Evernote
Evernote
What is it? Place to capture things in “the cloud” and have them easily accessible where ever you are
What sort of things? Pretty well anything digital - text, emails, documents, photos, voice recordings
Why use it? It is like a digital filing system but much easier to find things as uses tags and also OCR ie optical character recognition (finds text in documents & photos & therefore is searchable). You can use it in lots of different ways. You can have both private & shared areas of the system.
I am just exploring how this sort of technology will change the way we live. For myself for example:
- I have various to do lists – both things that need doing today, this week, or just ideas for sometime/anytime. These are shared with DH so he knows what’s on the list too
- Things to buy, ideas for DD next birthday/xmas
- Reference – absolutely anything – could be your insurance details, book lists, recipes
- Holiday info – maps, ticket info, reservations, travellers cheque numbers, credit card emergency info....
- Take a photo of useful poster/van/document while you are out – Evernote automatically OCRs it so searchable by keyword. Eg see a van for a plumber, take a photo, now comes up when you search for “plumber”!
- Electronic filing all your documents (and then dumping the paper) with searching possible– possible but struggling to get motivated on the backlog of scanning. Much easier when the document is already digital then you can just upload it or email it.
Why evernote? It’s free! It’s so easy to get things in & then equally importantly get them out again when you need them.
What do I need? Access to web via pc, phone etc. You can set up a free account to use (premium account is for those of us who are hooked & need more space!). Then you can access from multiple places and it all stays in sync.
How do I get started? Look up Evernote.com and see all the different ways that people use it. Sign up for free
Evernote & Atkins – which was the original point of this post
Since I started I have been using as follows:
- Links to interesting web sites eg sugar free Sheila
- Lists of allowed foods (always with you when shopping & in restaurants!)
- Started putting my favourite recipes in
- Captured starting weights & measurements plus before photos (well now photos but you know what I mean!!!)
If anyone is interested to find out more - let me know