yeah, I tend to prefer Evernote, but I use Springpad for stuff like this. My problem right now is that Evenote has SO much stuff in it. I have been using it daily for years. I don't use tags. So Evernote is a bit of a hot mess.

I need to cull it.

I use tags when I enter notes, but I've never used them retrieving. I intend to create archival notebooks so that I don't lose content, but it's not right *there*, but I haven't wrapped my head around the best way to do that yet.

I have to say, I fucking love the OCR. I did a search for something when I was on the phone with tech support, and the hit was in the photo in one of my serial number notes.

Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?

IMO, none.

but I will let others weigh in. I hate Launchpad.

Unrelated Mountain Lion question: What is the advantage of the Launchpad over the previous Applications folder metaphor?

I assume to annoy me so much that I don't use it.

Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long. I do need to organize a little better, but it's not bad.

What I did was create an Archival notebook stack, and I push off completed stuff to that. So there's a notebook there that holds old errand lists, and there's one that has previous bands' tech riders. That one in particular is handy, because I don't need the info except when I'm throwing the show, but it's nice to be able to go back and say, hey is your rider the same as last year?

So if I have an iPhone 4 (not a 4s) is there any reason to upgrade to iOS 6? From everything I've heard, the new maps are a disaster and most if not all of the new features require the 4s in order to work (Siri, obviously, but also the flyover thing in Maps, most of the new camera stuff, Facetime over cellular, etc).

I upgraded my 4 to iOS, and it's working just fine and has some neat new features. Of course I'll be glad to get the new Google ap when it appears, but the Apple maps is fine for now. I would wait, though, Jessica, since it's not a massive change and you rely on the walking directions from Google.

I downloaded Hopstop, and so far, it looks like a more than adequate replacement for transit directions on Google Maps. If all goes well, I'll upgrade to iOS 6 in a few days.

Yeah, I love that part of Evernote. I use it all the damn time. Seriously, all day long.

It took me way too long to realise that Evernote was finally a document management tool that made sense for my own personal use--I've been working in the industry for 20 years now, and every adaptation of the things we installed in offices seemed fine for archival, but not that handy for stuff you wanted to use often. Scanning to PDF improved things, but Evernote's a way richer front end, and finally I feel like I can bridge the gap between paper and documents of electronic origin in a practical and portable way.

I hate Launchpad

I'm not in love either. I've found that some of my rotating wallpapers make those two dots that separate super special Apple applications from the hoi polloi invisible, and I just get exasperated at trying to start a program the "big" way and end up in Finder. Never mind uninstalling--it's not like the instructions I could find on the web were even consistent about that. Jeez.

Thanks for the Hopstop rec. Looks pretty good!