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Evernote is a definite must have in my opinion. It's tremendous for taking and organizing notes as well as the web clipper feature.

I've been using Feedly for my reader ever since I discovered it a couple years ago. There's no real reason behind it ither than the fact that it came out before Flipboard and I never and a reason to make a move away from it.

I also use Dropbox on an almost everyday basis. It's great for keeping documents readily accessible at any time from any device.

I was never able to get into Evernote. I do use the WordPress app from my phone frequent though. When I have a post idea, I'll save it as a draft to fresh out later

I sometimes handwrite notes and then shoot a picture with my phone and send it to Evernote. Otherwise I eventually lose my notes. Doing this also makes everything searchable (Evernote will even OCR your handwriting to the extent possible).

I store my backups in Dropbox as well.

The software that has helped me the most is Dragon Naturally Speaking. I can dictate my posts (and even comments) directly onto the website, or I can record full articles while driving to work or during any other activity where I can talk into my phone or voice recorder. I can't tell you how much time this has saved and how much more productive I have been because of this.

This That And The MBA said:

I carry around a little notepad in my pocket…my wife is embarassed i carry it :-)

 

when the mind is racing sometimes you need to just jot stuff down.

I have a 'Notepad' app on my smartphone that's replaced the physical notepad :)

I set my backups to go to Google Drive. Need to sign up for Dropbox, definitely would be useful

Edward Antrobus said:

I was never able to get into Evernote. I do use the WordPress app from my phone frequent though. When I have a post idea, I'll save it as a draft to fresh out later

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds Evernote pointless. I really tried to like it because so many people rave about it, but it drove me nuts. I use Reminders on iphone/mac instead – simple, has all I need, nothing I don't, and syncs through the cloud.

I've had mixed luck with the Wordpress app. Some functions don't work right on my phone but it's nice to do the basics.

Barb Friedberg said:

Everything online I save is on dropbox. Have a big tabbed notebook for writing according to category, ie to do lists, blog, class notes, prof scholarship. Hootsuite, buffer, skype, google drive.  I need to get used to evernote, seems like a really good resource. 

 

Khaleef, fascinated that those dragon commercials are for real!

I haven't seen the commercials, but the product is so good that I purchased a copy for Julie (my partner on the sites) as well. We even use it to respond to comments on the site and our YouTube channels!