Birds, Energy Drink and Evernote
Jan. 23rd, 2010 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uhhuhlexI'm a little bit embarrassed to be writing this at 11.30am when I have an essay deadline coming up. Yes, I'm just out of bed. I couldn't sleep last night and there are a few possible factors a.) My flat is super warm b.) There were birds tweeting (although not on twitter) at 2.30am c.) I'd had more than a weeks allowance of caffeine in energy drinks and tea yesterday. d.) Stress - I'd don't do nerves in any way, shape or form, but I get really stressed and sometimes don't even realize it.
In essay season I become a veritable hermit. I'm more than a little cranky, the flat is an absolute tip (think 'oh, there is carpet under there?) and hyped up totally on a combination of tea and cheap energy drinks.
One thing that has cheered me up immensely is Evernote. I mentioned this before, but my goodness does this application meet my needs. The GUI is nicely designed, and so far I've had no glitches in running it at all. When I see something interesting that I like I either take a snapshot of it, drag the text or save the whole page. Once in there I save it in various notebooks - some work related, some study related, some interest related and one for 'funny things my friends have said'. I tag them and search them, etc.
However, the best feature I've found yet is the ability to search for text within images. As part of my course we often get scans of chapters from books or journal articles as pdf files. I annotate these in Preview with boxes because I can't highlight the text in them. I experimented last night and dragged an article in, waited for it to sync it to the server (where it must scan the images for text), waited another minute for it to sync back from their server, and voila - a searchable .pdf where I can copy and paste the text therein! (For an example, see here)
Back to the books now.
In essay season I become a veritable hermit. I'm more than a little cranky, the flat is an absolute tip (think 'oh, there is carpet under there?) and hyped up totally on a combination of tea and cheap energy drinks.
One thing that has cheered me up immensely is Evernote. I mentioned this before, but my goodness does this application meet my needs. The GUI is nicely designed, and so far I've had no glitches in running it at all. When I see something interesting that I like I either take a snapshot of it, drag the text or save the whole page. Once in there I save it in various notebooks - some work related, some study related, some interest related and one for 'funny things my friends have said'. I tag them and search them, etc.
However, the best feature I've found yet is the ability to search for text within images. As part of my course we often get scans of chapters from books or journal articles as pdf files. I annotate these in Preview with boxes because I can't highlight the text in them. I experimented last night and dragged an article in, waited for it to sync it to the server (where it must scan the images for text), waited another minute for it to sync back from their server, and voila - a searchable .pdf where I can copy and paste the text therein! (For an example, see here)
Back to the books now.
