Getting “9 Things” Done With Penultimate and Evernote. In last week’s post, I discussed how I use Penultimate as a commonplace book that replaces the pocket notebook I used to carry around. At the end of that post, I promised that this week, I’d describe how I use Penultimate to help plan out my day. Over the years I’ve tried lots of methodologies for getting things done each day. I’ve made lists, I’ve used organizational software, I’ve even tried GTD on a number of occasions. None of them really fit my work style. It occurred to me that part of my problem making lists was that they were never ending and not focused. I wanted my lists to be informal. Of course, there was some overhead in that each day, I had to scribble out the “template” in Penultimate and then fill it in. These are my “9 things” for today. How I manage my 9 things Step 1.
Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. One thing I don’t do is change the list during the day. So far, this has worked out much better for me than the other systems I have tried. Step 1. Step 2. Step 6. Step 7. Going Paperless Evernote and Any Scanner On Your Mac - Jacken's Blog. Going paperless Tired of drowning in stacks of papers? Want to go paperless? Here’s how I moved all my documents to the cloud and cleared up a lot of the clutter at home. I used my old trusty photo scanner, because when all the old papers are scanned and achieved, I only have to scan the new inflowing papers, not the insane stacks of paper I had previously.
Scanning Workflow The easiest route is to buy an advanced duplexed document scanner like the highly regarded and award winning Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 duplex document scanner. Scanning software The Folder Action described below makes it possible for any program that can scan and save a file to a folder to upload automatically to Evernote. ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac I first tried to use ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac. A good thing about ABBYY is that this software is often included with document scanners. Adobe Acrobat The Workflow Add a “Run AppleScript” action to the Automator script and add the code below. Top 10 Paperless Posts of 2012. Canon imageFORMULA P-215 Scan-tini Personal Document Scanner: Office Products. Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Mobile Document Scanner: Office Products. 3 tools of the trade. This is the first post in my new series of weekly tips on going paperless.
These tips are based on my own experience and what has worked best for me. If you are interested in finding out why I went paperless in the first place, you can read about it here. At this moment, I have about 20 weeks worth of tips posts. I hope to accumulate more before I run out. The first few weeks will be on basic topics and then I’ll move into other areas of interest. All of these tips can be found under the “Going Paperless” category on this blog. If you have any suggestions, let me know. After more than a year of going paperless, I’ve found that there are three essential tools that I probably couldn’t have gotten along without. 1.
Evernote is software that allows you to capture notes in a variety of forms. I chose Evernote because it met all of my high level requirements for paperless storage: There are other products out there that perform similar functions and I looked at several of them. 2. 3. How I Went Completely Paperless in Two Days. MyCampus Secure Login. ForAllRubrics - Super Powered Rubrics. Purely Paperless.