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Here’s a tech tip for you: start using Evernote. When I first signed up, I wasn’t sure exactly how to integrate it with my regular workflow. After using it regularly for a while though, it has completely won me over. The ability to document, store, tag, organize and search pretty much anything is a fantastic tool to me both at work and in my personal life. Like me, you may have heard about Evernote and then brushed it off as just a glorified note-taker. So to encourage you to take a second look, here are a few of the features that make it worth using.
1. An Inbox for Life
Use it as your daily personal journal, a repository for task lists (with reminders), random notes to yourself, articles to read, and essentially your entire digital life. With good tags in place, you can easily search every entry for later use. Take photos of your appliance/tool manuals and upload them to Evernote. Create and share task lists with coworkers. Basically, you never have to wonder about where you stored that random bit of information…chances are, it’s in Evernote.
2. Great Apps
Again, pretty much everything integrates with Evernote. Hundreds of apps in the Evernote app center help assemble the random bits of information in your life into one central, searchable system. For example:
If This Then That is a web and mobile app that you can program with all sorts of helpful tasks. For instance, you can set it up to send a text message to your spouse whenever you’re leaving the office. Or when someone tags a photo of you on Facebook, IFTTT can automatically upload it to Dropbox, Skydrive or Google Drive. It can do the same thing with your Tweets or Instagram updates. The possibilities aren’t endless, but they’re pretty close.
Scanner ProWith Scanner Pro, you can take photos of physical items like business cards, brochures, sales documents, and it will publish them to your Evernote account. The best part is that it recognizes the text in your photo so you can search that content later. It’s a $6.99 investment.
RefreshThe Refresh app aggregates information from across the web, including social media, to give you helpful insights about your next meeting/appointment. It can remind you of what you last discussed with this person and something they Tweeted about this week.
3. Backs up notes to the cloud
Evernote works with Android, iOS, Blackberry, Mac, PC, etc. Any item you save to Evernote syncs to your other devices and to the cloud.
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4. Collaboration
4. CollaborationA web app called “LiveMinutes,” allows multiple users to collaborate on a document and then automatically saves it
back to the Evernote notebook it was pulled from. Many people also use Evernote as a project management system by sharing tasks via notebooks with colleagues.
5. Detailed Note-Taker
It’s got great note-taking features and detailed formatting options. Enough said.
6. Evernote Moleskine Notebook
Evernote partnered with Moleskine to develop a physical notebook you could easily digitize and tag. Simply write and draw your notes, doodles, and chicken scratch the way you normally would. Then use a series of stickers as “tags” to identify important notes. Then, take a picture of your notes and upload it to Evernote. The sticker tags enable your doodles and notes to be searchable. Granted, after using this a bit, it’s a tad clunky. And though you may get more out of it than I did, it goes to show how Evernote is thinking outside the box to improve its service.
These are just a few of the reasons to reconsider using Evernote. Still skeptical? Check out this article on Lifehacker: “I’ve Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here’s Why It’s Actually Amazing.”
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