Android provides three different APIs to run tasks in the future. All of them have their benefits and downsides. The AlarmManager’s API has changed over time, so you need to be careful which method you use on which platform. The JobScheduler is only available on Android Lollipop and Marshmallow, whereas the GcmNetworkManager is only available on devices with Google Play preinstalled. There are three options with changing API levels, so
Evernote CEO Chris O’Neill (left) and Evernote Co-founder and Executive Chairman Phil Libin. A new chapter at Evernote starts next week: Chris O’Neill will be our next CEO. Wow. That’s a big sentence for me to write. I have to stop for a minute. Eight years ago, a bunch of us came together in California to build something important. We saw an opportunity to change what people expected from productivity tools.
Check out behind the scenes footage from The Robotic Spider Project, a collaborative venture featuring Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, and Evernote. Long before the science, there was the story. Adam Savage became known for testing the limits of science on the popular Discovery Channel TV series “Mythbusters,” but he began his career designing props for Hollywood films. When you watch an episode of the myth-busting television program, you get a sense of
We love our writers. In the past year, we’ve featured best-selling authors, influential bloggers, and journalists who use Evernote to capture ideas, manage research, organize plot elements, and write. You don’t have to be Neil Gaiman or Susan Orlean to make an impact with your writing. These days, we’re all writers. It doesn’t matter if you manage a corporate blog or do content marketing. That’s why we’re very excited to
Evernote provides many different tools to power your productivity and fuel the success for all your projects. Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker, productivity strategist, and recently wrote about how he uses Evernote features like notebook organization, email, and reminders to help him tackle his monthly writing and an upcoming book project. This post is an excerpt from a post published by Mike Vardy on the Productivityist blog about how he uses
What will you accomplish in 2015? Throughout January, we’re sharing our favorite #EvernoteTips, shortcuts, and tricks perfect for powering productivity, whether you work for yourself or on a team. The sounds of work and life surround us. From a lecture being delivered in a college auditorium to a team meeting in the office, spoken words are an important type of the content you need to succeed. For professionals like doctors
If you are going to achieve your goals in 2015, you must have a way to track your progress, so you actually achieve it. There are a variety of tools for doing this. Author Michael Hyatt provides tips on how he uses Evernote to organize his life and focus on accomplishing business goals for the new year. Hyatt is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Platform: Get Noticed
Managing a large website like Evernote.com can be tricky and it helps to have a thoughtful architecture when managing files. Implementing Sass in our build was no different. We needed a methodology to manage how we styled our pages using Sass. After reading the book SMACSS, there were several ideas outlined in the book seemed to fit well with how we could manage our files. When creating our Sass architecture
The power of Evernote is that there is no right or wrong way to use it. From audio notes to websites, it’s the perfect place to capture and store the content you need to be productive. The question we get from many users is how to organize the material they bring into Evernote. From notebooks to tags, you have the option to decide your own personal classification system. That taxonomy
What’s the cost of a meeting? For some companies, it’s more than diminished productivity and wasted time. Yesterday, at the Fast Company Innovation By Design Conference, Nest CEO Tony Fadell suggested that one single meeting has a significant financial impact. https://twitter.com/ctrlzee/status/522377621376872448 Not only do meetings impact human capital, they also waste a tremendous amount of time. Earlier this week, Bain & Company published a study that found a single weekly meeting