Don’t Take Notes- Snap Them With Evernote

Evernote web snapThe Public Service Announcement for the day is for those who are always stopping to jot notes in a notebook. You see a notice on a board, or even something on a computer screen, so you jot it down before you forget it. I’m here to save you a lot of time with this tip. Use Evernote, and instead of jotting notes down everywhere, snap them with your phone camera.

Evernote is the note-taking app extraordinaire that lives on the web and does some seriously good things with your notes. The time saver I am sharing is the best way to get those notes into the system. When you see that sign, the notice on the board, or even something on your computer screen that bears remembering, pull out your smartphone and snap a photo in Evernote. There are versions of Evernote for the BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile, so just about every smartphone is covered. The desktop is covered with both Mac and Windows versions to go along with the web version that works in just about any browser.

Once you snap the photo in Evernote, it is sent to your notebook in the cloud where some cool things happen to it. First and foremost, Evernote looks at your photo image, and if it sees any words in the image, it indexes them for searching. That means that from now on, you can search for a word and every saved image that contains that word will be shown to you. Simple and easy. Try it, and you’ll quickly see how powerful this can be. This is by no means the only way to use Evernote, but I’ll share more on that soon.

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