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The Best Plain Text Note-Taking Apps for Every Platform

There are countless note-taking apps available, but most of them tie you down in one way or another. Many of them use their own format for notes, making it tough to move notes between apps. Even worse, you never know when they might disappear, taking your data with them. There’s a simple alternative to these apps: plain text. You can be pretty sure you’ll be able to open a plain text file in twenty years, which is something you can’t say about many file types. All you need is an app that makes it easy to create, edit, and search your notes. Mac There’s a… Read more

How to Repair Damaged DWG Files with Recovery Toolbox

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Recovery Toolbox. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence even when a post is sponsored. If there was a league table of professional file formats that home users don’t come across very often, then DWG would probably top that chart, or at least be in the top five. The CAD file format used by AutoCAD and other venerable old drafting software is old but solid. Latterly, it found use in the world of 3D graphics as an interchange format, allowing users to switch from one 3D… Read more

Notion: An Alternative Note-Taking App to Replace Evernote

You have plenty of choices when it comes to note-taking apps. Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, Bear, and Simplenote are just some of your options. What if you’re looking for something different though? Notion is a promising new app that takes what we usually think of a note-taking app and turns it on its ear. Not only does it tack on a bunch of new features, but it also rethinks how we approach documents in the first place. Notion in a Nutshell The Notion website describes it as an “all-in-one workspace.” What this means is that you can keep all your notes, documents, tasks, projects, and… Read more

How to Easily Resize an Image without Installing an Image Editor

Whether you need to create a thumbnail for your latest YouTube video or need to resize an image for your website, you don’t need a powerful image editor like Photoshop. No matter what OS you use, there’s a quicker and easier way to resize images. And as an added bonus, they’re all free. Download an Image First thing’s first, download your image. If you already have your image, feel free to skip ahead. To save an image from the Internet, simply right-click it and select “Save Image As” in the drop-down menu. Which image format you decide to save the picture in is entirely… Read more

Power-user: A Robust Productivity Add-in for PowerPoint and Excel

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by the Power-user team. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. We all know how hard it is to create an engaging and mind-enriching presentation. You sit down at your computer and swear to be productive. The next thing you know, six hours have passed, and you’ve wasted most of the time drawing charts and scouring the Internet for images to spice up your presentations. Making an engaging Excel or Powerpoint presentation is a real challenge. What if there were add-ins… Read more