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Comment on The Lesbrarians by tara robertson » Blog Archive » lesbrarians vol. 2

tara robertson » Blog Archive » lesbrarians vol. 2 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:41:12 +0000

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Comment on Olympic Living Library by Tara

Tara — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:30:21 +0000

Thanks Toni! I found that article and that quote really powerful too.

Comment on Olympic Living Library by toni

toni — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:16:55 +0000

This caught my full attention. I doubt I will ever forget this. Thanks for the life lesson! toni

Comment on BookMyne by SydneyPLUS

SydneyPLUS — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:19:11 +0000

Excellent critical review.

Comment on getting organized by Tara

Tara — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:37:17 +0000

Thanks Ms. Winters. I’ll check out Simplenote. My life would be a bit different if I could sync my phone to my computer (I can sync it to my girlfriend’s but that gets messy quickly). All the Mac stuff seems to just work together. Perhaps the iPhone will be the gateway drug to me buying a Mac.

Comment on getting organized by Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:57:02 +0000

This is something I’ve been working on for a couple years now: figuring out my tasks and productivity workflow.

Today, I have my bugtracker for web development, use iCal & Google Calendar (though I need to figure out a better way to synchronize those with my iPhone than what I’m doing currently; iCal doesn’t care much for being a front-end to Google Calendar) and take a lot of notes.

I’ve tried a number of other solutions, both for note-taking, like Evernote, docs syncing like QuickOffice on my phone to access Google Docs and my DropBox server, and things like Remember the Milk, OmniFocus, and Things.

Right now, my favourite app combo is Notational Velocity on my Mac and Simplenote on my iPhone. When I’m out, I can jot down a note and have it automatically appear in the same format on my computer, no matter where I am. Because it’s just a search box and a bunch of text files, it’s both very flexible and very straightforward.

The downside is obviously that it’s never going to be the all-in-one solution I want. Really though, I’ve found the most important thing is just coming up with a procedure and then sticking to it, making changes as necessary–and they will be.

Comment on These are a few of my favourite things – iPhone apps by Warren Layton

Warren Layton — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:49:45 +0000

I enjoy LibraryThing’s “Local Books” app. Of course, it depends if LibraryThing Local contains enough locations and events for your current location to make it worthwhile.

Comment on BookMyne by Tara

Tara — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:03:53 +0000

Talin, I assumed that Web Services cost extra as your reps mentioned they needed to be activated, and other users mumbled that activation cost money. I should’ve fact checked that.

I’m still not clear what the purpose of this app is. What do you mean by “meaningful patron interaction”?

Comment on BookMyne by Talin Bingham

Talin Bingham — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:22:16 +0000

Hi Tara, in my previous post I mentioned that it was possible to search by name, city, zip, etc in v1.2, but this functionality is actually coming out in V2 of BookMyne later this year.

In addition I wanted to mention that we’ve spent quite a bit of time optimizing e-Library and Enterprise for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry browsers.

Thanks for the interest.

Comment on BookMyne by Talin Bingham

Talin Bingham — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:03:32 +0000

Hello I’d like to clear something up. None of the customer using the BookMyne iPhone application or the Symphony Web Services has paid anything for them.

Also, with the current release of the BookMyne (version 1.2) application you can find your library by searching by city name, address, or zip code/postal code.