Evernote Comes In Handy Post CES

Posted on 11 January 2010 by


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CES 2010 is over. Everyone else has taken off already and I’ve got one more night here in Las Vegas before flying out to meet Elana to celebrate a family friend’s wedding. I spent this morning getting a bit organized, trying to figure out how many get everything on the plane, and doing some wrap up with regard to all of many people I had the privilege of meeting over the past week.

I have a tremendous number of business cards and, knowing myself as I do, I’ll lose most of them before I finally get home in week if I don’t do something first. That’s where Evernote comes in. I have written about Evernote numerous times in the past and as the service continues to improve I find it ever more useful for organizing my life. (In fact I had the privilege of meeting with the company’s CEO yesterday and will be writing that up sometime the next few days.) This time around Evernote is helping my gather, save and organize all the bits of information I have gathered here in Las Vegas.

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The first step in using the service to get organized before I try to pack for the next light of my adventure with all of the business cards I collected over the past five days and snap pictures of them using my iPhone. After snapping the picture I simply allowed my iPhone to sync with Evernote’s servers. Once I knew that all of the cards I collected were safely stored in “The Cloud” and synced to my MacBook Pro I could now dispose of them. I did the same thing with the flyers and hardcopy Press material I received while wandering the show floor.
Seriously, when I gathered it all up to dispose of it I was shocked at how much material there was. The best thing about this approach, however, is not that it lets me dispose of all the hard materials but that, once material is input to Evernote, it is scanned and then easily found through a few keywords.  Rather than flipping through 200 plus cards to find the one contact I want to email I can now open Evernote and type anything from the company name to the contact’s first or last name. Within seconds I’ll have the information I need right at my fingertips.

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There is an additional way I could use the service if I like. When I met with Evernote CEO he talked a good bit about the Evernote API. One useful iPhone application I recently discovered called “Awesome Note”. It is one of the 20 or so applications that currently use Evernote’s API for complete integration between the application and the Evernote service. There are many more in the pipelines already.

Awesome Note is an attractive Notes application in its own right. It has a beautiful interface, a great deal of configurability and numerous opportunities for organizing and accessing your notes. The most compelling part of it, however, is the integration with my favorite service. It allows for automatic synchronization in either direction. and lets me peel off small pieces of my Evernote data for easier access and a greater degree of formatting. I only began using it the app this morning but I’m impressed with how well it works.

More tips for using Evernote, and my interview with Evernote CEO Phil Libin, soon.

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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    I really like the idea of Evernote but I’ve noticed a ton of bugs with their Windows and web clients – sometimes I’ll save a file and when I go back to look at it, it will appear different (bolds/bullets might be messed up for example).

    If when they fix that I will be extremely happy – it’s very convenient to have a single place to put notes that you can access anywhere, with clients built to that device.

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