Speaking for Evernote at DiGi

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I was pleasantly surprised when I was contacted by Tiang from Evernote Singapore to be one of three people to give a brief presentation on how we use Evernote for different aspects of our life. I was quite to happy to do a topic on productivity with Evernote as that’s mainly what I use Evernote for.

I was fortunate enough to share the stage with David from BlogJunkie, as well as Sara from JewelPie, and I learnt quite a few things from them.

I’d post my presentation here, but I tend to keep my presentations pretty blank, basically with one line and one image per slide and elaborate from there, so it wouldn’t make much sense. I guess the next best would be a link to a previous post I did on how I use Evernote. I hope it helps.

In case anybody is curious enough, here are some of the pictures from the event:

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How To: Unable to send to Evernote from Pocket after a password reset

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If you’re reading this, there’s a high chance that you already know of the recent situation where Evernote required all users to reset their passwords.

While it was a minor inconvenience to change my password and reconnect all my Evernote services, I soon discovered a more irritating side effect: All my third-party apps that accessed Evernote would no longer be able to interact with Evernote.

The cause of this is pretty obvious, as a new password means that these services that were originally able to authenticate with Evernote weren’t able to do so anymore. For some reason, I didn’t find the process of de-linking and re-linking Evernote from my Pocket account as easy as I would have liked. I did find the official response from Pocket, but I think it should be a little simpler, so I’ve posted a few steps here to help whoever who prefers a visual answer. Continue reading →

Childhood Snacks

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Have you ever been so in love with some snack when you we’re a kid?

You’d bug your parents to buy it whenever you could, and you’d buy it whenever you had money.

And then someday, because your parents deemed it unhealthy or it wasn’t being sold anymore, it disappeared from your life.

You searched high and low, far and wide. You did everything you could back then, underage, without a credit card, and the Internet.

Then someday, after you’ve grown up, you discover it. Sitting there, on a shelf in a store, almost as if the past never happened.

Overjoyed,armed with a credit card, no parents in sight, you buy it, and a few more.

Getting home, You sit down, looking at the packaging, rolling back the years, tear open the snack, take a bite, and…

…it sucks!

Goodbye old friend. Age now separates us. While I now have the money and means for us to be together, you and I will just be a fond memory of the past.

Goodbye

Goodbye

DocScanner For iOS: My Portable Scanner

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I love scanning stuff

I’m a big fan of scanning things in order to reduce clutter. Some might argue that I’m merely converting physical clutter into digital clutter, but that’s a debate for another day. I’ve tried various methods to always have a portable scanner with me, including getting a non-branded version of the IRIScan Book 2. In the end, I always settled with using my iPhone’s camera for taking quick photos of stuff, and keeping the documents that needed to be scanned by an actual scanner until I got to my fiancée’s house, which had a Canon MX 426 multifunction printer.

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How I Use Evernote

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I’m a bit of an Evernote junkie, so a lot of my friends tend to ask me how I use Evernote. I’ll be the first to admit, aside from using it as a digital memo pad, the uses of it aren’t obvious from the get go. It was only after experimenting with different methods and reading how different people used it that I started to use Evernote more.

I always stress that there isn’t one specific way to use Evernote, but I just wanted to list out some of the ways that I use it, which might be insightful to some, and more importantly help me answer the question of how I use Evernote when it’s posed to me.

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Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine arrives in Malaysia

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A couple of months ago, Evernote announced its partnership with Moleskine, giving birth to the Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine. While you’d think that the goal of a service such as Evernote would be to make paper obsolete, they actually compliment each other pretty well. One thing that surprised me is that the notebook actually made it all the way to Malaysia, a pleasant surprise indeed.

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