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Some great general tips - highlights: There's power in pauses. Never forget that one.

What is really great about this article is how it discusses how note taking can be integrated with your task management. Check the "Action items" section:

"The next step is to make sure I do what I need to do after the meeting.

The key is OmniFocus and its Mail Drop service; put simply, that means I can email to-do items to myself. For this to work, I sync OmniFocus with the Omni Sync Server. You have to apply to use the Mail Drop service; when I did, I received my invite in a matter of minutes. Once accepted, I set up a unique email address that is my direct link to the Sync Server.

Using the latest version of Drafts, I configured a customized email action called ‘Email to OmniFocus Mail Drop’. This action sends a given note to my personalized OmniFocus email address using the first line of the note as the subject."

My first-gen iPad really got slow over time, up to a point that it drove me nuts! I didn't want to buy a new one yet, so I researched and then wrote a post (the best one you will find online, naturally) how to get some more life out of your iOS device. Some things might surprise you.

I originally intended to write a post on how to speed up the iPad (because mine is running slow), and most posts I read mentioned to manually shut down apps in the multitasking bar. Wrong! In most cases, it won't change a thing. Good thing I researched this thoroughly - I don't want to make the same mistake as so many other bloggers.

Still a little surprised that so many people believe in and tell this myth (even some people working as Genius for Apple), I decided to write this as its own post. Read it, you will be surprised. And: You will know for what few apps it makes sense to fiddle around in the multitasking bar.

The post I originally wanted to write about speeing up your iPad is coming soon on http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad.

This is for real: Get 22GB of free cloud storage - waaaay more than your free Dropbox or Google Drive account. Heck, even more than the entry level iPad!

Do you sometimes wonder how people were doing research in the pre-internet age? I do this quite often, and do you know what I am thinking right after? How the hell did I do research on the web before I knew about Diigo?!!

There are more and more content curation solution available, so please don't stick with pinterest. Oh whom am I talking to, you are reading this on scoop.it already!

What makes Keeb.it interesting is that the collections are private by default. Not bad, could be nice to organize your online search and interests.

This app could be well placed in between mainstream media (con: what Vicotia Beckham ate for lunch is more important than residents of an entire region in South Darfur didn't) and blogs (con: noise, redundancy, copy and paste "journalism"). It offers an in-depth look at a particular topic through a curation by professional journalists. Here is what Track180 wants to be:

"It's essentially an engagement platform to expose readers to all sides of an issue and help form opinions. And instead of trying to chase the tail of the ever-elusive tiger that is news, Track180 focuses on under-the-radar news that has not yet trended mainstream. Instead, it's more feature-y on the cusp material like the persecution of bloggers in Russia or human rights abuses. If you're looking for entertainment gossip and sports, this isn't the place for you."

Worth a try