Stepping Back from Social Media To Take Time to Write and Reduce Stress

Like all of us, my world was thrown into chaos in March when libraries began measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. March 12th was the last day I was "in the office." I have a chronic cough, which was (understandably), making people nervous, and I could work from home, so I started before the … Continue reading Stepping Back from Social Media To Take Time to Write and Reduce Stress

My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 5. Evernote

I love Evernote, I've even written about it before, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not using it to it's full potential. I primarily use Evernote to take clips notes from my browser. By highlighting a section of a blog post or article online I can "clip" it and save it into Evernote. … Continue reading My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 5. Evernote

My “Perfect” System for Storing, Organizing, Reading and Annotating PDFs

I have been looking for the perfect pdf reader for a long time. You may remember that earlier this year I returned the Kindle DX after it failed to live up to my requirements. Here is what I was looking for: ability to highlight ability to make notes ability to export those notes & highlights (I … Continue reading My “Perfect” System for Storing, Organizing, Reading and Annotating PDFs

Why I’m Returning the Kindle DX or My Continued Search for the Prefect PDF Reader

Update 3/21/2012 I have since purchased an iPad specifically to read PDFs and wrote a post on the system I'm using - My “Perfect” System for Storing, Organizing, Reading and Annotating PDFs There is nothing exceptional or particularly exciting about my returning the Kindle DX . But I've been talking about how much I want … Continue reading Why I’m Returning the Kindle DX or My Continued Search for the Prefect PDF Reader

My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 3. Bit.ly

This is post 3 of 10 in my 10 favorite tools series. I regularly get asked how I “do it all” so I’ve put together some of handy tools that (in addition to hard work) help me do it. I covered how I use Google tools and my tools & strategy for Twitter last week. This … Continue reading My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 3. Bit.ly

My Favorite Tools in Ten Installments: 2. Twitter

This is post 2 of 10 in my 10 favorite tools series. I regularly get asked how I "do it all" so I've put together some of handy tools that (in addition to hard work) help me do it. I covered the many ways I use Google last week, this week its Twitter! Now that … Continue reading My Favorite Tools in Ten Installments: 2. Twitter