Guides, tips and tricks, and advice on how to use tablets, phones, and computers to replace paper journals and diaries.
If you have been reading my blog for very long, then you will know that my biggest gripe with the iPad is it’s lack of handwriting recognition. Why on earth would Apple have invested so much into the design of the glorious Apple Pencil and leave out the thing it would be most useful for? […]
If you have wished that Outlook or Gmail worked and looked more like a paper planner, give Artful Agenda a try.
The new magic of digital notes is the ability to scale up or down to your heart’s content without loosing visual acuity. Microsoft’s OneNote has always been able to achieve this feat but lacks some of the creative features bullet journal users covet. Enter Zoomnotes, an iOS application from Deliverance Software Ltd. Zoomnotes has the […]
I spend hours working in Microsoft OneNote everyday. It’s my go to tool for planning, documentation, and notes. I’ve been using it since the beginning and have evangelized its benefits far and wide. If OneNote has a weakness (not saying it does LOL) it probably lies in being too complicated for some jobs. Enter Plumbago, […]
As I concluded in the previous article in this series, my preferred application for notes, brain-dumps, sketches, and even password management is OneNote. Microsoft has been perfecting it’s OneNote software for almost 15 years, and it shows. As a user of all compute devices, I appreciate that they make a version for Apple (iOS and […]
In the same way that computerized word processing displaced type-writers; many people are making the switch from paper journals and diaries to digital ones. Computer based journaling offers several key benefits over paper: backups, sharing, multimedia, and security options are all easily accessible options in an application but difficult to achieve in paper. Apple’s tablets […]
Say hello to my little friend. The 2018 iPad and Apple Pencil.
If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ll know that I am hip deep in the process of converting my spouse from an iPad to a Windows tablet and from paper to digital journaling. So far, we’ve chosen the perfect tablet and set up the best windows profile for pen enabled machines. Now it’s […]
Ever wondered how pro’s get such great looking user interfaces? In this article I’ll show you exactly how I setup a Windows computer; from the apps I install, to the settings I use for my Pen and the UI tweaks I make to simplify daily use of a computer.
My wife has been looking at the iPad Pro devices for the last few months. She’s seen what I’m able to do with my Surface Pro and Galaxy Note pen enabled devices and has become interested in converting her coloring and more importantly her journaling to a digital format. She uses her Hobonichi Planner and […]
