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Turn Old VHS Cases Into Retro Spiral-Bound Notebooks
9:00AM Lisa Hoover | You spent good money on that huge library of VHS tapes, but now DVDs are where it’s at. If you decide to get rid of the tapes, hang on to their boxes and repurpose them to make these wicked spiral notebooks. More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman |
It’s no surprise that when Google decided to host a “miniconf” about Google Wave at linux.conf.au, company staff encouraged the use of Wave itself to take notes on the sessions. But while there’s a lot to recommend Wave for this process, there’s one big reason why it’s not yet up to the task. More »
Why Google Wave Doesn’t Quite Work For Conference Notes
12:30PM Angus Kidman |
It’s no surprise that when Google decided to host a “miniconf” about Google Wave at linux.conf.au, company staff encouraged the use of Wave itself to take notes on the sessions. But while there’s a lot to recommend Wave for this process, there’s one big reason why it’s not yet up to the task. More »
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Scribbly Takes Notes And Emails Them To You
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Adobe AIR: Note-taking application Scribbly lives in your system tray and lets you quickly write notes or reminders to yourself, and then will email them to you with a single click. More »
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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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