Imagine an application that holds and organizes all of your important documents, thoughts, to do’s, and cheat sheets – all in one place, accessible from any device? Enter Evernote. This genius application makes accessing this information much easier. Here are just a few awesome things about the application:

• Besides being a centralized repository for accessing your documents, there are numerous ways to keep things organized in an orderly fashion. For instance, you can setup multiple  “notebooks” and use them as categories – i.e. home, office, projects, fun, ideas, etc.
• Syncronization to devices. Access documents from your phone, computer, iPad … The paid version (only $5/mo) allows you to view your notebooks when you’re offline as well.
• A spiffy “tag” feature allows you to enter key words that will help you find information inside the application in the future.
• It accepts multiple file types.  You can save MS Office documents, emails, pdf’s, audio, video, pictures, etc.
• The Web Clipper allows you to clip web pages from your browser that interest you.  It makes saving web pages a cinch. Drag and drop the clipper to your browser, or view add-in/plugins to use with your favorite browser.
• When you’re searching within Evernote, you can search by:
  • date created
  • date last modified
  • notes containing certain words
  • the type of document.

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Are you ever challenged with staying focused to a task at hand? Thank goodness we’re not alone! While there’s been some grandiose ideas and plans for this site, we realize it’s been a full two months since a posting. Argghh. After stepping back to get some clarity, here are a few goals for the coming week that we’re going to try to achieve.

Information overload. Do you ever feel like between our smart phones, the internet, TV, and other media there is never a break? We are bombarded with information constantly through different mediums. There’s a false sense that we will miss something important if we don’t look or answer an email or phone call. Lately, this has been the case here. Instead of focusing on the task at hand, we’ve been focused on: (more…)

Ah, at last. What a great feeling it is to finally have this website updated and rebranded with a new look and feel, blog and social media links. It’s been long overdue I’m afraid, but thanks to the powerful capabilities of WordPress and WooThemes, the time to launch has been much faster than in the past. With some design tweaking, this website better represents what and who we are, and where we are going from here. It’s very exciting not to be spending time coding from scratch like in the old days.

If you are in a similar situation of wanting something new for your website, I highly recommend considering a move to WordPress (be sure to download the program from the .org link here, vs. .com so that you can host it on your selected server). There are tons of free and paid themes available that allow you to get the look and feel that you’re looking for. Of course, while we’re partial to WooThemes for their great designs, support, back-end platform and ease of use, there are many other popular ones out there. Check out frugal Theme and Headway as well – or do a google search for wordpress themes. While there are a lot of free themes out there (WooThemes has a few), we would highly recommend upgrading to a paid theme. The extra capabilities that you pay extra for will save you a lot of time when customizing your theme – really!

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