Tracy's Friday Favorites: Evernote

I'm not good with paper. On my office shelves I have a range of notebooks filled with varying degrees of random notes, crossing many different projects, events, etc. In reality, I take notes and never go back to them not least because I can never remember which of my multitude of notebooks I have written the darn things down in. Don't get me wrong, this is nothing against paper. I love paper. I love books. I love buying beautiful notebooks. Writing with pen and paper is something I do so rarely nowadays that having a beautiful notebook and writing in it has an almost romantic feel for me. But it's just not practical for me.

Enter Evernote. I love this product. Basically Evernote is a tool for note taking. It's multi-platform (I have a single account that is accessed from iPad, mac and iPhone, and seamlessly synchronises between the three) and just so incrediby useful. Within it you create individual notebooks, and then create individual notes within each notebook. This enables you to make sense of everything. I have notebooks for different clients, one for conference notes, another for blog ideas (blog ideas come at anytime, so keeping an archive of them is really starting to help boost the productivity of my blog, and is the place in which I start drafting blog posts now, with several on the go at any one time that I add to as and when I can). Within the notes you can add files, images, links, whatever you need really.

Furthermore you can also email notes to Evernote, and you can tweet to it too, making it easy to store those tweets that you want return to later.

So so very useful for me! I'm even drafting this blog post within it on the iPad. Then when I'm ready to post it, I'll just pick up the same entry on the mac and post it to the blog. Seamless, very easy to use, and an invaluable tool for me.