Everyday Systems

[reinhard]

Evernote is an amazing (free) piece of software for (multimedia!) note taking in the "cloud" (with local copies on your machine). It's got both desktop and mobile versions, so you can blaze away at the keyboard at home or yammer into your ipod while urban rangering and it all gets tucked away in the same place. It's also got a web version so you can blaze away on your mom's computer without having to install anything.

http://evernote.com/

It's probably the most useful thing since Dropbox (which was the most useful thing since Netflix) to emerge on the net in recent years.

Among many other things, it fits in with audiodidact marvelously.

I just started using it a couple of days ago, so I'll post more details on how I'm using it to support my everyday systems etc. after I get a few more weeks under my belt.

One piece of advice I have already is don't obsess about classifying stuff into notebooks and with tags. Just start spewing notes and see how they cluster. Then organize if necessary.

Reinhard

[KCCC]

Hm... I have an account, but haven't really figured out how to use it well. The info that I can use it on my iPod is helpful.

In other "general tech news," I just saw this on Slate, which talks about another site I'm on (for knitting) that I think is the BEST designed site I've ever seen. The analysis is interesting, but one thing they miss is the elegant way the discussion boards function.

http://www.slate.com/id/2298584/