Friday TechTips

Good Friday afternoon everyone!

Today’s tip is Evernote from the fine team at http://evernote.com. Evernote is a VERY useful “web clipping” tool that is highly flexible and can be used in just about anyway you can creatively imagine. Using Evernote, you create “notes” to yourself to remind you of:

• work to-do items
• shopping lists
• capture a photo or image you want to remember
• leave yourself a voice note
• paste in a web site or text you want to remember later
• include a pdf in your notes for later review
• your idea here!

It’s very handy with so many different uses. Maybe the best way to describe it is that it’s an organizer for things you want to remember, now matter what format or media type. And instead of me yammering on about it why don’t you watch the introductory video:

Best of all, Evernote is free and has mobile versions for the iPhone & iPod Touch, and Windows Mobile Devices (sorry BlackBerry users, at least for now). Perhaps most importantly, there are desktop clients available for both Windows and Mac integrating all of your notes into your daily work without having to necessarily surf to their site in your browser. Give it a try and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. And don’t take my word for it, here are some real world examples:

Knitters using Evernote - http://spice.littlefeetbigsky.com/2008/10/01/iphone-knitting
Bloggers using Evernote - http://www.idano.net/new-blogging-tool-evernote-on-my-iphone-380.htm
20 Awesome Ways to User Evernote - http://www.inquisitr.com/2179/evernote-why-it-will-make-it-20-awesome-ways-to-use-it

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