Every once in awhile an app comes along with an idea that makes so much sense, you can’t believe no one thought of it first. Every once in awhile you find yourself using an app that you can’t figure out how you managed to live without. Licorize manages the impossible by being both.

So, What Is Licorize?

Think about your day. You check your RSS reader…your Twitter feed…your Facebook…then there are the links people share with you…maybe you subscribe to the LinkedIn Q&A section…

How Convenient Is Convenient?

VERY. Licorize offers:

• A Firefox Plugin
• A Chrome Extension
• A Safari Extension
• An Opera Custom Button
• A Bookmarklet-Well, two bookmarklets. One is for Licorizing and another is for reminding you about what you licorized.
• A Script to Bookmark By Hand for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
• A WordPress Plugin

What Happens When I Try to Licorize a Web Page?

The URL and the Title of the page are pre-filled in by Licorize-though they are editable. Underneath that, there is space for notes. Moving further down, you can choose what project to file the page under and who to assign it to. The person doesn’t need to have a Licorize account to receive assignments-although if you’re a helpful friend or co-worker, you’re probably going to strongly suggest that they get one. The last line includes a slot for tags-just like how you would tag something in Delicious or Diigo.

• To-do
• Idea
• Goal
• Image
• Note
• Milestone
• Reminder
• Meeting
• Worklog
• Effort
• Cost
• Budget
• Contact: person
• Company

Ok, I’ve Licorized a Bunch of Stuff, Now What?

Well, the first step would be to go to the Licorize site and login.

Once you login, the home screen is divided into 2 columns. On the left you have a “chronology” of the posts you Licorized-with the Title, URL, a picture of the web page, what project it belongs to, and any tags you have listed.

• Projects-allows you to see what you bookmarked for each project and make any edits to the listed bookmarks or manage you projects listed.
• Types-Remember the options you can choose from when you bookmark a web page? Here you can view your bookmarks by the options you tagged them as.
• Tags-Works just like Delicious or Diigo-allows you to search through your bookmarks based on tags.
• Calendar-This is a nifty feature that I’ve never seen in a bookmark manager before-you can view your bookmarks by date.

In the upper left hand corner, there are a few more options to choose from:

• Home-This bring you back to your Licorize account’s home base.
• Workweek-This is one of Licorize’s amazing features-a calendar pops up allowing you to add boomarks to your calendar in a task management form, ensuring that those bookmark related tasks actually get done.
• Weekly Review-Another one of Licorize’s unique and amazing features-Licorize allows you to review all the things you bookmarked for the week, including what category you bookmarked them under, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks.
• People-This is the Licorize community. There’s also the ability to see who you have sent tasks to through Licorize.
• Help-Easy access to Licorize’s contact and help information.

• Your Profile-including a public gravatar and URL option.
• Work Settings-allowing you to set up what days and hours you work, along with how many projects to show.
• Your Booklet-allowing you to create a customizable CSS-styling for your booklet to share.
• Your Account Information-pretty self-explanatory.
• Connections-here’s where you can integrate Licorize with Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, an RSS feed, Read It Later, and Skype.
• Change Password-again, pretty self-explanatory.
• License-Where you can upgrade or delete your account.

What About my Delicious Bookmarks?

Are there any other Licorize integration options?

Licorize covers integration in detail on their blog:

• Licorize Update: Released Twitter Integration and More
• Licorize Beta Update: LinkedIn Integration
• Licorize and Evernote Integration
• Using Licorize and Read It Later (or Even Instapaper)

Pricing Information:

Personally, I’ve fallen in love with Licorize and life without it seems like a distant nightmare-I highly recommend it for anyone-especially web workers. Do yourself a favor and give Licorize a shot.

For More Information on Licorize:

• Licorize: Site in Detail Table of Contents
• Licorize Blog: “8 Innovative Uses for Delicious” Are Much More Innovative Seen from Licorize
• Lifehacker: Licorize Turns Your Bookmarklets into Tasks, Goals, and Other Actionable Items
• Make Use Of: Licorize: A Collaborative & Intelligent Information Organizer Online
• WebWorkerDaily: Licorize Makes Bookmarks More Useful

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The Evernote Mac app greeted me today with a software update, telling me that it is able to sync files to the cloud. Nice!

Before we began, if you haven’t heard about Evernote, I strongly suggest you try it, here’s an article containing more information about what Evernote is capable of. Basically Evernote lets you create notes which you can access via the web app, desktop app or on your iPhone. Your notes are stored in the cloud, meaning – you can access your notes everywhere. 

If you only have a free account like I do (which is very sufficient in my opinion!), you can only sync images (JPEG/PNG/GIF), audio (MP3/WAV), PDF and digital ink files, not too bad!

Here’s a prompt I got when I tried to attach a non supported file type to the Mac app with my free account. It tells me to upgrade to the Premium account to synchronize any file type. 

How it works? Let’s try PDF syncing to test this new feature.

How do you attach a file (PDF, images, audio) into your Evernote?

- Create a new note

- Drag and drop the file (PDF file for this instance)

- Sync your note

Your PDF on the web app

You’ll see your new PDF as part of your sea of notes.

Your PDF will appear as an attachment on the web app, clicking it will enable you to download it. Unfortunately there’s no way you can view the PDF directly on the web app. But I’m not complaining as I’m always using the Mac and iPhone app.

Your PDF on the iPhone

Fortunately you can view your synchronized PDF right from your iPhone!

Click on the attachment to view the PDF on the note itself.

Great! PDF synchronization to view it on your desktop and on the go. :)

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Here’s 20 great iPhone apps you can use in a day from 8am to 12midnight. To make it more interesting, let’s create a character to use these nifty apps and call him Suberman!

Here goes (click on icon for direct iTunes link, click on link for developer’s website):

		Friday Morning
		08:00am: Alarm clock goes off on a beautiful Friday morning, Suberman wakes up, launches Tweetsville on his iPhone and tweet “Good Morning world”.
		08:30am: All washed up and off he went, to the nearby Starbucks to have some breakfast. Grabs a Grande Cafe Latte and some muffins. Records his breakfast spends on Money Trackin.
		08:38am: While having breakfast, he decides to update himself with some RSS feeds on NewsStand.
		08:45am: While reading RSS feeds, he heard a great song Starbucks is playing, but didn’t know the name of the song, Shazam came to the rescue.
		09:15am: Finishing up his last bits, he quickly catches up with his friends via Facebook and updated his status.
		09:20am: Also checked out his buddy’s Flickr via Exposure for last night’s crazy party!
		09:30am: Before getting too late for work, Suberman left Starbucks and checks his email on the way to work. Replies to an important thread using Wide Email for easy typing in landscape mode.
		10:30am: Upon reaching his workplace, he syncs his iMac with all his to-dos for the day which he compiled last night on Things.
		Lunch Time
		12:00pm: After a very productive half of the day, completing all his to-dos, he did lunch while checking out Digg on Scoop for some latest juicy articles.
		12:15pm: He discovered that his favourite gadget is available today! He converted the price to local currency with Measures. Not a bad price!
		01:00pm: Finished lunch, back at his workdesk, he eagerly launched Safari browser for the online gadget store. Entered his credit card number stored in his E-Wallet to buy the gadget he saw earlier. Shopping is done.
		Dinner Time
		06:00pm: Time to knock off! Headed straight to the famous Italian restaurant in town to meet her fiance for dinner. But she’s not there yet! Suberman settles down on his reserved table, logs on to MSN via Fring and saw her fiance online. “I’m finishing my blog post and will be there soon!”, she says.
		06:10pm: While waiting for her fiance, he started racing with Black Mamba on the very addictive Black Mamba Racer game to kill some time.
		06:30pm: Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he looks up and saw his fiance. They started by ordering steak and a bottle of red wine recommended by the restaurant. The wine is here, he took a sip and says wow! Great tasting wine! He takes a picture of the wine label with Evernote and stores it in the cloud.
		07:30pm: They continued having great conversations over dinner. While on a music topic, her fiance couldn’t remember the name of the frontman from this band she was gossiping about. Suberman launched Wikipanion to search for the band, and impressed her fiance with the name.
		08:30pm: What awesome dinner! Suberman calls for check. Paid the bill and not forgetting the tips calculated with Tipulator.
		After Dinner
		08:40pm: Grocery shopping for the week is next! Suberman checks off the grocery list on Grocery IQ in the supermart. The couple left happily after buying all the much needed items.
		10:00pm: With lots of groceries, the love birds finally reaches home, kicks back and enjoys music from their favourite station on Last.fm app with the iPhone docked onto the music player.
		10:15pm: Suberman heard his favourite tune, decided to play it on guitar to serenade his fiance. Took out his classic Fender acoustic guitar and starts tuning it with Guitar Toolkit before starting to play. What a romantic way to end a lovely Friday evening.
		Turning In
		11:30pm: It’s time to turn in after a long fulfilling day. Suberman reads a classic story book via Classics in bed.
		11:40pm: Saw a word he don’t understand and checks out the meaning with Wordbook. New word learnt!
		12:00pm: They fell asleep shortly after.
		12:01am: Good night.

Stay tuned as Suberman will return!

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