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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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: 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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10 Ways PK Helps You Get Organized for 2019
Happy New Year!
Are you resolving to get organized for 2019?
Here are 10 ideas for using Personal Knowbase to help you meet your New Years resolution to get organized.
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The History of Personal Knowbase
People often ask us how Personal Knowbase first came to exist. In short, it came to exist because we needed such a tool ourselves and couldn’t find other software that fit our needs, so we wrote it.
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Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 2)
Software that stores freeform text information commonly uses three ways to structure data:
- Searching with Straight Text Strings
- Categorizing in Hierarchical Trees
- Indexing with User-specified Keywords
Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 1)
Personal Knowbase uses a system where users specify keywords to index their notes. When you create a new text note in the software, you tag the note with one or more keywords (or key-phrases) which will later provide a fast way to locate that note.
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