{"id":5000,"date":"2015-12-13T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/13\/amateur-diplomat-okay-im-about-to-psa-about\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T06:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:51:45","slug":"amateur-diplomat-okay-im-about-to-psa-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/13\/amateur-diplomat-okay-im-about-to-psa-about\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5000 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/13\/amateur-diplomat-okay-im-about-to-psa-about\/attachment\/5001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nw13dcfvrs1qmkq3eo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nw13dcfvrs1qmkq3eo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nw13dcfvrs1qmkq3eo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/amateur-diplomat.tumblr.com\/post\/130911156516\">amateur-diplomat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>okay I\u2019m about to PSA about OneNote, my favorite* corner of MS software because it has enabled me to be the datamonster I am!<\/p>\n<p>today I received the above email from the OneNote team. now normally I am like the rest of you. my eyes glaze over when I receive a tech company\u2019s marketing material.\u00a0but something about this caught my eye. maybe it was the unassuming design of the email. maybe it was the lack of buzzwords. but when I realized what it was, I realized it had just <b>changed the way I keep my personal records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>while I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s smart to go entirely paperless, I do have quite a bit of experience with trying to manage and search through massive sets of paper files, both my creative stuff and my household stuff. it can get pretty\u00a0gnarly.<\/p>\n<p>this, though? <b>when you drop image files containing numbers or text into a OneNote file, Optical Character Recognition technology can read \u2013 and thus allow you to search \u2013 those words and numbers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>that means receipts, doctor\u2019s reports, insurance claims, bills, bank statements, typed story notes, even manuals for your household appliances\u2026 all of this becomes searchable. <b>it\u2019s the digital archive you don\u2019t have to type up in order to peruse.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>if you have a Windows Phone (or an Android or an iPhone!), this is as easy as <b>downloading the Office Lens app and taking a photograph of any document\u00a0<\/b>(or any <i>thing<\/i>??! I\u2019m testing this on a road sign later), which you save to the OneNote notebook of your choice. if you don\u2019t have a smart phone, you can also take photos with a digital point-and-shoot and then import the images into OneNote pages on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>even if you don\u2019t get rid of your entire filing cabinet \u2013 and I personally wouldn\u2019t recommend it \u2013 <b>this makes your personal data searchable<\/b>. and when you know what you\u2019re looking for, but not where to find it, this can be a game-changer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amateur-diplomat: okay I\u2019m about to PSA about OneNote, my favorite* corner of MS software because it has enabled me to be the datamonster I am! today I received the above email from the OneNote team. now normally I am like the rest of you. my eyes glaze over when I receive a tech company\u2019s marketing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/13\/amateur-diplomat-okay-im-about-to-psa-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3030,3032,3029,1438,3031],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-onenote","tag-personal-organization","tag-reblogging-because-this-is-still-really-helpful","tag-recommendations","tag-tools","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}