In my legal writing, I often use the Latin phrase shortcut "id." or "Id." to refer to a prior cite in the document (see the Wikipedia entry here). The problem is, those shortcuts are supposed to be in italics, which can slow you down as you are writing a brief or require you to return … Continue reading T3:28 | Autohotkey tip to handle id. and Id.
This week's Tech Tip Tuesday offers some ideas on how to reduce email notification distraction, without completely turning off all notifications. Read the tip over at The Indiana Lawyer, here.
Like TextExpander on my iDevices and Mac, Autohotkey is my favorite text expansion program in a Windows environment. I know I have saved hours of time using AHK keyboard shortcuts. You can use the link above to learn more about how to create your own scripts and add the ideas I share … Continue reading T3:26 | 5 Autohotkey Keyboard Shortcuts to speed up your day
For this week's Tech Tip Tuesday, I'm sharing links to my favorite iOS (iPhone/iPad) based text-expansion software TextExpander (TE) (by Smile Software). The app goes on sale today for $0.99 with the price increasing by $1 per day until the sale ends March 20. I use this software every day on my iOS devices. It's great … Continue reading T3:25 | iOS TextExpander 3
If you want to get more from your iPhone, check out this article I recently wrote for The Indiana Lawyer here. What are your favorite iPhone tips?
Recently, I started a post with a list of some of the apps I'm currently testing and some that are on my wish list. You can visit the list here. This post will show you how I create that list. I often read about an app I might be interested in, but don't want to … Continue reading T3:23 | Wish List for Apps
Here is a (ever growing) list of some of my favorite apps (and some I want to try out). Note that these links are affiliate links. iPhone OmniFocus 2 - The Omni Group (Universal) Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple - DeskConnect, Inc. Fantastical 2 for iPhone - Calendar and Reminders - Flexibits Inc. Drafts 4 … Continue reading iPhone | iPad | Mac | App List
This week, I compiled a list of links to the articles I wrote outside my blog in 2014 for this post. Hopefully, some of these tips can help you this year. As I looked back through the posts and articles I have written, I noticed that at the time I wrote the article/post, I didn't … Continue reading T3:22 | 2014 Article List
There are two iPhone apps on sale "for a limited time" that I recently downloaded, largely on the recommendation of the excellent Mac Power Users podcast. The first app is called Fantastical 2 for iPhone. This is a calendar app that enhances Apple's built in iOS calendar. I just downloaded this a few minutes ago, and it … Continue reading T3:21 | Two iPhone apps to check out
Happy New Year! This week's Tech Tip Tuesday shows you a trick to quickly insert the current time into any application using to type "tstamp" and have the application submit the current time with the AM/PM designation (e.g., 3:51 PM). Here's the screencast: (linked here in case you can't see this on your device.)
