Despite my best attempts at organization (as in Tina's Post-It Notes in the background), often there are magazine articles, web links, documents or some random camera phone image that I know I will need, but don't want to store it until that random day in the future. Enter Evernote. Available for your PC, iPhone and iPad, it's an app that can help you organize all your extraneous stuff!
One of my colleagues at work has gone completely paperless at home with Evernote. I was suspicious at such a bold claim, so I looked further into the service and thought it worth sharing.
Take a picture of some text? It will be processed, indexed and made searchable. Screenshot a webpage? Same thing. You can tag your notes, photos and screenshots to make organization even easier. It even has GPS connectivity for "location awareness," so imagine apartment or house hunting...all your photos of a particular address can already be sorted according to location! Like a bottle of wine? Take a pic of the label and you'll be able to search for it instead of manually flipping through those 300 images taking up space on your phone.
Here is a great introduction to their service via YouTube:'
They have an entire YouTube channel of tutorials and helpful tips for Mac, Windows, iPad and iPhone users. You can also check out Unplggd's great write-up about it and their 8 ways to increase your Evernote productivity.
This could also be handy for personal documents for emergency purposes as I suggested last week. I definitely want to look further into the security of keeping sensitive personal docs on a third party site, but it could be a really great solution.
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I LOOOOVE Evernote! The more you use it the more ways you find to use it. I use it to clip decorating ideas from blogs, recipes off the internet, track grocery lists (I can add to while at work or home and it'll be on my phone for when I'm at the store), I keep notes of work projects/conversations, any non-Kindle ebooks go in it, I use it for my personal journal, planning vacations, storing tax returns and receipts, I forward important emails to it....it's just so incredibly versatile.
OH MY WORD, I adore Evernote so much. There's a great post on Bake-It about meal planning (http://bakingit.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/meal-planning/), and I use it for webpages to read later, books to read, lecture notes... WHY WOULD YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE.
Evernote is so essential to my life I do not even know where to begin. And not to nic-pick, it's on the mac as well, and a much better interface. I have a personal account where I keep everything - a notebook just for recipes that I also share with my family, random notes for my art work, invoices and payment, passwords (there is an encryption feature for text), images i love, I can go on and on.
And I have incorporated it into work and we are looking at a wider adoption for keeping our notes, papers, articles, etc. It's amazing -
Just learning evernote here, but it is SO much better than the Mark Space Fliq notes I had been using, and even better than the Mac notes app.
My only hesitation: I used to keep a secured note of passwords. I don't know if Evernote is secure enough for that, so I will probably keep passwords with the Mac application (since I don't sync that).
Everything else: evernote!
I was interduced to this program by my tech loving boyfirend. I constanly had pieces of paper all over or my computer desktop was completely covered. I've got to say, I LOVE IT! I don't use it for secure documents but for keeping track of design ideas (I'm an interior designer) to use for current or future projects it is working wonderfully. I espcally love the ability to tag the image and have a link built into the 'note'.