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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how I text and email handwritten thank yous and other notes. I know that handwritten snail mail notes are still the gold standard for thank you letters.  However, I am convinced that our standards have to be shifting a little with all of the new and more commonly used ways of communicating.  I already use a fun service called Felt to send handwritten snail mail cards with photos and other elements  — you can see my video on that if you are interested.  But I think it is becoming more acceptable to send gratitude, sympathy and other regards through quicker modes of communicating. It seems somewhat insane to pop a card in the mail to have it arrive 4 days later when you can send an email that will be received in seconds.  My problem is that I find the typewritten e-cards that are available a little too impersonal.   Some people love animated cards lik...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I use both Evernote and Notability together for notetaking and record keeping. I use my two traditional note-taking products: Evernote and Notability.  I consider Evernote my main note repository since it is fully Cross-platform That means that Evernote has an app (in my case) for the iPhone, iPad, software for the PC, and a web-based format as well.  So, I can get to my notes from any of these devices, from someone else's phone, or from anywhere I happen to be.  My notes are stored in the cloud and are replicated across all of these platforms.  This is important to me.  I have over 3,000 notes and I refer to them regularly.  When I am deciding which app to use for a note, Evernote is my default choice if the content of the note will be text-based.  Any note where typing is the mode of input goes immediately into Evernote.  I onl...

Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how I use the Felt App from my iPad to send beautiful handwritten, personalized greeting cards and thank you notes without ever getting up from my chair.  Perhaps this is a little antiquated. After all, I’m someone who retrieves the snail mail from my mailbox approximately once per week. It usually looks like this. I’m pretty sure my mailman hates me.  But for me, there are some occasions when a text or email just won’t do.  Thank yous are always better in print.  Plus, I have some traditional older folks in my life who insist on greeting cards to celebrate occasions. Now, this is something I didn’t grow up with. My parents did not send greeting cards.  They were cheap in almost every way, so we tended to make cards from scratch.  So, I still prefer to send something a little more personalized than just a signed greeting card. And now, I have found an a...