Evernote - A practical Guide and bunch of resources
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Evernote is a great tool for keeping up with everything in your life. For me, it does not replace Dropbox. I use Dropbox for actual files, but I use Evernote for organizing information.
Capture anything - Text, images, voice and works on all devices (PC/Mac/iOs/Andriod/Web)
Evernote has a great search tool - Use tags to help organize your notes, you can highlight notes (great for sharing)
Example of types of notes that can be made in Evernote (a shared Evernote notebook)
Tips and Hints
You can make one account for your personal life and one for your school or combine them into one.
Save everything, voice, pictures, docs, text, list - whatever you can imagine
Share individual notes or notebooks with family, friends, professional connections
Make folders
Share individual notes or folders (web interface)
New Features - Set Reminders
Webclipper - You can install the Webclipper and clip parts of all of a webpage to Evernote
*** Screen Capture - When you install Evernote you also install a screen capture program that is in the system tray on Windows and on the Toolbar on MacOS. and then using Skitch program you can annotate the capture.
Things to remember
Text recognition on images or scanned pages
Can make notes many different ways on different devices
On mobile devices use voice to text to dictate your notes or even documents
Other APPs
Skitch - (PC, MAC, iOS, Andriod) A drawing app that can be used on all devices to annotate images and then allows you to save to evernote.
iPad Apps
Link to a list of iOS apps that work with Evernote
Notable Apps - Noteshelf, Penultimate, Evernote Peek -create Flash Cards out of a Evernote Notebook
Use Evernote to Keep Minutes at Meetings, Liveminutes
Other Resources
Evernote Resources
How to use Evernote in the Classroom
I've been using Evernote All Wrong - An interesting take on how to use Evernote
Search Youtube for many many different tutorials about Evernote
My Other Organization Tools
Wunderlist
Google Keep
Dropbox
Pocket
Capture anything - Text, images, voice and works on all devices (PC/Mac/iOs/Andriod/Web)
Evernote has a great search tool - Use tags to help organize your notes, you can highlight notes (great for sharing)
Example of types of notes that can be made in Evernote (a shared Evernote notebook)
Tips and Hints
You can make one account for your personal life and one for your school or combine them into one.
Save everything, voice, pictures, docs, text, list - whatever you can imagine
Share individual notes or notebooks with family, friends, professional connections
Make folders
Share individual notes or folders (web interface)
New Features - Set Reminders
Webclipper - You can install the Webclipper and clip parts of all of a webpage to Evernote
*** Screen Capture - When you install Evernote you also install a screen capture program that is in the system tray on Windows and on the Toolbar on MacOS. and then using Skitch program you can annotate the capture.
Things to remember
Text recognition on images or scanned pages
Can make notes many different ways on different devices
On mobile devices use voice to text to dictate your notes or even documents
Other APPs
Skitch - (PC, MAC, iOS, Andriod) A drawing app that can be used on all devices to annotate images and then allows you to save to evernote.
iPad Apps
Link to a list of iOS apps that work with Evernote
Notable Apps - Noteshelf, Penultimate, Evernote Peek -create Flash Cards out of a Evernote Notebook
Use Evernote to Keep Minutes at Meetings, Liveminutes
Other Resources
Evernote Resources
How to use Evernote in the Classroom
I've been using Evernote All Wrong - An interesting take on how to use Evernote
Search Youtube for many many different tutorials about Evernote
My Other Organization Tools
Wunderlist
Google Keep
Dropbox
