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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 share how I use Notability for short-term notes along with Google Drive for longer term storage. I use three different note taking applications: Evernote, Notability, and Google Drive.  This may seem confusing, but I have rules about how I use each service. Evernote - this is my main note taking app.  It is where I store things to remember, book summaries, recipes, and all of my YouTube scripts.  If I'm going to type a note, it's usually going to be in Evernote. Notability - is what I use for handwritten notes.  So, that means diagrams, forms that need to be filled out, music notation, mind maps, and handwritten notes for training, classes, and clients. Google Drive - is where I keep all of my spreadsheets and presentations.  I think best in spreadsheet format, so that's where I plan most of my projects.  I also use Google Drive for notes or documents where for...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll share how I use Notability to create all kinds of diagrams and floor plans on my iPad. Notability is my go-to app for handwritten notes.  Or really anything that can't be put into a spreadsheet or typed out.  That means that it is the tool I use for pictographic images.  I have a basic tutorial video for Notability and one on how to use Notability for Mind Maps, but in this video, I'll show you how easy it is to create other kinds of diagrams and floor plans in Notability. I find it easy to sketch out diagrams or images that I'm going to use in a presentation in Notability before formalizing the design.  That way I can make tweaks before committing a lot of time and resources to the final design.   The nice thing is that Notability provides some tools to make your drawings easier and better without a lot of extra effort.   Let's go through them: Auto Sha...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you my summary and takeaways from the book -- Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin, PhD. I'm doing my residency as a mental health therapist and am reading a ton of books so that I can be as helpful as possible to my clients.  Some of these books, such as this one, fall pretty hard into the "training manual for clinicians" category, but it really helps me to synthesize the information better when I summarize for you, so I'm putting it out there for anyone who might be interested or is considering buying this book. The more research I do, the more convinced I become that our attachment history is at the heart of most of our relationship and emotional issues as adults.  By attachment, I mean the quality of the relationship with our primary caretaker as infants.  The more I learn, the more significant I believe the impact is -- on our sense of self, on our ab...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you my summary and takeaways from the book called Exaholics: Breaking Your Addiction to an Ex Love by Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm now a mental health therapist in residence and I have been reading as many books as I can on every condition, every human issue, every disorder so that I can be as helpful as possible to my clients.  And I figured, if I'm going to read these books -- I should share my summaries with you, so here goes. The book I read most recently is about Love Addicts, which the author, Lisa Marie Bobby, calls Exaholics.  The reason this book appeals to me is that after hearing account after account of the loss, grief, and anxiety that people go through after break-ups, it started to occur to me that love was pretty similar to an addiction -- and that breakups felt a lot like withdrawal.  This book is, by no means, the only one to make this claim, there are lots, but...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll share how I take notes when I am listening to audiobooks using a handheld recorder. I listen to a lot of audiobooks.  And for whatever reason, I prefer listening to non-fiction rather than fiction.  The problem is that it's much harder to take notes while I'm listening to a book.  And if you've seen any of my other videos, you'll know that in order to retain anything, I *have* to take notes since I have a world class bad memory.  I have tried lots of options, which I'll recount for you: First I tried using the bookmarks in the audiobook to mark passages that I want to go back to. This doesn't work for me.  First of all, it's kind of dangerous since I'm usually driving while I'm listening, plus it's never clear to me whether the bookmark starts earlier than when you hit it, so I'm always having to back up the audio, and let's be honest, I nev...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share how I speed up audio files using an iOS app called Audipo. I think this is my 3rd video on speeding up the playback of videos or audiobooks.  What can I say?  I prefer to listen at about 1.5 speed generally!   Recently I've been working a lot with audio files since many of the trainings that I've been doing offer only the options of listening to the training in a browser or downloading the audio.  Both of these options are problematic to me.  Listening in the browser is annoying since the sound doesn't always continue when you switch away from the browser and the controls are tiny and awkward.  Downloading the audio file means I can switch to another app while it's playing, but I have almost no controls in the standard iOS audio player.  There is not even a way to fast forward or rewind, let alone change the playback speed. So, I went looking...