December 2011 Archives | Cloud Productivity

How to Track eBills with Evernote

Are you registered for a bunch of services and utilities that you get eStatements, or eBills for? I recently switch phone companies and elected to get a PDF bill each month sent to me via email (email is so much easier to track and organize than paper… urgh… I hate paper). Today I received my first statement from them via email and, I couldn’t have down what I’ve done in the past when I receive a PDF via email that I want to keep safe and download it, then add it to a new note in Evernote, but instead, I took what would have been a repeatable task and automated it.

Here’s how I now get my eStatements delivered directly to my Evernote inbox using Gmail.

How To Relax When You Miss Your Train

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A few days ago I was at the train station near the city. It was peak hour in the morning. As my train arrived at the platform I stepped in (along with hundreds of other people). As the doors began to close I noticed someone running as fast as they could down the stairs to the platform and when they realised that the doors had closed, I could see them curse through the windows.

It got me thinking… what’s the rush? What’s so important?

It was peak hour at a busy train station. 99% of the people there were going into the city. The next train, as indicated on the platform signs, was due in two minutes. Was it really worth that person rushing to get to the train or getting so upset when the doors closed in front them when, if they had casually walked down the stairs, they would have been able to wait comfortably for about thirty-seconds for the next train?

5 Tips To Save Time In Evernote

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Evernote is a cross-platform application that helps me remember everything. Whether it’s a photo, a reminder, a place, a bill I need to pay, a diary entry, a tweet, a web page… anything. I use i a lot. For work, blogging, family and as a way to keep paperless. My friends and family are always being told how amazing it is and that they’re mad if they don’t go and set it up right away. I have an Evernote Premium account and use it on my Mac, iPhone and on the web from my netbook that is running Ubuntu.

I’d like to share five tips that I use to speed up my Evernote workflow. There are a lot more tricks than just the ones below, but they can wait for another post.

The Wunderkit Release Strategy

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6Wunderkinder is the software development company behind the incredibly popular Wunderlist. 6Wunderkinder started to make themselves known at the end of 2010 by launching Wunderlist.

Wunderlist is a task management application that works on almost every device! There’s a web version, iPad/iPhone and Mac version, Android version, Windows version and even a linux version. There are two devices that are missing from this list – Blackberry and Windows Phone. Wunderlist was initially released on Windows, Mac and iPhone and it’s popularity grew phenomenally quickly. This was largely because:

It’s free
It looks amazing
It keeps things simple

It also helped that no matter what device you were using, your tasks were always in sync. Wunderlist sync’s tasks up to the cloud and then keeps your other devices up to date seamlessly.