note taking

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Notalon Helps You Take Cornell-Style Notes

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac/Linux: If our talk about Cornell-style note taking caught your eye and you wished there was an easy to use application for taking them, you’ll want to check out Notalon. More »
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Zoho Notebook Gets Search, Moving And Export

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Not one to stop tweaking and improving, Zoho’s integrated notebook tool recently added universal search, HTML import and export, and tools to move your notes around between notebooks and pages. More »
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Five Classic Ways To Boost Your Note-Taking

8:00AM Adam Pash | If your note-taking skills are suffering from rigor mortis, now’s as good a time as any to throw a new technique into the mix. Let’s take a look at some new and old tools for improving your ballpoint repertoire. More »
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Get Better Advice By Taking Notes

7:00AM Adam Pash | We’d like to think that the people we’re paying to give us advice (like doctors, for example) would offer the same helpful advice no matter what, but reader citizenkahn writes in to suggest that if you really want to get good advice, pull out a notebook and start taking notes—a phenomenon he’s dubbed the Moleskine effect. More »
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WebNotes Highlights, Sticky-Notes And Organises Web Research

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | WebNotes, a research tool developed by, and for, serious researchers, allows anyone to highlight and add sticky notes to web pages and have those notes instantly added to a web-based research file. For anyone flying through HTML pages like so much paper, it could be really handy. More »
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QuotePad Is A Tiny, Portable Note Manager

6:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Portable note-taking application QuotePad creates searchable notes from any text on your screen, and even saves the original link if it’s from a web page. More »
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MindRaider Organises And Visualises Any Note Style

1:10AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: MindRaider wants to be the place you stash all your sudden thoughts, organizational notes, and inter-connected ideas. That’s because it offers links, visualisations, and other tools to help you make sense of it all. More »
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Evernote Web Clipper Makes Full-Page Grabs Easy

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Evernote, our favourite free non-paper note-taking app, just made it easier to stash entire web pages in your extended cloud brain. The Web Clipper too now includes a checkbox for “Clip full page,” and it remembers if you like to do that sort of thing on your next click. Evernote also responds to users who get a bit tired of typing in their credentials every few days, extending the Web Clipper’s cookie memory to a week (assuming you don’t wipe out your cookies sooner). How does Evernote’s bookmarklet play into your note-taking system? Evernote More »
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Zoho, Evernote Open Up Google Notebook Importers

12:10AM Kevin Purdy | As Google Notebook dwindles into non-development, more services open up to catch all your web-captured data. One week after startup Ubernote jumped in, Evernote and Zoho Notebook arrive on the scene. More »
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CintaNotes Is A Web-Clip-Friendly Notes Manager

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: CintaNotes is lightweight, web-friendly portable manager for your notes and web text clippings. CintaNotes offers basic cataloging of notes by date and tags, but offers convenient supports URL retrieval from Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. In other words, if you clip a paragraph from a web site that has links, the links will remain active when CintaNotes picks it up. You can also configure CintaNotes to vanish to your system tray and activate from a hot key anywhere you want to call it up. CintaNotes is freeware, Windows only. If CintaNotes doesn’t fit the bill, check out the Hive Five winners for best note-taking tools. CintaNotes [via Freeware Home] More »