Saturday 3 December 2011

Breakfast time

From Evernote:

Breakfast time

Using Evernote again to blog from my HTC, so please excuse any dodgy formatting or misplaced images!

If you're ever in Leamington Spa before midday then you should seriously consider a visit to Alfonso's Place, on Station Approach. They do the best fried breakfasts in Leamington, and in fact one if the best I've had anywhere. I tend to go for the Breakfast Supreme:


Which is awesome, and looks a bit like this:


Obviously, it's not something that one should eat everyday, but it's a great occasional treat! If you're in the area you should definitely try it. After 11 at the weekends it can get very busy, so if you arrive later on in the breakfast shift then you may need to wait a while.

Alfonso's also doubles as a Portuguese restaurant in the evenings, so if you fancy some salt cod or bitoque and it's later in the day then give it a go then too.
  

Friday 2 December 2011

This is new...

From Evernote:

This is new...

Ok, I'm trying an experiment. I've just started seriously using Evernote to work on my MSc thesis.

It's great! Combined with Swype on both my Android devices I can easily jot notes, take screenshots and link in references as I go along. I'm wondering why I never used it before. It's going to change my life.

Here is a photo of my desktop client showing how I've used Evernote to pick up relevant parts of my reading list.

From the photo you can see I've tagged the note with relevant keywords, and inserted images where I want to quote equations.

What else?  Oh yes, I wrote this entirely in Evernote as a note and then sent it to Blogger by email through the "share" feature :-)

Oh and did I mention the search feature?  Evernote has implemented OCR (character recognition) so that your searches will also give results for words that are in images.  How cool is that!?