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Take a Minute to Collect Your Thoughts With Evernote
[This is a guest post by Shawn Miller, an Academic Technology Consultant with Duke's Center for Instructional Technology, where he usually blogs. Twitter @shawnj55 anytime.] During a Q&A after a...
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A Brief Word from an Evernote Convert
I take notes. A lot of notes. I take notes when I read, when I’m in meetings, when I’m listening to lectures, when I’m figuring out what I need to do any given day. In fact, if I ever tell you that I’m...
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The Redesigned Evernote iPhone App
Several of us at ProfHacker use Evernote (exhibit a, exhibit b, exhibit c), the popular external-brain software. It lets you put all a satisfyingly wide array of information all in one place, and...
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Evernote for Android (Now, with Sharing)
The note-taking and information-shepherding application Evernote is a ProfHacker favorite. Although I tend to use other apps for making quick notes on my phone (for example, Catch, Power Note, and...
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Skitch for Android
We’ve written about Skitch before here at ProfHacker. It’s a very handy application for quickly grabbing, annotating, and sharing screen captures. What makes Skitch worth mentioning again is the fact...
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Google Reader Alternatives
The photo in this post expresses what a lot of people seem to be feeling over recent changes to Google Reader (one of many Google tools that’s been mentioned frequently here at ProfHacker). A great...
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Note-taking on a Nook Color
In a recent post, I mentioned that I’m a new Nook Color user. Among the things I wanted to use it for (besides reading, of course!) were accessing class notes, and, equally if not more importantly,...
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Managing Meeting Notes with Meshin Recall
Meetings, meetings, meetings. They’re part of many people’s lives, and there’s no exception for those of us in academia. Often, when we attend meetings, we need to keep notes about them. One way, of...
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Updates to Evernote
That members of the team here at ProfHacker are fans of Evernote is hardly a secret; we’ve mentioned it on numerous occasions. It’s very useful for storing and searching whatever information you want...
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Found Knows Where Your Files Are
ProfHacker readers are unusually bright and well-organized people, obviously, so this probably only happens to me: You’re *certain* you saved a file, or at least saw it . . . but where? Did you save...
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A Quick Look at Penultimate 4
Evernote released Penultimate 4 late last week. (Unfortunately, it’s only available for iOS 6 at the moment, though support for iOS 5 is expected in the next update. Penultimate is currently not...
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Three Applications for Planning Classes
[This is a guest post by Doug Ward, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, where he is teaching a research and digital literacy course he developed called Infomania. You can...
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Evernote Webclipper Update
Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written a lot about favorite applications and services, including Evernote and GMail. We’ve also made note of several of our favorite browser extensions. One of my personal...
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Evernote Reminders Helps You Stay Current With Your Notes
One of the best things about Evernote is its ability to store lots of different kinds of digital information. It is sometimes even praised as a digital junk drawer for its versatility. The problem with...
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Digital lab notebooks: what works and what doesn’t?
This year in the advanced physics course I teach, I wanted to broaden student exposure to lab notebook keeping methods. Students could keep lab notebooks on traditional carbon copy paper, or they...
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Open Thread Wednesday: What Software Do You Refuse to Update?
I’ll be honest: there’s not much I like more than a good software update. When I get a pop-up telling me that there’s a new version available, I tend to click “Install and restart” faster than our new...
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Using Evernote in the Classroom
Last week, Jason asked readers how they work with their tablets. In the comments section, I noted that one of the ways I use it is for keeping my class notes. I keep those in Evernote. (Yes, we’ve...
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Evernote and Markdown: Two Tools that Work Great Together
Sometimes, I come across ideas for posts quite by accident. Early this afternoon (November 6), for instance, I was looking at the wiki that we use for scheduling our posts, trying to figure out my...
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Strategies for Going Paperless
The paperless life: it’s a dream for a lot of us here at ProfHacker, and we’ve certainly covered a fair number of paperless strategies for various aspects of academic life in this space before. I’m not...
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A Quick Look at OneNote for iPad
Back on February 19, Microsoft brought handwriting to the iPad. I’d been waiting for that for a long time. I love Evernote (as do several of my colleagues here at ProfHacker, as is clear from the...
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