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I started using [http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html Google Notebook] (unfortunately now phased out) and eventually moved to [http://evernote.com Evernote], [http://wunderlist.com Wunderlist] and many other tools online that have help me to organize those old solutions to problems that once I knew and didn't have to use them until ... well until I needed them.
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To manage the amount of information on the web I started using [http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html Google Notebook] (unfortunately now phased out). Eventually, I moved to [http://evernote.com Evernote], [http://wunderlist.com Wunderlist] and many other tools online that have help me to organize those old solutions to problems that once I knew and didn't have to use them until ... well until I needed them.
  
 
===Information resources===
 
===Information resources===

Latest revision as of 12:29, 20 April 2013

Some tools

To manage the amount of information on the web I started using Google Notebook (unfortunately now phased out). Eventually, I moved to Evernote, Wunderlist and many other tools online that have help me to organize those old solutions to problems that once I knew and didn't have to use them until ... well until I needed them.

Information resources

A dictionary, a reference book, an encyclopedia are traditionally information resources where we found answers to old problems and questions. These days when we have a problem we go to the internet and find solutions in blogs, forums, sites specialized in giving answers and, of course, in Wikipedia!

Two heads are better than one

Apart from having tons of information available at the typing of our fingers (and an internet connection!) we have all together unleashed the power of collaboration. If "Two heads are better than one" imagine what million heads can do ... Well, the caveat is that it sometimes feels like a mess =)

So then why? ... why another site?

Well, simply put, because:

  • We all need one place where to keep and quickly find those answers to recurrent problems
  • Others may need the same answers and perhaps also a place where to put and share their own