From the Trenches

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• Evernote power-user tip - 8 useful keyboard shortcuts February 9, 2012
  The faster you can make Evernote work, and the more it works just the way you want it to, the more valuable it becomes.  Enter keyboard shortcuts - key combinations you can use so you don't have to slow down and reach for a mouse.  Here are the 8 shortcuts I've been using most often:1. tag list (ctrl + alt + t) - when inside a note, or when selecti […]
• mailing it in - blogging by email February 6, 2012
  Faster & easier.  I'm always on the lookout for ways to do things faster &/or easier.  It looks like blogger offers an option to email a blog post to my blog.  If that's true, I'll have one more option for publishing a blog post, especially from the field.As it stands now I compose most of my posts in Evernote, whether on my mobile pho […]
• Scalable workouts make working out with a partner more fun February 2, 2012
  Last weekend my wife & I worked out together. We're both frequent exercisers individually, but we have different bodies (obviously!) and tend to exercise differently. She's very flexible and has a stronger core and more definition than me - I don't think I could do 5 minutes of her 20 minute routine doing core work on the fitness ball. On […]
• This one thing can make or break your day January 25, 2012
  I've written about single tasking and single mindedness before - if you know what you're going to accomplish before you start, it's much easier to eliminate the pull of all those distractions. If you're just wandering through the motions, you might as well not even try...from Seth Godin:The first thing you do when you sit down at the comp […]