Quick Evernote Capture via Scratch

Karbon’s very own Bill Griesau runs through some workflows for using the new custom email exports system in Scratch with Evernote:

The thing about Evernote is that it is the perfect system for storing and referencing information, but it is not the best tool for quick capture. However, with Scratch custom email exports, it makes including Evernote into my workflow so much easier.

I’ve never been an Evernote guy, but many Scratch users are and this functionality and simple workflow should be quite helpful. And I have to admit, after reading Bill’s post I’m considering hooking it all up because it’s so easy to use.

On the Subject of GTD

Me: That's exactly what I hate about GTD.
Me: 10,000,000 TextExpander shortcuts and AppleScripts and rules.
Me: So GTD means managing all that shit.
Me: Wow, way to get nothing done.
Bill Griesau: It's too much. Way too much.
Me: For me, I've found the best system is:
Me: 1. Add item to list.
Me: 2. Do the thing or delete it.
Me: And that's it. No really-long-term planning, no complex organizing or categorizing or automating.
Me: Just HERE ARE THINGS.
Me: And DO or DELETE.
Bill Griesau: Let your mind naturally decide what to do and write it down now so you don't forget it then.
Bill Griesau: DO or DELETE, and if DELETE and you think it's important, oh well—it will come back up if it really is important.
Bill Griesau: Unless it is "pay Bill Griesau for working". Then, don't delete that.
Me: And I do have one more stage, which is DO LATER, which happens naturally in that sometimes I look at my list and think, nah, not now.
Me: So I just drag something else higher on the list.
Me: And when I need something to do, i just look at the list, and do the first thing if I can. If not, the second, etc.
Me: I'm certain GTD works for thousands of people.
Me: But for me, it's just masturbation.
Me: And frankly, I'd rather spend that time actually masturbating if I have to choose between it and GTD masturbation.
Me: At least one feels good.
Bill Griesau: We already have masturbation, it's called *masturbation*.
Me: Man, that quote's got LEGS.

A while back we released Scratch v1.4 with a whole new customizable email exports system. You can create unlimited email export options with To and Cc addresses, custom placeholder-based subject lines, and have them sent instantly in the background (without showing the compose sheet) if you want.

A couple of really cool ways you can use this:

Setup an “Email Me” export (as shown in the screenshots here) and you can instantly email yourself notes after a meeting or at the end of the day.

Create a version that emails to your personal Evernote email address. Check the “Strip first line from body” box and make the subject the first line placeholder and have it send instantly. Bam, your Scratch notes look great in Evernote.

You can create as many as you want and configure them all differently. It’s pretty boss. Go get it.

Horatio

Shawn Morrison: I wonder how my mayo consumption compares to the per capita average.
Me: I can't believe it's more than mine.
Shawn Morrison: It's a lot.
Shawn Morrison: Too bad there isn't Nike+ for mayonnaise.
Dan Wineman: You guys should volunteer for a study.
Dan Wineman: At the...
Dan Wineman: (sunglasses)
Dan Wineman: Mayo Clinic.
Me: YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Regarding that Klout Knife Fight Perk

Me: [I just received a ridiculous Klout perk to watch Knife Fight, which is apparently an "underground cooking competition".]
Shawn Morrison: Would be perfect if it was actually a show about knife fights. (Perfect for you.)
Dan Wineman: Better yet, a show about pro chefs knife fighting. Like a cooking contest where you can either make the best souffle or you can stab the other guy.
Shawn Morrison: Gordon Ramsey vs The Barefoot Contessa. To the death.
Dan Wineman: Exactly.
Dan Wineman: "Let's see if Alton Brown can whisk up a perfect hollandaise... while fending off Guy Fieri's Blades of Crispy Guy-talian Death."
Me: "You're watching Food Network: Today's best and brightest chefs, all murdered in knife fights so it's hard to tell what we'll be doing in 6 months."
Dan Wineman: But what a glorious 6 months it would be.
Me: Indeed.
Me: I can't stop picturing Rachel Ray, whimpering and covered in blood and flesh, standing over Paula Deen's enormous corpse, holding her severed head.
Me: Then again, that was the case before this conversation.
Shawn Morrison: Rachel Ray would totally be the last one standing. Still just smiling like an idiot.
Ask a question
slomoyallslomoyall asked:
Is scratch the unofficial successor to xPad?

We didn’t intend for it to be. Shawn came up with the idea for Scratch and pitched it to the team (and then engineered and led the project), and never once did we realize the similarity between the two apps. But it makes perfect sense to me that we’d create both xPad and Scratch, since we’re always trying to build tools for ourselves to work better. xPad solved a problem I was having back in 2005 (managing lots of text documents on my Mac) and Scratch solves a problem we have today (quick note taking and jotting stuff down on the iPhone and then doing something with the content). We’re thrilled it’s solving that problem for other people too.

An Educated Consumer

Bill Griesau: I feel sick to my stomach when I look at cameras [to decide which one to purchase]...
Shawn Morrison: You should just make a pinhole camera from an old oatmeal container and call it a day.
Bill Griesau: I'll just go to P.C. Richard & Son and buy whatever the sales guy pressures me into buying.

Construction and Catholic Tradition

Me: I love that the construction site around the corner has to constantly use an air horn to signify things.
Me: Replace love with fucking hate to death.
Shawn Morrison: Sorry that's actually me, I've been signaling high tide.
Me: I didn't realize it was high tide every 21 minutes all day every day.
Shawn Morrison: I'm just guestimating.
Bill Griesau: Now tell me how you feel about the new pope being chosen.
Me: It would be awesome if the cardinals came out and they said, "Well, we chose a new pope. And it's... this old Jewish guy who got lost in Vatican City two days ago while on a trip with his work friends."
Me: And the whole world just gasps.
Me: And then the Jewish guy goes, "Oy vey!" and looks at the camera with a smile.
Me: CREDITS, 80s ROCK SONG