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Do you often make the same grammatical mistakes when writing ? Find the correct spelling and write it down in a note for reference (in English or in your own language (or both))
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A great review of PpcSoft iKnow in
TechRepublic.
"If you are willing and able to work within iKnow's workflow, it is an outstanding application. In OneNote, I tend to dump entire Web pages in, and then use the highlighter tool to mark the text that interests me. What I end up with is a collection of Web pages that I need to look through to find the useful information, and then wonder how it relates to the other items I marked.
With iKnow, you would either copy just the relevant information, or reword it to fit your needs, and it all links together. In a nutshell, iKnow requires slightly more up-front effort and care than OneNote or Evernote when creating the notes, but once they are made, using the information is much easier."
- Justin James, TechRepublic
Comments:
Unfortunately, the reviewed version had a bug which resulted in a broken tag system - this bug has been fixed !
Why are businesses reluctant to adopting the "new" social media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook ?
One important reason is that increasing conversation does not necessarily increase productivity (in fact, it can actually decrease productivity). Joel Spolsky argues in his latest Inc. column that many organizations and teams suffer from a common illness: too much communication.
And this is only considering the business-related communication - who knows how much of the conversation is with friends and family during business hours ?
Increased unnecessary communication will increase information overload and reduce productivity - and this is a major part of the reason why most businesses are slow to adopt the latest social media tools....
The Windows Help system has gone through many changes over the years.
"The Windows Help system's bad reputation is so widespread that many folks simply disregard it altogether and have done so for such a long time that they have forgotten that the Windows Help system even exists"
Unfortunately, Microsoft is still struggling to decide what the "ultimate" help system should look like, and this makes it very hard to get a consistent help system for all applications on the Windows platform.
So where does all this leave us ?
There is no perfect solution, so we decided to use this approach:
1. Avoid the need for help by making things as easy-to-use and simple as possible
2. If you need help, try to make it automatically available when and where you need it
3. If everything else fails, provide a simple help file that can be easily updated.
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Our web site was down approx. 6 hours yesterday due to a server upgrade from our web hosting provider.
This will hopefully increase the stability and uptime in the future.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Project Triangle is typically used for the choices Fast, Good and Cheap - where you are asked to pick any two.
The triangle reflects the fact that the properties are interrelated, and you cannot optimize all three.
The Project Triangle is mainly used for (surprise) projects, but can be used for both physical products and software as well.
For physical products, the choices are often Price, Service and Quality as better quality is usually more expensive.
However, for software you don't differentiate on quality (well, competitors often differentiate on quality, but the same company does not release both a high and low quality version of the same product).
To make PpcSoft iKnow available to as many people as possible, we have three different editions. They all have different price, service level and features.
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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Improve your life - and others'...
- Do Love
- Do Laugh
- Do Learn
- Do Listen
- Do Forgive
- Be Good
- Be Positive (thinking and behaving)
- Be Honest (with others and yourself)
- Be Healthy (excercise your body & mind)
- Be Fun
Summary: Enjoy life - and help others enjoy their life !
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Small yellow notes (or Post-its) are used in various articles as examples to show you how simple a small summary/reminder can be.
All you need is a title, a short description (and maybe a link or two)
- and you're done !
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Here are my top 10 posts in 2009 (most popular).
1. KM 3.0: This time it's personal
A four-part series on Knowledge management 3.0
2. iKnow vs. OneNote vs. Evernote
A quick comparison of the productivity tools MS OneNote, EverNote and iKnow
3. Synchronizing multiple computers
A simple how-to for synchronizing your iKnow data (and any other data) between multiple computers using Dropbox.
4. The power of checklists
Checklists are very useful, and PpcSoft iKnow has very powerful list functionality to easily create lots of checklists.
5. Productivity Secrets
Maybe the best productivity tip you'll ever get (while using a computer)
6. Personal Wiki
Can PpcSoft iKnow be used as a personal wiki ? Yes, it definitely can !
7. Wikipedia + Google = iKnow
PpcSoft iKnow is based on the principles of Wikipedia and Google.
8. Usability, Simplicity, Productivity
PpcSoft iKnow has a lot of features designed to improve usability and make you more productive.
9. Capturing vs. Sharing knowledge
Capturing and sharing knowledge can be a hassle, and you should not always do it.
10. Second-sibling problem
A popular puzzle that a lot of people struggle with...
If you want to store a lot of similar notes, like a list of contacts, list of products or list of common support questions or answers, you should create a template first.
A template is an ordinary note like any other, but you use it differently.
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The full-text search is used to find text across all notes.
The results of the full-text search will be shown in a special mode to visually indicate that you are no longer in 'edit mode' but in 'search mode'.
The full-text search in PpcSoft iKnow is very powerful, and we have put in a lot of effort to optimize the usability.
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Can PpcSoft iKnow be used as a personal wiki ?
Certainly - it is a great personal wiki !
A personal wiki is a wiki maintained primarily for personal use. Personal wikis allow people to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis.
There are basically two types of personal wikis:
- multi-user wikis with personal editions
- wiki-applications designed only for single users
PpcSoft iKnow is in the second category:
A desktop application designed for a single users (without the need for a database engine or a web server).
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