If you use Personal Knowbase to keep track of contacts, try inserting each person’s email addresses in the Attachments field to create a quick email address book.
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PK Tip: Quick Email Address Book
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Using Personal Knowbase as Index Card Software
Since the 1980’s, we’ve been using personal computers to replace tasks that we used to do with pen and paper. We used paper index cards for many purposes from research to recipes. Now we put that information on our computer.
Although we now enter most information directly into our computers, the structure of the data often still resembles how index card systems used to work. We have digitized our index card projects.
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Personal Knowbase Helps Educators Stay Organized
It’s Back-to-School time again! Personal Knowbase is a great software tool for organizing notes and records. Following are six ways that PK can help educators get organized.
Personal Knowbase is a note management program for Windows. It stores information in free-format notes which it refers to as “articles.” Assigning keywords to your articles indexes them for easy access based on your customized criteria.
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PK Tip: Printing a List of Articles
A recent tip talked about how to make a text list of selected article titles for using in another software application or putting into its own Personal Knowbase article.
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Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Sending Email
Composing and sending emails can eat up a lot of time. Here are some tips for making your email production process more effective and efficient:
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PK Tip: Making a Text List of Article Titles
Sometimes you may need to make a list of articles from your Knowbase data file to use in text form, as if you had captured the text from the Titles column of the Index Window. You could use such a list to import the titles list into another software application or to import back into Personal Knowbase as a new article.
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Computer Basics: Setting a Default Printer in Windows
You can tell Windows to use a default printer for all Windows applications. You may need to change this setting if you connect a new printer. Also, unfortunately, sometimes programs interfere with this setting and change it without verifying the change with the end user, requiring you to reset it.
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PK Tip: Creating Template Articles
If you frequently need to create articles with similar text fields, forms, or subheadings, you can save time and typing by creating “template” articles.
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Using Personal Knowbase for Journaling
Personal Knowbase is great for keeping a diary or journal.
The software stores free-format information divided into separate notes, called “articles.” You can effectively use it as a diary by creating a new article entry for each date. You can sort articles by date for chronological entries, as for a daily diary or a personal journal with irregularly-added entries.
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Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Your Email Inbox
Every year, our email inboxes get fuller and fuller. For many people, email is the preferred method of communication due to the ease of sending emails. Unlike with phone calls, both parties don’t have to be available at the same time, you can send the same message to multiple recipients, and you can copy and paste blocks of text without rewriting. Here are tips for getting the deluge under control:
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