Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “organization”
A random email from a community member sparked a fascinating conversation on Facebook about where to store recipes. Here’s the quick reference guide to all the ideas: Original Note: “I have long used (years) an app called Pepperplate to store my recipes. Pepperplate has been a free app that was supported by advertising. This month, they have decided to reinvent …
The first official draft of the new book arrived Wednesday! To celebrate, I asked people on our Facebook page which sections they wanted to see in an excerpt. Everyone chimed in to choose their favorite sections, and I took all the suggestions and put them into one super excerpt. Download and enjoy! NOTE: There. Are. Errors. Plenty of them. We …
Giving Docs Online Will Creation for Charity Planned Giving Campaigns While I was working on The BIGGER Book of Apps a couple of weeks ago, I stopped in the middle of a sentence in the section about getting your affairs in order because I was excited to craft my very first Last Will and Testament. It took me two minutes. …
When Mom died, she had emails in her inbox that went unanswered because we didn’t have any passwords. No one likes to talk about passwords before we pass away, but these tools can help make things easier for your loved ones to manage your digital life. Everplans End-of-Life Document and Information Organizer You’ll be doing your family members a favor …
You can call it kitchen table spam, birdcage liners or plain old junk mail. But whatever you name the piles of catalogs and mailers that fill up your mailbox, you probably don’t want it in your house. These tools help you dump the junk snail mail and find your kitchen table again. PaperKarma: Junk Mail Eliminator After some ups and …
I’m just going to say it straight out: I don’t like business card scanners in the slightest. To me they’re much more work than they’re worth. I get piles of cards at the same time after a presentation, and it’s a waste of my time to scan each one and check the transcription and then put my cursor in those …
Ok, you guys. This is really getting weird. When I moved to Nashville, I used an app called Sortly to organize my packing. I took pictures of everything I was packing so I could organize it in the app and find it later. I packed a whole bunch of framed pictures, which included several shots of my cute nephews. Today …
You guys are brilliant! Monday I asked some of you what your best tools were for staying focused, and more than 100 people chimed in. Here are three top categories of focus tools you’re using. I’ll be covering more in upcoming NerdWords. ADD YOURS BELOW! Let’s keep the conversation going. Music Tools Many folks mentioned they use music to block out …
Oh you guys… I have to apologize. We get questions about apps all the time, and here’s what happens: I see the question. I ponder the question. I start looking up the answer to the question (click here to see how crazy that process is). Life happens… The presentation starts The cat jumps on my lap The plane starts boarding …
Last week one of my readers told us about how much she loves the Rocketbook Everlast Notebook, and you guys loved it! So I bought a whole pile of them to review. Bottom Line: if you take handwritten notes or draw things you need to save or share, this is TOTALLY worth the money. Rocketbook at a Glance Rocketbook bills …
Hey, guys! I’m giving away the Rocketbook Color notebook that I tried out, along with the whiteboard crayons I purchased to use with it. If you entered last week, you can enter again for two chances to win! Loading…
Just over a year ago, Amazon’s Alexa came to live with us in the form of the original Amazon Echo device. Since then, I’ve gone all in with Alexa, purchasing teeny tiny Echo Dots for different rooms plus an adorable little Echo Spot with a touchscreen face for my nightstand. Here’s the video review I recorded last February for the …
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