Where has my Saturday gone? Cantata Practice, two hours at the office, and a nap during the Mountaineer basketball game perhaps? Just wanted to follow up my "Tech Savvy Office" post. I got a helpful tip toward the program Evernote, a cloud based research tool, and my Son John guided me through the process of creating a "public folder" that allowed me to share the photograph dense, six page PDF, 2010 Hunter Family Christmas Newsletter with 100 people. I allowed me to create a shortened URL that I could e-mail. Now I have lost that feature from my toolbar and will have to call him again to help me find it. As of now, I notice these cloud based programs tend to slow down my computer. Not much problem at the office where I have a high speed cable connection, but noticeable here where we have Hughesnet Satellite. I have been pretty disappointed at the intermittent service problems I have had with Hughesnet, but being 5.2 miles south of the main highway, I have no other choice. Evernote is great in theory, but so far, in spite of watching several video tutorials, it isn't intuitive enough for me. I will persevere because I see cloud based computer as the inevitable "new thing". Snagit has become easier. I downloaded a new version, and can cut and paste anything from any page. So far it is more useful to me than evernote, although I crave having a listmaker and task list creator that is quicker and less formal than Outlook. I spent several hours this week consolidating my Pathagorized forms and made and sent to several colleagues templates for a letter we send to clients to help them understand how to respond to our opponents' "discovery requests" and the four documents that a lawyer needs when she/he needs to withdraw from representing a client. I copied Roy Lazris of Pathagoras.com (designer/president) who was kind enough to respond with observations and tips. So far, that has never happened to me with Bill Gates! I will be setting up a Pathagoras Form subfolder in my DropBox folder, so anyone I authorize can download a form or upload one for the use of others. I really think it will benefit family law practitioners, and attorneys in small offices who have difficulty finding time to design new office practice systems. This is fun for me, but a real chore for others, parents of young children, lawyers who have failed to keep up with technology, etc. In the long run, I feel that sharing what I known benefits me as much as the person I share with. It softens a bit my reputation of being tough to deal with. I am tough to deal with versus those how are rough or abusive to my client, NOT to lawyers or parties who show us respect and consideration.