A few weeks ago I posted about a web-based note-taking service called EverNote (original post).  Since then, I’ve found EverNote so useful that I’ve gone ahead and bought the year of service and find myself using it daily.  It’s become so ubiquitious in my everyway work and home routines, that I don’t know how I could operate without it.  Some examples of what I’ve done with it:

  • Cataloging all of the various Training Certificates required for work as PDF’s or PNG Screenshots
  • Cataloging LOTS of web-based PDF magazines
  • Storing research papers used at work as PDF’s
  • Keeping online bill-pay receipts.  Instead of "Print this page for your records", I either Print it to EverNote as a PDF (Built-in feature on a Mac), or grab a screenshot and save it to EverNote.
  • Creating a Christmas List.  This one has been a huge success.  I created a special public album and I put in web clippings and pictures of things the kids point out they want for Christmas, and then sent the link to all the family.
  • Business Cards.  No need to keep the paper cards anymore.
  • Taking notes during conferences.  And this one dovetails into the next one:
  • Turning notes into Trip Reports on the Airplane.  Since they have a great Desktop Client, I can type the notes up on my Macbook in-flight, and have them synced back to the cloud when I land, and then I can view them via the web-interface at work!
  • Websites.  Websites that contain something interesting or important that I will use later, rather than bookmarking them I can just clip them into EverNote.

It’s so incredibly useful.  The image recognition support is great and proves useful alot, but just having access to everything in a nice easy sortable and taggable way, with access from the iPhone, my LapTop, and any web browser makes it a valuable tool.  If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend it.

Any other ideas for ways to use evernote? [tag:evernote]