Ideas from Mark Stout

Regular readers know I use and write about Evernote and Keep. In fact, I am enchanted  with all notetaking apps. I'm constantly adding them to my phone to play with for a bit. In my mind,there are three tiers of notetaking apps Tier 1 : smart phone apps for iphone and/or Android coupled with both a web app and a client for PC and/or Mac Tier 2 : smart phone apps for iphone and/or Android with a web app Tier 3 : smart phone apps only  The apps store list the Tier 3 apps. And if you explore each one, you can determine which are really tier 2 or 1 apps. My question to you then, is do you know of  tier 1 or 2 note taking app I am not yet aware? I know about : Dropbox  Paper  Evernote  Keep  OneNote  Trello  Simplenote  Audionote  Also Zoho Notebook because apparently a web app is coming soon Which ones am I missing? You can comment here, or use this Google Form  to tell me. Once I have a go...

If you use your cell phone for business calls, you will want to set up a “filter” between your phone and your business contacts i.e. clients, customers, co-workers, supervisors. Google Voice is that filter.   How does Google Voice work? You receive a unique telephone number.  When someone calls that number, it seamlessly forwards to your cell phone.  When you place a call, your Google Voice number shows up on caller ID. Likewise, when someone sends a text to your GV number, it shows up on your phone. And when you text, it shows up as having come from your GV number. And the best thing:  it is free . What does Google Voice do? As mentioned above,when someone dials your GV number, it can ring your cell phone. It can also ring your landline too, if you have one. If your phone is lost or damaged, you can borrow someone else’s phone, or buy a cheap pay-as-you go phone and simply tell GV to forward calls to that phone until  you find or replace...

Every morning I wish my phone good morning.  Well, sort of.  After my shower, as I dress, I say "OK Google, good morning." It then wishes me a good day, tells me the time, temperature, weather forecast and information about my commute.  It then plays the BBS Minute newscast, and an NPR news summary. A couple months ago, the BBC came up very slow speaking. I thought it was just a case of wacky Brits. Maybe there wasn't enough news copy for a minute so they were being silly. Then NPR's came up, also slow. This has persisted through two monthly security updates and multiple restarts of the phone.  So today I'm putting in feedback to Google Assistant, and wanted this blog post to point at with more details then they might want in a feedback. I know it is 50% because this morning I recorded to Audiology on my PC the full two minutes of the BBC Minute playing through Google Assistant, and then again through Pocket Casts.  And yes, Pocket Casts is set to n...