A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of having John McGeaghie, VP Sales from Evernote come to our Technology & Innovation class to have a chat with us.
Following that session we were asked to write our reactions about Evernote.
Being the savvy IT person that I am - obviously I had never heard of this Evernote thing before.
So I thought I'd install the app in my computer & phone, give it some weeks and then write this post about my impressions.
Well, for all of you who also don't know what Evernote is, here is a quick nice little intro.
http://evernote.com
Sounds pretty cool doesn't it?
That's what I thought initially, but truth be said I couldn't bring myself to use it.
And it's not because the app is not user friendly nor its features are good. But for the purpose of sharing my documents between my different devices my Dropbox does that perfectly well for me.
Also my iCloud is great in keeping my calendars, emails, contacts & so forth all organised and shared. And for my to do's lists the reminders program which is also in the cloud works out just fine.
So to me putting and organising my things into Evernote just seems like additional work.
I guess the notebook is a great way to keep your things organised, but particularly for me, that am not fully digital yet, this is double work. Because it would mean transferring things from one place into Evernote and honestly the likelihood of me remembering to go to Evernote to search for these things in the future is close to nil.
I guess though this is a characteristic of my "generation", which is in transit between the paper & digital world. I guess I'm still attached to the coloured post its, and my moleskin notebook. I suspect people that have gone more digital than me might find this amazing.
There is one feature that I really liked though which is the web clipper.
Every time I found a link that I liked and I wanted to remember it or keep it somewhere the only way I knew of keeping it was adding it to my bookmarks. But most of the time I didn't want to bookmark the page but that particular content in it, so for this I found Evernote Clipper to be a great solution.
Another feature, which I understood is a fairly new app they just launched, is the Evernote Hello.
This to me was innovative and awesome! I can think of how much time and effort I could have saved if I had this before!!!!
I remember going to meetings and then after each meeting I had to take 5 minutes or so, so write down behind people's business cards, where and when I met them, what we talked about maybe, so that I would remember that person in the future. This app does that for you in a brilliant way.
I suspect this app might become one of my best friends in the near future! :)
The only issue for me - and that is a problem I have not only with Evernote but other digital solutions - is to remember to use them!!! I still resort to the pen & paper before anything else.
And truth be said this Technology & Innovation class has been great for me in the sense that it has opened my mind to many trends and things I needed to catch up with and was completely clueless about. But still sometimes it's difficult to step away from what you are used to.
I'm trying... But going 150% digital for people like me, it's definitely a process that doesn't happen overnight.
Following that session we were asked to write our reactions about Evernote.
Being the savvy IT person that I am - obviously I had never heard of this Evernote thing before.
So I thought I'd install the app in my computer & phone, give it some weeks and then write this post about my impressions.
Well, for all of you who also don't know what Evernote is, here is a quick nice little intro.
Sounds pretty cool doesn't it?
That's what I thought initially, but truth be said I couldn't bring myself to use it.
And it's not because the app is not user friendly nor its features are good. But for the purpose of sharing my documents between my different devices my Dropbox does that perfectly well for me.
Also my iCloud is great in keeping my calendars, emails, contacts & so forth all organised and shared. And for my to do's lists the reminders program which is also in the cloud works out just fine.
So to me putting and organising my things into Evernote just seems like additional work.
I guess the notebook is a great way to keep your things organised, but particularly for me, that am not fully digital yet, this is double work. Because it would mean transferring things from one place into Evernote and honestly the likelihood of me remembering to go to Evernote to search for these things in the future is close to nil.
I guess though this is a characteristic of my "generation", which is in transit between the paper & digital world. I guess I'm still attached to the coloured post its, and my moleskin notebook. I suspect people that have gone more digital than me might find this amazing.
There is one feature that I really liked though which is the web clipper.
Every time I found a link that I liked and I wanted to remember it or keep it somewhere the only way I knew of keeping it was adding it to my bookmarks. But most of the time I didn't want to bookmark the page but that particular content in it, so for this I found Evernote Clipper to be a great solution.
Another feature, which I understood is a fairly new app they just launched, is the Evernote Hello.
This to me was innovative and awesome! I can think of how much time and effort I could have saved if I had this before!!!!
I remember going to meetings and then after each meeting I had to take 5 minutes or so, so write down behind people's business cards, where and when I met them, what we talked about maybe, so that I would remember that person in the future. This app does that for you in a brilliant way.
I suspect this app might become one of my best friends in the near future! :)
The only issue for me - and that is a problem I have not only with Evernote but other digital solutions - is to remember to use them!!! I still resort to the pen & paper before anything else.
And truth be said this Technology & Innovation class has been great for me in the sense that it has opened my mind to many trends and things I needed to catch up with and was completely clueless about. But still sometimes it's difficult to step away from what you are used to.
I'm trying... But going 150% digital for people like me, it's definitely a process that doesn't happen overnight.
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