Evernote
Have you ever installed an app you thought would be useful and then had trouble figuring out what to do with it? Evernote is such an app for me.
I found it on the Mac App Store and decided to give it a try. I installed it on the Mini, the iPad, and the Air.
It sits there. Waiting. I captured screen shots of potential cell phones to show hubby. He’s not really interested. I’m not sure what else to do with it. I sense there’s something I could be doing with it, but what?
It strikes me as DropBox for the web. I like the concept. I guess it will just hang around and wait for me to figure something out.
I haven’t been using it a long time, but I like it because it works on all my gadgets and syncs easily.
I use it (or am trying to use it) in place of all the many sticky notes and paper scraps and napkins I jot things on. I have a notebook for Samhain notes and Carina notes and a notebook for personal and such. In the Carina notebook I have a note where I jot down things like “don’t forget to check em dashes” (because Docs to Go doesn’t make the curly) or potential plot holes. Character notes. One of the files has notes that keep popping into my head for a project that’s 3 books out.
In the personal one I have a list of things I need at the store. A note listing calorie counts for the restaurants we frequent. One has the measurement of the empty wall space I’m trying to find a bookspace for.
It would all be clutter as word docs in Dropbox, I think. The notes are easily organized in notebooks and I can jot down a plot point that crossed my mind while on my iPad and then later, at Walmart, see what else I needed at the store on my Droid X.
I use it this way: Dropbox is my neat shelf of work product and big documents. Evernote is all the loose crap littering my desk and purse.
That makes sense. I would consolidate some of the things I keep specifically on the iPad and make them available (if needed) on other platforms.
I set up some notebooks in Evernote — so far, they’re all empty, but I have a place to put stuff.
*laughs* It’s a start!
Just created a recipe notebook and saved a bunch of recipes I have links saved to in there. Now I should be able to use them on the iPad when I cook anywhere — with or without WiFi (but I usually have WiFi).
I haven’t figured out how to make copy and save functionally in the iPad yet, but it works like a charm on the Mini.