Interesting reads
Often I come across interesting quotes/ phrases and what not. Some of them are worth sharing so here they are:
- Eat to please thyself but dress to please others. But in my opinion wear dresses to please yourself as well as others.
- Be a lion and have the strongest army which will be working just for you and to make you more powerful round the clock.
- Be the protector, rule it.
- Prepare for the wars in which you can win.
- Prepare yourself for the biggest war perpetually. Fight and prepare yourself for the battles. Be Skilled.
Quotes
Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. —Jim Rohn
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to quickly set yourself apart in life, you should make it your first priority to read lots of really good books. If you spend 1–2 hours per morning reading, you’d read 50–100 books per year. Do this for 5–10 years, and as they say, you’ll become an “overnight success.”
“All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.” — Peter Thiel
Why I love Evernote so much - for all my notes / journals keeping?
I take notes extensively - round the clock, be it while traveling, watching movies, in middle of lectures, meetings, you name it, I take notes of things everywhere. Recently I touched 10,000 notes and it was becoming increasingly hard to manage those.
Keeping all those notes in flat files ( Word files ) was making them useless as I couldn't search through them / edit them readily. I edit my notes extensively so it was crazy hard to achieve that in Google Docs as well as then you have unsegregatted notes spread across hundreds of documents.
I used to use Catch app as well which worked nicely for segregatting the notes and it was easy to use but it shut down its services in ~2011 leaving me with a few options.
That's when I started using Evernote ( started in 2011, turned premium a month back ) which turned out to be blessing. It was such an amazing app to use as it allowed me store thousands of notes including voice recordings, tables, images so that was pretty great and served my notes taking habit well.
So what are some of the most appealing features of using Evernote?
1. It stores all the versions of your notes - For Premium user
So let's say if you are writing on a particular topic and you are adding new points everyday and refining the writeup then it becomes important to see different versions of the same note and to see how the note/ your thought evolved over time.
Evernote lets premium users access different revisions of the notes and you can rollback to any of the other versions of the note.
Imagine having this feature for thousands of notes, it is truly a blessing.
Apple notes doesn't have this feature and if by chance you change any text and navigate to the other note, the accidental changes you made can't be rolled back. So beware!
2. Syncs across multiple devices - I use 2 Macs, 2 phones ( Android, iPhone )
Since I use multiple devices most of the times, I have to ensure that everything is synced all the time as I keep on taking notes in one of those devices at any given point of time (whenever required).
Apple's Notes app is awesome but doesn't have a web interface and can't be used on android devices - so a thumbs down.
3. Documents scanner & Business Card Reader
Evernote can scan documents with ease and saves those documents in PDF Format which you can share using any social media platform / email / any other service.
4. Web Interface is awesome, so are native apps for different platforms
Since I use multiple devices ( macs, ios, android ), there are native apps for them so everything works out of the box. When I use friend's machines then I login using web interface which is equally powerful.
5. Web Clipper - AWESOME AWESOME!
Suppose you read a lot of blogs and you frequently clip the webpages / copy paste the contents from the webpages then Web clipper tool is awesome for you as it has extensions for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and once you are done with installing them, you can clip entire webpage ( 2 modes - in identical formatting & simplified formatting ), bookmark it within evernote.
You can also tag those clipped webpages and categorise them for faster retrieval of content for notes making, reading.
To get fully functional one month free premium account, register here.
After one month if you choose not to renew the premium account ( which is the paid one ) - you will still get the basic evernote account and all your previous notes on evernote will be safe ( I tried that and all my notes are intact ).
Different Evernote's packages are as follows:
BASIC
PLUS
PREMIUM
Capture everything that matters.
Access Evernote wherever you are.
Take ideas into action with the complete Evernote experience.
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Should you pay for the Premium / Window Seats in Airplanes?
While boarding a plane or a train or even a bus, have you ever thought of getting a Window Seat?
Just about everyone wants one for sure. If you have luxury of time, you can web check-in earlier and chances of getting a window seat gets higher.
In case you are doing check-in late then you might miss all possibilities of getting a window seat -- reason being most of the good seats are already gone - so leftovers are either in middle ones or the aisle seats.
Now even if you get the window seat by any chance, chances are there that those seats would be around the wing. Now sad part about having a seat near a wing is that it obstructs the view completely / partially (if you are super lucky).
Now, either you would want the rear seats which gives you ample of view but they are least sought after seats - mostly because you receive refreshments in the last, there is enough noise because of the lavatory.
My personal preference is to get the front seats ( 1,2,3,4 ) as they have zero-wing view which is great as then you can enjoy the view of nature outside, the clouds, the moon and other planes sights too which makes it easier for you to pass out time or go into dreamy land with lots of cotton clouds around.
AirAsia offers you the 1,2,3,4 seats at a premium ( INR 400 - 650 ) which is not the case with other flights like SpiceJet, Vistara as although they are amazing carriers, their business model revolves around selling premium economy and premium seats which is not the case with AirAsia.
Since I was sitting in Row 2, wings/engines were behind me - which makes things interesting for photographers.
Zero obstruction view
Special Baggage Pass ( Air Asia - XPress Baggage ) for Premium Seat Selection
So if you are a travel freak and love to admire the nature around, I bet you would like to get a window seat in 1,2,3,4 seats which gives you the best possible view.
I paid recently INR 550 for the 3F seat, although it hurted my pocket a bit, but those 2 1/2 hours of flight time, I enjoyed
pretty much. Also, I got priority check-in and express baggage checkout which was icing on the cake.
So if you can afford to spend some extra bucks, absolutely try getting 1A, 1F as they have extra leg space or else target 2A,2F,3A,3F seats in the plane, most likely the AirAsia as you experience the premium without paying any premium amount.
