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Evernote Rocks.

So I have spent a long time trying out various ways to take notes and jot down ideas.  I’ve got lots of school paper outlines, class notes, brainstorming sessions, etc scattered throughout my hard drive and online.  Most of these are in somewhat organized word documents, a lot are on Google Docs, some in Google Notebook, and others are on small note taking programs like Mac’s Stickies program or my slightly used xPad program.

I’ve never been entirely happy with any of these.  They all work well for some things, and not well for others.  The online programs aren’t available when I’m not connected to the internet and are sometimes buggy; Word documents are a pain to organize and search even with Mac’s Spotlight search function; and programs like xPad are a good start, but are still pretty limited.

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2009
08/13
CATEGORY
For Students
Productivity
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Well, I have a blog now

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while, but I could never decide what to write about.  Nor have I ever had any really compelling reasons to put in the effort if I did think of a good blog theme.

But then I thought:

1 – I’m an MBA student who will graduate in a year, and a blog would give me a great way to express myself to potential employers who don’t know me at all.

2 – I spend HOURS in front of my computer reading about the latest and greatest internet tools being created every day.  I try to talk about these things with non-dork friends, and they look at me funny.  Now I can just invite them to read my blog if they want to know more about things like….blogs.  Or caffeinated Google search results.

3 – A blog will give me a great way to organize all my interesting Internet finds into one place, so I can look them up later.

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2009
08/12
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For Students
Productivity
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What’s My Point?

This blog is about my frantic sprint to a life where everything I do, write, read, watch, and (perhaps) say will be translated into 1’s and 0’s, stored on an unfathomable number of computers around the world, and be instantly accessible from my MacBook. All the stuff I discuss in here is really cool, (usually) really cheap, and make me more productive.