As a consultant moving from project to project, it’s sometimes hard to keep track of all tools, document templates and experience gained over the years. PCs are renewed, email addresses change, USB-drives gets corrupted and notebooks disappears… Thus, when you’re stuck on a problem you know you’ve solved before, it can be very frustrating when trying to recollect the required tools/documents you once wrote down to solve it.
Behold; Evernote.
Evernote is not a new app. It’s been on the market for quite some time, and I’m finding it ever more usefull. I’m using it to keep a home inventory (with images of receipts attached to photos of items in my home), I’m storing receipes and various stuff, and most important (for this blog’s angle): I’ve created a category labeled “Test”, in which I store documents, templates, link to tools (or a copy of them), etc etc etc.
By using Evernote like this, I can access what I need from any computer around the world. Evernote has a desktop version, but is fully web-functional from a computer or i.e. an iPhone app.
I can store anything I want there, including notes from my Project notebook (hand written); just take a snapshot of it with your cellphone, add a tag (and description and more if you want), and it’s in Evernote in seconds. You can also store entire webpages, or just the selected text, using a bookmarklet in your browser. You can also take snapshots of your iPhone screen:
You can also make notes public, which means you can share your valuable files with others who might need them.
This has been usefull to my several times, and the more I use, the more I understand the advantages of it. Now I’m completing my collection of manuals for my hi-fi, I’m creating a base of code snippets, and I’m keeping all details for the upcoming summer holiday there as well (tickets, car rental details, receipts from inflight orders etc).
