Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Organization’ Category

Evernote Search Feature Built Into Chrome

Last week Evernote released instructions to add the ability to search your notes using the search bar in Google Chrome.
Now my two favorite tools, Google Chrome and Evernote now work in harmony with one another.
Benefits:

This allows coders to quickly grab code that they use often for a project
To find notes while using only one program [...]

How to organize clients files on your computer

Over the years I have learned a lot about setting up a design business and I want to share the way that we organize our clients files.
I feel that there are some great resources out there that guide you to setting up a business but one thing no one teaches you is, how to setup [...]

How to find items in Evernote created on a certain date

Almost everyday I try to find new ways to improve my organizational skills, and this has never been apparent as it is now with the use of tools like Evernote and Google Apps. This morning I wanted to look up notes in Evernote that I created yesterday, and instead of looking through the list of [...]

Logmein.com in Google Chrome

I am trying out Logmein.com inside of Google Chrome and so far it is pretty nice, the quality is what you would expect from Logmein.com. The upside to logmein.com in Google Chrome is that is doesn’t require any plugin like the firefox version does, which is something that I have been really into lately. On [...]

Sharing my inspiration

Over the years I have collected some artwork and websites that I find inspirational and before these items were only on my computer. This was fine for the first 50-100 pieces but now this stock pile of artwork is into the 800+ items and I needed a easier way to search through them. I needed [...]

Tools to run a business with the cloud

This past year I have been getting busier and the amount of work that I have, has more then doubled. I needed to come up with a solution that would allow me to manage my daily tasks of running a web business and
having to be at multiple places.
Here are some of the problems that I [...]

100 Different Evernote Uses

Take a photo of your contacts measurements and save them to your personal notebook. Makes ordering your next pair easier.
Take a photo of the page you are reading in a book and use @evernote to make your notes, keeping your book pages clean
keep your web bookmarks in Evernote, then add screenshots to help kick start [...]