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Notion app 101: TikTok’s latest aesthetic craze is this organizing app

At the onset of the pandemic, neatly organized planners got left behind on office and classroom desks across America. But Gen Z seems to have found an answer to the organizational woes of studying from home in a strange yet aesthetically-pleasing place: A piece of enterprise software called Notion, which offers a digital workplace for …

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Working from home with ADD: Try these apps to stay on task

It took me two hours to get this sentence written. It is of no particular brilliance, the typing of it took only a few seconds, and the ones that follow it will come quickly, laying themselves like a line of train tracks as I hammer out a list of digital resources I’ve used to combat my Attention Deficit Disorder. But …

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Otter’s free app brings voice transcripts into the AI age

Now playing: Watch this: Otter’s app makes free voice transcriptions easy and… 2:08 If you don’t hate transcribing, it’s probably just because you don’t have to do it very much.  Otter, a new, free mobile app from a team of vets from Google and speech-recognition company Nuance, aims to make voice transcriptions become as easy and accessible as typing into …

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Evernote now has 220 million users even after raising prices

When you need to jot down an idea, check something off your to-do list or scan a business-trip receipt, free tools are plentiful — think Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, Dropbox Paper and more. But Chris O’Neill, chief executive of Evernote, the company that pioneered the technology, thinks it’s worth paying for — so much so that Evernote raised …

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Turn your phone into a document scanner for free

Recently I found an old NeatReceipts document scanner tucked away in a closet. This was an expensive item, so I had to stop and wonder why I wasn’t using it. Oh, right: I use my phone. Is that a scanner in your pocket? This is not a new idea; “scanner” apps have been around almost as long as smartphones, but …

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Evernote’s new app: Fewer taps, more color and better speed

Evernote on Tuesday released the latest iOS version of its note-taking and organization app. Evernote 8.0 seeks to make the user experience faster and simpler. The last year hasn’t been great for Evernote. In July, there was backlash against the company’s new pricing structure. Last month, after an uproar over changes to its privacy policy, Evernote did a full about-face …

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Organize and file your taxes with your smartphone

Few of us like to do our taxes. Entering numbers over and over, lengthy questionnaires and looming fearing of a large tax payment all make the yearly process feel tedious and exhausting. Luckily, in recent years our smartphones have become great tools to manage your taxes from start to finish. With an army of apps, you can take the sting …

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