I just type in the URL!

If I could remember the 90 URLs in my art section alone, I'd be some sort of savant. But that folder, tech, cooking, productivity, shopping--they all get a lot of use. Many of the others are just so I don't show up in natter asking ill-formed questions. Especially useful when it's a page on a site I want to get back to, not just the site.

I have this fantasy that I will type all my oft used recipes that I only have in hard copy into some recipe mgmt program

Oh, I hear ya. But with the Evernote OCR, I've started taking pictures of the recipes in magazines and the packages, since they'll be searchable. It's kinda fucking cool.

I found a to do manager that sits over Google tasks and does recurring tasks, although not well enough for me. Still, it looked promising enough that I was annoyed at the omission.

And, oh...for some reason I installed My Effectiveness Habits on my stay-at-home tablet. I decided to have a look, and trying using it for something. I decided the "something" would be art, and whether or not I come back to it and use it as a guide, it did make me think stuff out, and plan a little--I suppose the most effective tool would then re-present them to you in some new context that would help with the quantum leaps. But just putting together the mission, influence, roles, and putting things in quadrants and then in relationship to each other was interesting.

And everything's cooler in an app than writing it on paper. It's true! I did an online survey.

What does that app do?

What does that app dp?

Very little. It's mostly a questionnaire on steroids. It helped me think systematically about what my goals are, and how to organise myself to achieve them. Like, say, identifying two roles in my art mission: student and artist. I can tie those to to potential risks I've identified, as well as work out what the tasks are for each role, and how urgent and important (or not!) they are.

It's not doing anything other than serving as a repository, but as an information architecture junkie, just framing the question gives me lots of ideas on how to approach solving it.

I'd *meant* to go in and start trying out a brainstorming tool (never actually used one), but the weird title ("My Effectiveness Habits) that made sense halfway through entering information caught my eye and so here we are.

It would be great if I actually started following any of that shit.

I use the evernote clipper for all of my recipes. All the magazines I get recipes from has all of their recipes online for free, so I do a quick web search and clip for anything I want to keep. And I get half or more of my recipes from blogs anyway. Even recipes I use from cook books can generally be found with a pointed web search, retyped and credited by some blogger or another. Its actually my primary ever note use.

Do you keep receipts in evernote?

Do you keep receipts in evernote?

Some big ticket purchases, yes. Because I throw out receipts almost compulsively, and that's my protection. The only receipts I have to track for taxes are taxi, and that's such a tiny scrap of paper...that fades...huh. Well, I just came to a conclusion. Don't mind me.

For some reason Time Capsule has decided it doesn't like any of my old backups and needs to start from scratch. I have backups all over the place, but it won't recognise any of them--I think it's a local decision of some sort, and I don't remember the dialogue box now that it's important.

I have no big beef with another full backup--it's just that the estimate has never been under 2 months, and now it's closer to a year. And this is over the wire connected to a fast ethernet switch.

I need to go cycle through my various backups again to see if it really needs to start from scratch. Because I have no idea how to troubleshoot that other problem.

Oh! I had another Evernote question--what extensions do you use? I use Food from time to time (usually travelling), and I had used a form maker, but it had shitty cross device compatibility, which pretty much invalidates it from regular use. But I haven't been back to look in a while.

I don't use any. Food is kind of useless for me as I'm not a very avid food journaler and when I do journal I always want to include different info than Food assumes I will include. I don't network much so People is useless too. I was trying to make my own coffee journal template but it is hard to work templates in Android which is my main Evernote platform.

I used Food to document Jamaican food, because it has emotional meaning to me. I wouldn't call myself a food journaller. Fuck, the other use was trying to remember which apples taste like what, and which yoghurts I preferred. With the free flow text box I just put in whatever, but mostly I was charmed by the way it presented the photos, because...there are only a couple different angles you can take apple pictures from. But it was all Instagram and shit.

I see Evernote Moleskin journals for sale at my art store, which surprised me. If we were allowed to use Evernote for work, I would use fake functionality like that more (the camera allows you to take multiple pages in one batch now).

I do use Evernote Food, but I mostly use it to take notes assuming I'll be back again (e.g. remember to order the salad with dressing on the side; I didn't like the potatoes, get bread next time).

Yeah--I use it primarily as a memory trigger--do have this again, and you hated that. But at a general level.

And Jamaica is just so I can look at the food and sigh, and also to help me communicate with foreigners.

Looking at the Android Evernote plugins here, and of course! I use Skitch all the time. But I use the old version on my Mac, because version 2 was a downgrade in terms of functionality (and much like I'm arguing with Opera on Twitter now, I made sure to tell them I wasn't a happy customer). Andmade Share is great--better than the default Android share function. Lets you pick multiple destinations, for a start. And better Evernote integration. And while I used Dolphin I used the add-ons, but I'm Opera now. Actually, if I do have to clip from Android, I go back to Dolphin.

I'm gonna go peek at some of the others, but make sure I start from the mobile device end, because I hit the same form wall that Gris did, and it's annoying if you do that after having expended energy. However, I did find that Evernote has a bit of form functionality itself--I've broken my doctor and ER visit templates into sections, and when I tap on them it opens just that bit in a section at the bottom of the screen. I don't need fancy form stuff. Just that is fine for now.

What is a good inexpensive way to record landline phone calls?

Also, separate question, if the person consents on the recording at the beginning of the recording, that is sufficient legal CYA yes? "As we discussed a moment ago, I will be recording this interview for quotation in _ magazine. Is that still OK?" And if the other person says "Yup" then we are golden.