Tag Archives: mac

Feb201016

geewiz

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My thinking tools

Just like “good writing comes from writing and not from good writing tools“, good thinking doesn’t come from good thinking tools. But tools can help you concentrate on the task at hand instead of the environment you’re doing it in.

The creative congregation of the Church of Mac seems especially interested in which tools help in getting things done. Summing up many conversations I had on blogs, IM, Twitter and in real life (gasp!), I put together this mind map of the tools I use to collect ideas, thoughts as well as important documents I need to refer to.

In another article, I’ll describe my work and data flow when I use those tools.

Take a look and please tell me in the comments what tools we have in common and what your recommendations are!

Nov200921

geewiz

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Another use for Evernote: Collect conference material

Before I’ll leave for DrupalCamp Vienna on Thursday night, I’ll have some preparations left to do. Where should I gather all the stuff — the hotel confirmation, the train reservation, links to places in Vienna I’d like to see? While many items land inside my email inbox, there also are website snapshots and other documents. And then, there’s the material I’ll collect at the conference itself: photos, notes, slides etc.

Evernote_Icon.jpgIt’s great timing that Michael Gray just published his article, How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide.

Although I’m already an Evernote premium subscriber, that’s a use case I haven’t thought of until now. But of course: Evernote will willingly store all the stuff I drop into or email to the notebook “DrupalCamp Vienna” that I just created. With my iPhone, I can shoot snapshots of presentation slides with my iPhone and have them made searchable through the Evernote text recognition mechanism. I’ll even be able to record sound snippets to transcribe later. This really makes sense.

Thanks for the tip, Michael!