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Samsung Galaxy S II – NFC Tags

by Brandon on March 7, 2012

Back in November, I purchased my first Android device—the Samsung Galaxy S II (named best smartphone at the 2012 GSMA Mobile Awards). The Galaxy S II supports NFC, and I recently decided to take advantage of this feature. I ordered some cheap NFC Tags from here (check out their Twitter page for some good deals), and they arrived in the mail this week. More »

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Getting Things Done with Evernote–Collaborative Projects

by Brandon on March 1, 2012

Today, while thinking about the best way to handle collaborative projects, I realized I needed to make a minor change to my GTD with Evernote system (I have edited the post on Notebooks, the post on Saved Searches, and the third post on Projects to reflect the changes). More »

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Getting Things Done with Evernote—Projects Part 3: Templates + Workflow

February 20, 2012

Now that you’ve learned to create templates in Evernote for both Windows and Mac, it’s time to incorporate the templates into your GTD workflow.

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Getting Things Done with Evernote—Projects Part 2: Note Templates for Mac

February 19, 2012

In the last post I discussed how to create note templates in Evernote for Windows. Now let’s discuss how to do it on a Mac.

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Getting Things Done with Evernote—Projects Part 1: Note Templates for Windows

February 19, 2012

I’ve been promising this post for a while now, but before we get down to the nitty-gritty, we need to learn how to create note templates in Evernote for Windows (The process is different if you’re on a Mac. I’ll cover note templates in Evernote for Mac in the next post…stay tuned).

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Google+

November 9, 2011

My Simple Curiosity now has a Google+ Brand Page. I’ll be updating the site so you can connect to the page directly from the sidebar, but for now you can check it out here.

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Getting Things Done with Evernote—The Secret Sauce: Saved Searches

November 1, 2011

Now that we’ve built the framework of our GTD system with notebooks and tags, it’s time to make some lists. To make lists, we’ll be using Evernote’s ‘Saved Search’ feature.

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Google Reader—A New Look & Google+ Integration

November 1, 2011

Yesterday, Google rolled out a new design for Google Reader. Google+ integration was also added. I recently wrote a post about customizing Google Reader’s appearance. The CSS tweaks mentioned in that post still seem to be working with the new layout. Here’s a screenshot:

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Getting Things Done with Evernote—Tags

October 11, 2011

In the last post we created notebooks; now it’s time to look at tags. There are two main categories of tags: tags for Reference Materials or Someday/Maybes and tags for Next/Action items. Before taking an in-depth look at each of these categories, let’s talk a bit about creating and organizing tags.

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Getting Things Done with Evernote–Notebooks

September 29, 2011

Now that you have Evernote installed and ready to go, I’m going to walk you through setting up the notebooks we will be using to GTD with Evernote. I will be using Evernote for Windows, but the process should be similar if you are on a Mac or the web.

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