Henry Tian's List: Technology

• Depending on the complexity of your projects, you might want to have a separate notebook for each project or type of project
• For projects that don't require a separate notebook, you might choose to give each project its own section. As you work on the project, you can add and organize pages as needed. For very simple projects, you can put everything into a single page
• Record audio and video and scan pages directly into OneNote
• Microsoft OneNote 2010 allows you to password-protect sections
• As you become comfortable with OneNote, you can investigate additional options such as section groups and subpages
• At the left is a navigation bar. You can use it to move back and forth through the various sections. If you have several notebooks open, they will all show up in the navigation bar and you can move between them

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• It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier  to stop reading them
• transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social
• The Impulse Buy
• A friend mentions a book in passing, and instead of jotting down a reminder to  pick it up next time you're at Barnes & Noble, you take out the Kindle and  -- voilà! -- you own it.
• print books have remained a kind of game preserve for the endangered species of  linear, deep-focus reading
• But when you sit down with an old-fashioned book in your hand, the medium works  naturally against such distractions
• I fear that one of the great joys of book reading -- the total immersion in  another world, or in the world of the author's ideas -- will be compromised. We  all may read books the way we increasingly read magazines and newspapers: a  little bit here, a little bit there
• Reading books will go from being a fundamentally private activity -- a direct  exchange between author and reader -- to a community event, with every isolated  paragraph the launching pad for a conversation with strangers around the world
• Imagine every page of every book individually competing with every page of every  other book that has ever been written
• Perhaps entire books written with search engines in mind. We'll have to see.
• Many books offered for the Kindle, for instance, allow readers to download the  first chapter free of charge
• authors will devise a host of stylistic and commercial techniques in crafting  these giveaway sections
• Right now, introductions are written with the assumption that people have  already bought the book. That won't be the case in the future, when the  introduction is given away. It will, no doubt, be written more to entice readers  to buy the whole book

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• 1. Stretch
• Every so often I can’t find time to exercise, but at the very least I stretch.  Some benefits of this include: reduced muscle tension, increased flexibility,  and increased energy levels (from the increased circulation of blood
• 2. Write: I normally spend time each day writing articles for  this blog. I find writing very therapeutic as it allows me to clarify my  thoughts and feelings about a number of issu
• 3. Listen to Music I Love: its a simple pleasure we often take  for granted. If ever I want to relax, get pumped, or simply just have fun its  quite likely I will put on some music to accompany my mood.
• 10. Celebrate My Successes: I find its so important to take  time each and every day to celebrate my successes

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• Some people said that using this type of digital  

   

  pen with a special  paper is similar to using a Microsoft Onenote on tablet PC