Get More Organized with Evernote

How do you organize the tons of content that you are hit with each day? What do you do with the ideas, notes and to-do items that spring to mind throughout your work?

As a social media fan I have been getting a lot of use out of social bookmarking tools such as Delicious and even StumbleUpon. This has helped me store away web links, and organize them by tagging, but not the actual content.

For storing actual content that I find I have been using an excellent tool from Iterasi which allows you to “notarize” pages and save them online in folders and tagged for later access as if frozen in carbonite.

Evernote is a tool that aims to do both tasks, but in addition does a whole lot more, including text recognition in images – even hand written notes!

So you can record

I only heard about Evernote today from @masontech from DidIGetThingsDone, and I am glad I did.

The very best part, and the item that was most compelling to myself, was the fact that it syncs online, desktop and your iPhone. This means you have access to this content archive and all your notes wherever you are, even from your pocket.

So you can grab a piece of content from an ecommerce store or online review using your browser bookmarklet or plugin, and store it on the Evernote website. Later you can pick that note up while shopping on your iPhone. When you get home you can log into your desktop application and organize everything.

Very cool.

It does not end there. You Get Things Done fans can use Evernote to help you with your GTD productivity processes, as shown in this article. Very cool.

For now I am using a free account but will be upgrading to the premium account as it is only $5 a month which upgrades your capacity, speeds up image processing and removes the advertising.

Do you use Evernote or anything like it? Please let me know in the comments …

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Productivity, Software Tools

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6 Responses to “Get More Organized with Evernote”

  1. Oli from the-iBlog on June 5th, 2009 7:36 pm

    Great little review.

  2. Troy Malone on June 6th, 2009 6:57 am

    Great overview of Evernote. It is a tremendous offering and I love the iPhone app. I use it together with Pelotonics. I just talked with the Evernote gang today and we are scheduling a webinar that will explain getting to Inbox Zero using Evernote and Pelotonics together.

    Very cool stuff!

  3. Lynn on June 11th, 2009 11:39 pm

    I’ve been using Evernote for years. They made some significant changes to the software about a year or so ago and I wasn’t sure I would like the sync feature because I store a lot of very sensitive data in my Evernote database. However, once I discovered I could still have databases that weren’t allowed to sync, I migrated to the current edition. I use the sync for many things, but I keep some of my databases local only. :) I love Evernote and recommend it to everyone I know.

  4. Evan on June 13th, 2009 4:04 pm

    Nice article. I’ve been using Evernote for a month or two now, and I’ve even started keeping my offline life in it. I scan bills and receipts into a folder that Evernote monitors. I then have those archived, and can also pay my bills even if I don’t have the paper bill with me.

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  6. Tom on June 25th, 2009 4:15 pm

    It looks quite promising. I have never read about it before. I will test it. The question is, how secure is it.

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