Back in 2011 I wrote a post on Evernote.
Here is an portion of the content.
Evernote has been around and being developed since 2007-08. It is a life management system. It is yet another way to organize and store information. As we are continually barraged with more and more vital information via the Internet and other places, these types of programs are emerging to help us cope with it and organize it. Organizing on a new level just makes sense so we can be more productive and efficient.
Evernote is the new and improved, electronic version and so superior to the old methods, and obsolete ways of keeping on top of our lives. With the advent of the computer age, we soon had the world at our finger tips and the largest library in the world on each and every desktop. Now we not only have all of that but with Evernote we can pick and choose to store and massage anything on the Web and everywhere else. With Evernote you can simply highlight, copy and paste anything on the Internet with the Evernote Web Clipper. We can organize things of interest into our own private storage notebooks and notes and they are completely searchable by keywords and tags.
So if you see an article you want to read later or save? Evernote. You can delete anything once you no longer need it. You want to save photos and videos (coming soon) or music...Evernote. You want to keep your own notes from a conference or meeting or your study notes for any facet of your life...Evernote. You want to write or save blog posts, emails or documents...Evernote. You want to plan and organize events, projects, etc...Evernote. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what Evernote can do for you.
They call Evernote your external brain! There is a tremendous business application to using Evernote but the majority of their customers are just like you and me; ordinary people that want to be on top of their lives. I think it is great when we just want to de-stress and not have to remember so many things day and night. I have been using it for a quite awhile and I feel more relaxed because I can get to what I need in just a few seconds anywhere I am. It's in Evernote, not all racing around in my head or on endless sticky notes or stacks or papers.
For me the practical application for it with genealogy is keeping searchable research notes that don't have to be keyboarded or scanned in from my hand-written notes and they are searchable. Oh and did I mention you can also share with others and collaborate with them on various things should you wish? That has great family history application.
The other outstanding feature of Evernote to me is you can write your notes on the computer in the Evernote program or any of your mobile devices and then they become available to you anywhere when Evernote automatically saves and synchronizes all your devices. This varies from Dropbox where you can only store things from other places like your documents. Being able to create your notes right in the Evernote program is a deal maker for me.
Evernote is searchable by tags and keywords. So no more notes scribbled in a notebook and never found again. Yay! I am in love.
Evernote is easy and effective. And there is room for all of your interests and activities and goals and the like. It keeps things orderly and out of my way until you need them. What's not to love?
The way I like to learn about Evernote is line upon line. In my classes I teach the basics and then encourage people to find the resources they will need to move forward as they are ready. My feeling is that something that you introduce into your life to help you streamline and organize and remember important things should not be a stressful learning curve, eating up your time and energy in the process!
So this video below was created by Lisa Louise Cooke a well-known genealogy expert!
It has some of the things you can use to enhance your use of Evernote once you have the basics down. You can find her website at http://genealogygems.com. Her podcasts are fun and informative and lively. She also does lots of conferences, blogs and sells her merchandize on the site at fabulous prices. She is very knowledgeable and I have never heard her speak on genealogy and not learned something. The same for Evernote and she does a fabulous job of combining Evernote and Genealogy. Here on the link below she talks about some ways to enhance your use of Evernote.
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