Well, I’m attempting to return to the land of the living. I have been in bed most of the week with a sore throat and fever, even though the sore throat lasted less than a day, I have felt wasted all week. Before I hit the wall at my office on Tuesday morning, I was starting to try to organize things using Evernote. If you haven’t tried Evernote yet, I would highly recommend it. I really can’t describe it better than the website itself:
EverNote 1.0 makes it easy to store and quickly access all your notes — handwritten memos, web page excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more — on an endless, digital roll or paper.
It’s a great way to capture excerpts from webpages and anything else you may be trying to organize. I know for me, quite often, I have several ideas and concepts rolling around in my head and Evernote gives me a way to begin to organize some of these thoughts. It also helps me to keep my thoughts straight between 2 blogs and another website I’m in the process of developing, as well as the various issues I am currently addressing at church.. This tool is simple to use, and it is a practical way to organize your notes and thoughts and the best part about it is that it’s free. It is labeled as beta, so I guess at some point they might begin charging for it but for now, it’s free. There are other tools like this out there, my wife likes KeyNote, and I have used that as well, but I like Evernote better. Keynote gives you a tree structure to organize thoughts and ideas. I know some have had good things to say about Microsoft’s OneNote and I downloaded it but when I saw the 80mb download file, I just wondered how much more disk space will it occupy and what in the world was in there that was so big.(certainly not the first time MS software is bloated) I also figured out that I downloaded a trial version i.e. there is a cost involved, and that totally demotivated me. Since I’m not a huge MS fan anyway, I didn’t even install it. I don’t mind paying for a tool that is valuable to me, but if I can find something similar for free, I’m all over that. So, go check out Evernote, the download is around 1mb.