Wow, AT&T.

So, last month I noticed I was sending a lot more texts than usual. I thought about it, and decided it was worth switching to the unlimited texting plan. More money, and I can't go back to the now-discontinued 1000 texts plan I had, but better than overcharges, I thought,eh? So I went online and switched.

AT&T promptly PRORATED the 1000 texts to 400, looked and saw I'd sent 700 so far, which meant 300 were over the prorated number, and charged me 10 cents a text for those 300 ($30). Plus the amount for the new unlimited texting plan (for the 400 texts I then sent).

Talk about customer-unfriendly bullshit. If I hadn't changed it, I would've sent a total of 1100 texts. Which would be $10 (my old monthly text charge) plus $10 for the extra texts ($20). Instead they charge $6 prorated for the old plan, $12 prorated for the new plan, and $35 for the "extra" texts, for a total of $53. Plus of course the extra amount they'll get in the future from the new plan.

I called and complained and they took off the extra charges, but seriously, it's bullshit like this that gets them a bad rep. GRRRR.

this happened to me when using a mifi. I got data overages up the wazoo.

Wow, meara, that's some major bullshit customer service.

this happened to me when using a mifi. I got data overages up the wazoo.

OOh, yeah, that would be rough. I have a company-issued mifi, and have zero idea what the plan is or what my usage is...hopefully they never get too mad about it!

These are interesting technology for the hard of hearing. They'd be cool if they worked for *life*.

So I clicked on Evernote's Trunk and got really excited for a hot second...and now not so much.

Wheat...chaff...all kinda looks the same to me from here, apart from Skitch (God, I love that program--I need it for Windows...). I thought that Kustom Note was a good thing, but it turned out to be topheavy, and then I couldn't open a note without an internet connection, so major loss.

In the end, I decide to make a notebook called Templates and just use bold and horizontal rules, and I still have a tidy record of my morning doctor's appointment. And I can see adding a couple more there.

Do any of you Evernote users have Trunk recs?

Or any other automation hookups? LeN, I know you like IFTTT--I'm now wondering about hooking that with some Evernote functionality to file some stuff more easily.

It was nice when I asked the doctor precisely what areas he'd injected and he told me he'd make a copy of the sheet he was using for his records, and I could just snap a picture with my tablet and drop it into into a note and know it would be OCRed as I walked out of the building....

I might not have a jetpack, but shit is still pretty cool...

I don't think I have other automation hookups besides IFTTT. I use gmail filters to send receipts to evernote automatically.

there are apps on the iphone and ipad that save to evernote - so I like that.

hmm. also: wappwolf will automate your dropbox (select a folder in dropbox and anything you drop in there will automatically upload to evernote).

technically then, you could use the chrome extension [link] for gmail (and has an iphone app) to drop email attachments in the designated folder and have wappwolf process them.

which is what I do.

there are apps on the iphone and ipad that save to evernote - so I like that.

I share from Android apps to Evernote, so I'm good there.

I hadn't even thought about IFTT being integrated with Evernote originally--I was just thinking of sending stuff to the Evernote email address. But I'm looking at it now to see what channels could be useful--it seems to have generic email, so that's good--Gmail isn't my primary.

Google calendar and dropbox might also have potential. I might be doing some experimentation in my free time tomorrow.

I was looking at tools yesterday that log into your electronic billing accounts and retrieve PDF bills, but I don't feel confident about the security--no overt reason, but I'm coming over a bit Liese, you know?

I don't really like having a lot of apps have access to my email. I would rather put in filters to automatically forward or use a special email addy.

I don't really have a way to do server side email forwarding. I do have a couple clients always open, but it's not the most reliable. At this point, I'd magine IFTTT wouldn't fun off with my shit, but they could sure get hacked--they can store credentials encrypted, but they need to decrypt to actually log into your email...