The behind the scenes videos for Evernote started more than a year ago. This is insane…
Note taking vs Everything Buckets
I sort of think of Evernote differently than I used to.
As far as a strict note taker, I’m not sure I have a huge need for that these days.
I do have small notes I need to occasionally take, and any app is suited to this task.
The issue for me is I try to find the best “everything bucket” that also takes notes.
I bounce around among most of the top ones.
Evernote: been a user since 2008. Started becoming weary a couple of years ago. Not sure I like the direction they are going. And wherever they are going, it’s taking FOREVER
Keep It: Great iOS citizen, but, for me at least, always had slow sync issues. Maybe because it only allows iCloud sync?
DEVONthink: Amazing Mac app, but very heavy duty. Search is probably the best of any app, but again, it can be so heavy. The iOS app is ok…. Supposedly they are working on an update to improve the note taking experience, but they are a small company and move kind of slow. I found iCloud sync to be slow so switched to Dropbox. It seems to be much faster, but still not as fast as EN (IMHO). I really like the cloud first nature of EN. DT and DTTG do both sync, but they are very much not cloud first or cloud native products if that makes sense.
I know open podcasts etc…. but I really love the JRE. I may move the family to Spotify this fall 🤯
Made a freezer inventory in @notionhq as you do….
Open spaces at the park
My Todoist year in review. I struggle with task managers still. Been off of work for 10 days and using mostly Things 3, but I go back to work tomorrow, which means a PC… enter todoist. These year in reviews are pretty cool…. though not sure if truly useful or not?
Been playig around with Notion a lot. I imported my entire EN. As a note taking app, I would say it’s superior to EN. But my biggest use these days for EN is for document storage. For that use case, I would say Notion is not as good. Thoughts?
everything bucket update
I for now have settled on google drive being the central everything bucket where I share documents with my wife.
The search is so good (surprise, surprise) and it’s so easy to share a huge folder of documents with my wife.
I know people aren’t crazy about the privacy implications but that isn’t too much of a concern for me.
I need to write a blog post or do a short podcast on this.
AirPods Pro
I had (and sold) the newest Sony noise cancelling headphones which were very good. The problem was that I hardly used them.
The AirPods pro make it so that I benefit from noise canceling almost every day.
It’s crazy being in the mall and that sensation when you put the second AirPod pro in your ear and the noise just fades away.
Ok. Finally was able to get AirPods Pro. These things are awesome!
May switch to google calendar for my wife and I…. the problem is that GSuite annoyingly still doesn’t allow a shared “family” calendar.
This is comedy gold.
Happy Holidays!
How do people that use iOS heavily rely on gmail. It’s just awful on iOS. I’m been using a different standards based provider and finding the experience much better. Thoughts?
Can’t decide between the Synik 30 or 22?!
Today I decided to go back to FastMail. Gmails iOS support is just too bad.
Google just doesn’t want to make 1st class apps for iOS do they?
🎧 —> 🎒
Today I sold my Sony noise canceling headphones. They were great, but I heard through the grape vine I may be getting AirPods Pro for 🎄. I use my current AirPods literally everyday, and I’ve used my new Sony headphones only a handful of times.
With the money from the headphones, I’m looking for a new backpack. Right now I’m leaning towards the Tom Bihn Synik 22
Second weekend ina row my weekly review got done… lets keep this going!
Anyone tried remember the milk lately?
Might sell my Sony noise canceling headphones and get AirPods pro
I actually did a weekly review in Omnifocus for maybe the second time ever. I know it might by cliche at this point, but it’s amazing how helpful it actually was. It’s a practice I want to strive to keep doing.
May move back to GSuite for email.
Anyone else seeing gmail labels not syncing correctly on iOS mail on iOS 13?
#gmail
I finally found it. Myke’s iOS 13 bug is just a feature that Merlin developed almost 10 years ago!
On the iOS 13 share sheet, frequent contacts are suppose to be listed at the top. It’s not on mine.
Does it take time before it learns who to put there?