Author Archives: Mark Fisher

A 3L’s Ideal Notetaking and Revision Method

No one really teaches you how to study or how to take notes. Over my undergraduate to my graduate studies I have moved from plain paper notebooks, to exclusive laptop use, to a hybrid of both. It is a difficult problem to solve because everyone has his or her own method: some go lo-fi with [...]

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Automatic Backups to USB Flash Drives

I do a lot of my study and note-taking in the library. Unfortunately my library doesn’t offer wireless printing. Instead I have to copy my work to my flash drive, go to one of the Windows terminals in the library, open my files from the USB drive and print my work from there. I have [...]

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Getting Stuff Into Yojimbo with AppleScript (Part 2 of 2)

A Better Save PDF to Yojimbo Script
In Part I of this article, I provided instructions for an AppleScript, to be used in conjunction with Quicksilver, to help you easily import items (PDFs, txt and web links) from the Desktop or Finder into Yojimbo, tag and file them into the relevant folder collections, all in one [...]

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Getting Stuff Into Yojimbo with AppleScript (Part 1 of 2)

I have become quite the fan of Yojimbo – a ‘digital junk drawer’ application from Bare Bones Software. It is great place to store all those bits and pieces of electronic material that enter your life on a daily basis.
Yojimbo offers a number of different ways of importing your stuff into its database. By ’stuff’ [...]

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Organizing Your Digital Law School Life

Given that our North American friends are just settling back into law school, I thought I would pull together a quick post to help you stay on top of all the information and material that will be bombarding you.
Fortunately we can get most of our material in a digital format. Cases and legislation are available [...]

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