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- Your account will be closed if you don't make a referral within the first 180 days.
- Weirdly, "If you put a link that you got from the Amazon link builder in [the Amazon link verifier], it will give you a 'fail.' It's not for those links." (Source)
Evernote
- 2015.04.17 - Paul Minors - A Tour of My Evernote Account
- He highly recommends a book called "Evernote Essentials" by Brett(?) Kelly(?), a former employee at Evernote.
- It looks like a simpler version of Confluence. The main thing it seems to be missing is the ability to create complex hierarchies between pages ("notes" in Evernote). Evernote's "Notebooks" can't contain content, so they seem most analogous to Confluence's "Spaces".
- The general organization philosophy seems to be more "Gmail" than "Wikipedia".
- You can create links between notes. Not sure if they update automatically if you rename a note.
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- reminders only show up if you have the calendar page open
Laptops
My customizations
- On my HP laptop I don't have an easy way to distinguish between the F keys when it's dark (e.g. when I'm in a room with the lights off), and so I took three small square pieces of paper, and on one of them I wrote "5", on another I wrote "8", and on another I wrote "12", and I taped each piece of paper above its corresponding F-key (F5, F8, F12). Those are the three F-keys I use the most often, and they are spaced fairly evenly apart, so it makes it easy to figure out where the other keys are (e.g. F4 is one to the left of F5).
Notepad++
Thoughts
Things I like
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- The recommended settings below are for using Notepad++ as just a better version of Notepad (i.e. for keeping notes), and not as a code editor.
Windows settings
- Set all .txt files to open with Notepad++ by default.
- Right-click a .txt file, select "Open with...", then select Notepad++, and select the checkbox that says "Always use this program".
- Change Notepad++'s file icon to the default Notepad one, because the Notepad++ file icon is too colorful / busy.
- Change the font to Calibri (what Word uses) or Consolas (what Notepad uses)
- Hide autocomplete suggestions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22635911/4115031
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View menu
- Enable "Word wrap".
Settings → Preferences → General
- Select 'Hide menu bar'.
- Press 'Alt' to have it show up when you need it.
- Deselect 'Show status bar'.
- Toolbar:
- Enable the 'Hide' checkbox.
- Tab bar:
- Deselect 'Draw a coloured bar on active tab'
Settings → Preferences
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→ Editing
- Set caret 'Width' to 2.
- Enable multi-editing
- Set 'Line Wrap' to 'Indent'
- Disable 'Display line number'
- Disable 'Display bookmark'
- Disable 'Enable current line highlighting'.
- Set 'Border Width' to 'No edge'
- Set 'Folder Margin Style' to 'None'Disable 'Enable current line highlighting'
Settings → Preferences → Auto-Completion
- Change the "Enable auto-completion on each input" child option to "Function completion" from "Function and word completion".
Settings → Style Configurator
- Change the font to Calibri (what Word uses) or Consolas (what Notepad uses) or Source Code Pro (what I use in PyCharm, which I think was the one Naveed told me to change it to).
- The benefit of using Source Code Pro is that it's monospace, which is helpful when working on coding projects.
Find
- Enable "Wrap around" so that it will search the entire document and not just the portion of the document that comes after where your cursor is located.
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