I can’t tell enough people about Evernote
Every time I get around anyone who had lots of stuff to keep track of (which is almost everyone) I wave the Evernote flag. Even when I go to Canada each summer I try and get others to know about this set-up.
Yesterday I scanned two more books into my Evernote. Editable PDFs that are immediately added to my research folders. A 400 page book scans into Evernote in about 3 minutes and can be placed into as many folders as desired.
I love the geotag aspect that allows me to find notes I wrote in various locations. I’m an older guy who’s beginning to forget things. But Evernote doesn’t. I was at the airport in Chicago on my way to Canada for my summer speaking engagement and pulled out Evernote at the airport and jotted a little thought. By the tie I got to my location to speak I had totally forgotten what the note was. But with Evernote I was able to search notes by location and simply go to the note I had written in Chicago (I live in California) and there it was.
The ability to search notes by tag is fantastic. You must learn the discipline of simply adding as many tags as you wish when you add in a new note and you will see it show up in any tag catagory you’ve created.
Since I’ve been using Evernote for years I now have hundreds of folders (each folder containing many notes) and hundreds of tags. So now I can easily go back and find things I’ve worked hard to save at an earlier point in my research.
The free Evernote web clipper is a great tool. Again by using the tagging aspect I can save, not the web url, but the entire article even though it may be several pages long. For example, I’m a huge fantasy football guy and when I come to a lengthy web article that perhaps goes into great detail on multiple aspects, I can clip it and tag it it right into whatever fantasy football folders I may have created in my Evernote i.e. draft strategy, positions, team facts, etc.
I could go on and on about this product. Photos? Recipes? Medical notes? Family records? Receipts? Car info? You name it, and you have it right at your fingertips on your phone, iPad, and any computer you sit down at after logging into your own Evernote account.
You can send an important email directly to the dedicated folder of your choice so it doesn’t get forgotten. You can set up reminders. You can speak a note directly into a folder. You can locate every single note that has a particular word in it. Once you have thousands of notes, as I do, you’ll begin to see the pay off of using this system.
Ok, I’ll stop. But if you don’t have Evernote… you should start!!!
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