Create and Share a Short Story with the Notes Application

By using the Notes application, you can create and share what you could call a journal or series short stories with others in your network.  Here’s a short walk-through of some of the advantages as well as actually getting started and setting it up. Advantages with Private Network Before jumping right into the process, here’s [...]

A Tool for Giving Updates from the Road

One way to use a private network is when you’re on a trip or journey somewhere and you’d like to share the experience with maybe a few others that are too busy or have other engagements to join you at the time. This includes activities such as sharing a journal while you ago, maybe to [...]

10 Ways to Use the Notes Application

As notes are so simple to use, you can easily find a use for them in just about any situation or environment.  Helpful to capture the idea that has value at the moment, so you can go back to for reference or sharing with others. Sort of the like trying to remember a nice or [...]

Moving a Note from a Private Folder to a Shared Folder

This can be helpful when initially adding an idea or note in one of your more private folders, but later decide it’s ok and would be a good idea to share with others.  While you could just share the folder, if the folder contains other content you’re not yet ready to share, this might not [...]

Customizing the Slideshow Views

One of the nice features of the slideshow feature is being able to launch it from whatever list view you’re currently looking at. Anytime you click on an application you’ll see the initial view, sorted alphabetically by the item (action, note, event, etc) name.  If you click the slideshow button, the slideshow will be shown [...]

New Formatting Options When Adding Text to Notes, Actions and Emails

Now whenever you add a note, action, or sending an email notification, you’ll see a few additional font options to tweak the style of any text you’re writing.  These include changing the font color, the background color, the font type as well as the font size. To make changes, just highlight the appropriate text and [...]

Getting a Quick Preview of Your Application Items Before Deleting

Now whenever you’d like to remove an item from any of the applications, you’ll see a quick preview of the item before you confirm to actually delete. This is set up for when you highlight an item and click delete, the new window that appears to ask you to confirm now shows the application item [...]

Using Notes for Sending Out Meeting Notes and Group Emails

If you’re with a group of people where everyone knows each other, or maybe a small association or organization, and you get together maybe once a month to go over a few things, no doubt to at least try to keep things running smoothly, you may find yourself sending a few emails.   One beforehand to [...]

New Application Item Layout, Integrating Details and Comments

To make things a little more intuitive when viewing any application items, the layout has been tweaked from a top/bottom format to a left/right format.   See the below screenshot with the Note application. This helps to be able to both see the details of an application as well as view/add any comments, all in one [...]

Send an Email Notification with Application Content Included

Now whenever you add a new piece of content to any of the applications and would like to send a quick email notification of the item, you can do so a little easier.  This is done by automatically inserting the content or the description of the application within the email, along with a link back [...]

Viewing Notes You’ve Added with the My Notes Filter

With the My Notes filter, in one click you can filter the Notes application to see only the notes you’ve added to your network. This can be a helpful feature when looking through a larger list of notes, such as the integrated view of all the notes shared with you in the All folder, and [...]

Reviewing Your Notes with Slideshow View

Here’s another new feature for the Notes application, being able to see all the notes that you have within any folder in the Slideshow view.   This can be helpful for quickly going through a list of ideas that either you or others have jotted down and shared, as well as see and add comments for [...]