Tag: Productivity - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: Productivity

Google NotebookLM for a house assistant

An AI house assistant we can talk to

My friends know me as an obsessive documenter, but in addition to taking pictures of everything, I keep meticulous records about our house, its maintenance, and in general, every project I'm working on. In an attempt to make the house information useful for my family, I created a Google NotebookLM and gave it access to the house notes. Now, Pam (and I) can text chat with our house LLM, which has already proven to be very useful.

Exporting Evernote notebooks

I am finally leaving Evernote (exporting Notes to Markdown)

I've been watching Evernote stagnate and become less useful to me for many years and based on anecdotes from many friends, a lot of people are in a similar state. I've tried migrating to OneNote, Notion, Mem, and others, but no migration path has ever really worked...

Scrolling from the virtual keyboard in iOS and Android

Scrolling from the mobile keyboard in iOS and Android makes it easy to precisely position the cursor.

Mac-like screen captures in Windows: Snagit

To emulate Mac-like screen captures, you can use the $49.95 Windows utility called Snagit, by TechSmith. You can configure presets to be triggered by Alt+Shift+3 and Alt-Shift+4 to do the same things they do in OS X.