I can add tags at that point too, if I wish. If I’m browsing the web and hit an article I want to save for later, there’s a little clipper plug-in for my browser which, if I pick it, automatically sends the page through to Evernote. How do I get stuff into Evernote? Four main ways. You can chuck notes together in notebooks if you have a tidy mind, but it’s the tags that really give Evernote its power. As will any other note, including those that have the word in the text as well as a tag, if you choose.
Tag it ‘Stott’, ‘Race’, ‘MLK’ and the Ephesians reference – or whatever you choose – and whenever you search for that tag, up it pops. And I was constantly baffled by a decent cross-referencing system that didn’t take half my week to organise, and half my week to navigate.Įvernote uses tags – little shortcuts you define, which mean that quote, for instance, can be found any which way. Where are you going to file that? For years I kept up a system of paper files and index cards for things like that. Let’s say you’re reading a book by John Stott, and he has a great quote on a verse in Ephesians, to do with racial tensions, and engaging with Martin Luther King. Wait, you say, I have all that in my trusty Filofax/Moleskine/scrap of paper. A section for international travel, a section for stuff I need if Im speaking (ever forgotten your notes?), a section for tech and charging cables. And I don’t have to create it every time. I still don’t know how I did that! But as a result, I now have a packing list in Evernote – a checklist – which I use every time I travel, which contains everything I need if it’s ticked off on the list, it’s gone in the bag. Shirts, washbag, and a few other things were still sitting on my bed at home. So, for instance, I once turned up in a hotel for a conference, only to open my bag and discover that I’d only half packed. What can you store there? Absolutely anything lists, documents, photos, pdfs, articles, notes, reminders, agendas – anything you want to keep and retrieve. So what is it?It’s a system of unlimited storage and retrieval (think filing system, only don’t – it’s way better), easily accessible on the cloud, available on all your devices.
If not, let me introduce it – it’s free, by the way, although there is a paid Premium version which is quite cheap and offers some brilliant bells and whistles. If you already know about it, skim down to how I use it.
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