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Tool – Evernote

October 23, 2009 by Toby Martini Leave a Comment

Evernote is simply a great tool! evernote

The simplest thing to say is that it’s like Notepad on the web, accessible from anywhere. But, it is WAY more than that.

Here’s some copy from their site: http://www.evernote.com

Capture Everything – Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe

Organize it – Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

Find anything fast – Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags. Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.

You can write text or clip it from any web site. You can put up videos or embed them from video sites. You can save pictures here from your computer or phone.

And then (and this is one of my favorite features!) if you do a search for something, it searches the text inside your pictures, too! Really great and fast Character Recognition means that you don’t have to transcribe something you see. You can just snap it and then search the text later. Awesome!

I use it for keeping track of trainings I do, clients information, as a daily journal, and for about a dozen other things.

It’s super easy to use, amazingly powerful, available on the web,  through a downloadable program, or through your phone. It interacts with Twitter, Twitpic, Pelotonics, Jott (Which is awesome and deserves its own write-up!) and others.

And the kicker is… it’s free!

Go get it now and easily organize your life.


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You won’t break it

October 19, 2009 by Toby Martini Leave a Comment

I had just posted on Facebook about how sometimes people are afraid of doing things on their computers; about how often they’re afraid to push a button because they think they’ll blow it up somehow or wipe the hard drive in one click.

I wrote advising people to stop being so afraid. It won’t bite you and you will not destroy it just like that.

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Then the next day I saw this Dilbert cartoon.

It cracked me up because I spend a lot of time and effort getting people over this fear.

Often people claim, “I’m just not computer literate” in much the same way that otherwise smart people will proudly trumpet their lack of math skills.

They can do that because it’s popular that both math and computers are Hard. And so, no matter how smart you may be, not knowing those things is quite OK. Society understands. Those things are HARD!

Well, can we all just give that up?

Computers are not hard. Math is elegant. (I swear that I used to be one of those proudly “innumerate”)

And, like I tell my kids, “Everything is easy if you know how.”

So, forget about, “Oh. it’s hard,” and just get it done!

I PROMISE that you won’t burn your hair off!

Filed Under: Inspiration, Personal, Your Brain

Naomi

October 19, 2009 by Toby Martini 2 Comments

This is a followup to a previous entry (IttyBiz) that I felt compelled to write because I wanted to point out something that Naomi does which I find to be quite amazing. Simple, yet smart!

Take a look at her Contact page: http://ittybiz.com/contact/ to see what I’m talking about.

I think it’s very cool that she puts her Phone Number up and invites you to call her. Who does that?!? Isn’t this the Internet? Aren’t we supposed to be anonymous?

So, today I called her to ask about becoming an affiliate because I couldn’t find info about it on her site. (EW! Shiny affiliate links! Go check out her stuff and make your business grow! Online Business School or Marketing 101).

We got to talk for a bit about her stuff and she gave me some advice about my stuff. Actual person-to-person communication. Nice.

What’s crazy is that she tells me she doesn’t get many calls, even from the people that signed up for the SpeakEasy, which has a large component of “Meet others online and work with them,” as well as her constant urging for us to call her with questions.

Are we afraid? Will she be mean OR are we just afraid that we’ll waste her time… because after all, who are WE to bother someone like that?

Give that up! Everyone is just a person and if they are literally inviting you to call, make contact!

So now, why don’t you connect with someone? Write an email to someone who’s blog you like. Find their contact info and give them a call. Who knows how it could change your business or theirs?

And thanks, Naomi!

Filed Under: Business, Inspiration, Personal

Tool – Roboform

October 19, 2009 by Toby Martini 4 Comments

roboformHere is a great piece of software that I highly recommend.

Roboform saves me lots of time in filling out forms online and it save a lot of mental stress remembering dozens of passwords.

The free version is fully functional,  but only remembers 10 passwords.

Trust me, you Will want to pay for the full version because it is really great!

Check out Roboform

Filed Under: Tools

Gardner on Entrepreneurs

October 15, 2009 by Toby Martini Leave a Comment

This is really great. I saw the movie, which was excellent, but this was my first exposure to the actual man. I am inspired.


Filed Under: Business, Inspiration, Personal

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