Several months ago, I wrote a review of Evernote, and I very much liked the program. In fact, I like it so much that I’ve discovered new ways to use it, and I wanted to share my observations.
First, if you didn’t read the earlier review, Evernote is a cross-platform program that allows you to capture and access information in multiple places and across multiple devices. Captured items can be tagged and organized into different notebooks.
When I was writing the social media proposal for my restaurant client, I did some research on how other restaurants were using social media. I organized all my research in Evernote. I clipped web pages, imported .pdf files and wrote my notes. When I finished the proposal, I imported it into Evernote. When you sign up for an Evernote account, you even get an Evernote email address. This allows you to forward or bcc your Evernote account on emails. Truly you can keep everything associated with a project in one place.
You can tag notes as To-Do items, which allows you to use it as a task manager as well. If I didn’t love Action Lists for my iPhone so much, I would use Evernote as my task manager. But imagine being able to aggregrate everything from a project: emails, notes, websites, task lists, etc in one place. No more fumbling from one folder, computer, etc to another.
Your on-line account syncs to every device using Evernote, so I can get to all my files from both computers and my iPhone. Evernote works on most smartphones, so you can have it with you all the time.
I use it to jot down blog post ideas, clip and save websites, write reminder notes and keep work-related documents. If I’d really been thinking on my last trip, I would have saved my itinerary and other electronic trip documents in Evernote. Next time!
I’ve been meaning to keep a journal for years. Everytime I start, I end up stopping because I haven’t found a good way to keep the journal up to date on my portable device and computer. Not a problem any longer. I set up a “Journal” notebook in Evernote. Now I can write at my computer or on my phone, and the same information is in both places.
Anyone else use Evernote and want to share your experiences? Any questions for me about how to use Evernote to better manage tasks and documents?
Tags: iPhone, task management