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Re: How I Use Evernote

lisalisalisalisa — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:38:52 -0000

I just started with Evernote and find it a great way to keep track of potential christmas gifts. My 3yr old has even gotten involved asking me to take camera pics of her wishlist items to send to santa (who's address is at Evernote).

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Noemi — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:04:07 -0000

Just came across your blog, loving it and plowing through all your posts. Re Evernote, I use it a lot for receipts of bills, but also great to take screen grabs of recipes, and love the hand writing recognition side of it. I use my iMac camera to take a snapshot of business cards, nicely searchable and always accessible on my iPod.

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dubai — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:49:59 -0000

Evernote is a fantastic soft specially pdf warehouse and Evidence Locker features.Using iPhone i can fulfill my all needs, may be personal or official through Evernote.

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dubai — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:51:41 -0000

EVERNOTE-a great soft. to make note,snaps,format.....simply a amazing combination. and a companion to make my work more easier.FANTASTIC soft!!!!

Re: How I Use Evernote

Steved — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:04:24 -0000

it's good but beware to my eyes it is missing features:
big one:
no linking from anything to anything within evernote.
notes aren't urls so you can not link to something specific in evernote from outside

so generally no linking to anything ( from inside or outside) in evernote

Re: How I Use Evernote

jxpx777 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:39:02 -0000

Follow the thread. I was talking to "air."

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Wagner Brenner — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:58:30 -0000

The man did a great post and you go "try it out before your comment"?
Maybe you can try to get a life "before your comment".

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replicantx — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:21:21 -0000

I was using it as well, but google just announced that it was stopping development of notebook. You can now import all your notebooks into evernote.

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Jennifer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:15:05 -0000

I LOVE Evernote too. I use it to clip recipes I find on the web. I can then pull them up from my iPhone when I'm at the grocery store ready to pick up items to make it! Works great for those last minute trip to the store.

Re: How I Use Evernote

sjjoyner — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:22:58 -0000

Thanks - I'm convinced!
As an intranet consultant (with an iPhone) this tool will be invaluable. I'm thinking I'll be taking snapshots of client's screens and printed artefacts.... Not to mention whiteboarded wireframes :-)

Cool.

Re: How I Use Evernote

Brian — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:08:08 -0000

I'm new to Evernote, but I can definitely see a use for it. I use a clipboard manager to keep up with all my important snippets and data. I can also share your affection for office supplies. I work at an online office supply company so I get to "test" all the latest and greatest office supply products. New office chairs, new pens, new everything. After I "test" them, I get to write a review of them for our site. It sounds like you would like my job?

Re: How I Use Evernote

lotro gold — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:23:07 -0000

Evernote is on its way to great, but for it to truly be a killer app for me, I want it to extract the data on print materials I photograph and allow me to attach it to other material.

Best use case I can think of here is business cards. IBM's Penseive app looks like it may will do this if they ever get it into production: you take a picture of a business card, it recognizes it as a business card and pulls all the vitals off of it (name, phone number, address, e-mail) and lets you tag that info with a picture of the person.

Would work the same way with receipts. Extract the dollar amount and place where expense was incurred, etc. All sorts of possibilities there.

Evernote has the momentum and I think it could take Penseive head-on.

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Marsadie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:10:36 -0000

Hmm, I'm using Google Notebook at the moment, wonder how this compares...

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Justin L — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:10:32 -0000

Actually, you can also use Evernote for to-dos as well. You can easily add check boxes into any note and turn that item into a to-do.

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Makina — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:23:42 -0000

Thank you. We were trying to figure out what we could do about this and this article was the best by far we found.

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Playa Azul Michoacan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:53:51 -0000

This is the first time I heard about Evernote and I actually don't have any idea what it is until now. Thanks for an informative post.
-M from Mexico

Re: How I Use Evernote

Harry F — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:10:21 -0000

OMG, LOL, ETC.

What you said. I just told a dozen friends about the "big ass junk drawer." It's been a lifesaver. I am totally AR about folders, subfolders and drilling down twenty levels to find what I need on the desktop unit. I tried several file sync programs, but this has given me what I need to be really helpful at a client office without being tied to the laptop or TREO (forgive me - no iPhone).

I began with the free product and was having a great time until one of my clients mentioned that I could just file her proofs in Evernote and give her a quick review when we next met.

Great idea! Cheap update! Lots of stuff done now!

I'm giving my contacts a workout tomorrow spreading the work AGAIN. Wake up, people. This thing is GREAT!.

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Carl F. McKinney — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:33:30 -0000

What a great post. I was just getting antiquated with Evernote and wanted to know how to begin to more fully utilize it's services.

Thank you

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sjc — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:10:14 -0000

hello. i am just discovering evernote and loved your post. is there any chance you could write a follow up or share how to do each of the things you mentioned. i am particularly interested in capturing web info both images, screenshots and urls, organizing and importing pdfs, bookmarks, receipts etc. I am new to the mac world and I really just don't know how to do it. I am quite sure it is incredibly easy, but haven't been able to get it all to work. Any help you could offer would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

Re: How I Use Evernote

Guy Adams — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:23:16 -0000

A nice article Brett and a great intro into the potential of Evernote.

I've recently seen the light and am slowly migrating from Microsoft OneNote, I blogged about it here;

http://www.guyontechnology....

Thanks

Re: How I Use Evernote

themoonseeker — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:44 -0000

Great post!

1. I use google notebooks to take notes,
2. I use my harddisk to store pdf's,
3. I use del.icio.us for bookmarking,
4. I use Remember the milk for todo's
5. And I use Snipplr for snippets

After reading your use cases, I think I can use 1, 2 and 5 with Evernote. I'll try this way.

Finally, I think Evernote is a awesome service, but it isn't addictive as GMail or Google Reader..

THX

Re: How I Use Evernote

DanGTD — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:53:04 -0000

The Web Clipper is great for tying together a number of web-pages for a specific purpose, like planning for a vacation, working on a project, making a list of recipes, etc

Much better than organizing favorites in folders, like in a browser.

Re: How I Use Evernote

Sean Oliver — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:57:36 -0000

Super powerful tool. I like the "evidence locker"

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Kathy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:04:59 -0000

Nice post. I've never used Evernote but this looks interesting, should really try it some time :).

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mvardy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:35:47 -0000

I got a hold of the Evernote Beta and have my assistant toying around with it.. After reading this article, Brett, I can see how I can use it to far greater potential. I'll start applying these tips as it pertains to my work.