Ideas from Mark Stout

With Evernote 10, scripting is no longer available for Evernote, at least in Windows.  The application ENScript is no longer available.   I never used it much, but I enjoyed dinking around with in.  I had a little AutoIt script that could create individual notes for each line of a spreadsheet.  I wrote about it a couple of times, the most recently here . Evernote has been purchased by a new company. Their intent for future Evernote development is unclear. I don't know if scripting will be a part of it. I was reviewing the post mentioned above, and realized the ability to create notes from a spreadsheet could almost be done as well using Visual Basic for Applications in Excel.  A simple VBA app could generate a a text file and save it to your Evernote Upload directory. What wouldn't show up is a title and tags.   Instead of creating an entire script processing utility Evernote could allow simple markup to happen in the note. Something like <tit...

I mentioned in my last update how I’d built my new computer. With the seeming adoration we all have for laptops, we seem to have fallen out of love with desktops. Why did I go with a desktop? And why I built my own and not just buy? Some people work from their couches, beds, on travel etc. and those people need a laptop. Is that you? Or is your laptop setup at your desk and never moves? If that is the case then a desktop might be better. A desktop doesn’t need the many dongles to hook five devices to one USB port many laptops have now. They come with a plethora of USB ports, and can support multiple monitors easily. Desktops often are cheaper that a similar equipped laptop. Makes sense, it more expensive to build smaller components into a tight case for a laptop. And building your own desktop reduces the price even more. And it isn’t as hard as one might think. There is no soldering involved. You not building so much as assembling various components together. You get to pick your own c...

My nine-year-old laptop died and I dithered about how to replace it. Ultimately, I chose to build a desktop. Back in 2014 my adult son and I built a gaming PC for him, so I had some experience. And about the time my laptop died, we needed to upgrade the motherboard, processor, memory, and power supply in his machine. You could say I was in the groove. Most of the hot button items I normally needed a computer, I did reasonably well on my phone. I could pay bills, update spreadsheets, and certainly surf the web (does anyone say “surf the web” anymore?) I had read for years that in many third world nations without a telephone infrastructure, smartphones had been a major change for many communities. Farmers would get current stock prices, people could do banking for often the first time, order goods, and obtain micro loans, all on their phone. As someone who has always used a computer, I wondered how that all worked. Having primarily a phone taught me a lot. Of course, we have multiple...