CogBlogged Tagged ‘notes’

I’ve been late to the game to jump for joy over Evernote, and I am just beginning to see it as being more than just a place to store bits of information. It pretty much can capture any kind of information, be it text, image, sound, document- store it in the cloud, and syncs it with your computer and almost every flavor of mobile device. It’s been on my machines for months, and to date, my great use of it has been to store my airline frequent flyer numbers, my prescriptions, and someone;s flight details I saved when I had to go to down to the Phoenix Airport. But it was reading Guy Kawasaki’s 14 Practical Ways to Use Evernote that some neurons began to snap, like: Photograph business cards. Rather than collecting a pile of business cards that you’ll never go through, photograph them with your iPhone and send [...]

I’ve been excited about the LiveScribe pen recorder since seeing it first at a meeting last January, and then magnified by the presentation by Joe Russo at the NMC 2009 Symposium on New Media & Learning. I’d not done much with it in a while, especially with the problems I had with the 1.0 Mac Desktop software, but noted a new version had been out a few weeks– and it (mostly) works well now. I have just uploaded by first “pencast” and the newest feature is the ability to embed this into another site. Right after I got the pen, I packed it for my trip to Vancouver for Northern Voice 2009. During my presentation on Say/Blog it in Pictures I did something smart- I gave it to someone who can actually draw well- Nancy White – who took some amazing notes in my LiveScribe notebook. But up to now [...]