I am the first to admit that I am easily distracted when spending time at the computer writing. There have been a number of applications and techniques that I have tried in order to keep me focused on the cast in hand but none seemed to be effective, easy to customise and use as those mentioned recently on lifeclever.com.
A summary of the top five applications for note-taking, as voted for by readers of LifeHacker was recently published.
The top five includes Evernote, a cross platform solution that is gaining popularity very quickly along side the old favorite favourite, pen and paper.
GrabUp is a neat piece of Apple freeware that frequent bloggers may find useful, especially when the next version is released.
GrabUp is actually an Apple OSX preference pane that modifies the standard screen grab keystrokes that are built into the Apple operating system. Rather than saving the resulting images locally on your computer they are saved online using a unique and private URL. Not only that the generated URL is stored ready for use in the clipboard ready to paste wherever required with a simple COMMAND V keystroke.
While this may seem illogical at first to some it all depends why you take screen shots.
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