds some additional shortcuts for fast Outlook task and message creation, as well as easy creation of PigPog tasks. (Note that the Outlook shortcuts have only been tested on Outlook 2003). [...]

DROE Tool Update

December 28, 2007 - 10:18 pm

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Posted in Productivity | 15 comments

I posted a minor update to the DROE Tool, now at version 0.2 (Beta). There are three changes in this release:

The download now includes a detailed README file with installation/upgrade instructions, screen shots, and troubleshooting tips.
The check to make sure that the OneNote DROE page successfully opened is now case insensitive, so it’s a [...]

Forever Tasks – How do *you* handle them?

December 26, 2007 - 11:10 pm

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Posted in Management, Productivity | 4 comments

Andy raised an interesting question last week commenting on my post “Bending OneNote and Outlook to Fit my GTD System“. His question relates to something I like to call “Forever Tasks”. These are basically projects that have no real end date that you have to continually track and execute. Here is [...]

A Better Calculator – Go RPN on Your PC

December 17, 2007 - 8:02 am

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For those of you that don’t enjoy RPN calculators, you can skip this post… Yes, RPN does stand for Reverse Polish Notation. It doesn’t mean it’s a backwards way of doing things. Actually, it’s a much smarter more compact way of doing things. It was originally just “Polish Notation”, invented [...]