EvernoteNew Tools for Organizing Your

Work Life

By Julie Wright

Learning Objectives

Understand how Evernote can be used in the workplace

Identify 3 strategies for using Evernote in the workplace

What is Evernote?

Product Evernote

Category Productivity

Platform Multi-platform: Computer, smart phone, tablet

Overview Provides quick, easy way to create, save, organize, and share ideas and information

Learning Curve Easy, tutorials available

Rating To be determined by you

Cost Free*

Examples

Clips of webpages

Photos of whiteboards and blackboards

Business card snapshots

Tweets

Photos of handwritten notes

Tasks and to-dos

Emails

Audio

Files

Practical Applications

Information management

LibGuides: clip websites, multimedia, rss feeds

Workflow with coworkers and student workers

Information Management

LibGuides: RSS feed

Evernote public RSS feed

Workflow with Coworkers/Student Workers

Share

Notes

To-Do lists

Evernote and Email

Email Evernote

Evernote and Twitter

Instructions Results

How to Clip

Install free web clipper

http://evernote.com/webclipper/

Clip away!

Organization in Evernote

Notes

Notebooks Stacks

Tags

PROS

Search printed and handwritten text

Easy to compile multiple forms of information

Sync between multiple devices

CONS

Cannot embed/view videos in Evernote

Cannot colorcode

Heavy research project, consider RefWorks, others

60 megabytes/month uploads

Pay for offline notebooks

Pay for others to edit/add to notebooks

Recap

Strategies where you can use Evernote at work

Identify the tools to start your Evernote account

Information management

LibGuides RSS feeds

Update in-real-time

Workflow management To-do lists/check list

Create notebooks for different student groups

Sign up

Notebooks

Note

Tag

Web clipper add-on

Further Reading

http://www.evernote.com

Step-by-step instructions: Evernote LibGuide

Note: All images from http://www.evernote.com and author-generated

Let Evernote be your external

brain.

Julie Wright, Learning and Outreach InternLearning and Outreach TeamSterling C. Evans Librarywrigh2jk@gmail.com

Further Questions? Just ask.