How do you use Evernote?

We asked our Twitter followers to tell us how they use Evernote. Here are some of the responses. Many thanks to everyone that tweeted!

Work

• jvmoore1: Evernote has been great for IT work. I research something at my house or in the office and am able to access it on the web.
• blloyd: Snapping photos of whiteboards at meetings with my phone.
• PhoneTrips: My friend and I run a weekly podcast at whatsnewisold.blogspot.com. I put items in Evernote all week tagged “podcast.”
• ajfortin: Recently put screenshots of a health care conference live-tweets in public notebook so people can search for speaker comments.
• juliegomoll: Using it for planning new business - notes on vendors, products, ideas, etc. and for fodder for future blog posts.
• mmaslowski: I use it for collecting scraps ideas and outline specification of new apps I’ve been working on.
• RuudHein: Clipping, maintaining database of information retrieval knowledge for www.searchenginepeople.com.
• okwichu: Keeping track of work tasks, notes, and rough time tracking.
• WickedGood : I’m using it to create and manage show notes for my podcast: http://www.extra-points.com/.
• normc: Evernote has cleaned my office, my desk is no longer full of scraps of paper.
• bhugh36: I use it mainly for work stuff because I can easily sync between my Mac at home & my PC at work.

Personal

• aimeeisdrawing: I’ve been using it for collecting things I need to return to on the web, better than bookmarks. My boyfriend uses it for school.
• BobQ: For clipping recipes, doing research for projects, keeping multiple project-related lists, and for snapping images on my cellphone.
• kevinfrey: Using Evernote gloriously to be a smarter wine consumer. I can’t remember yesterday, let alone the name of the last wine bottle I drank.
• gcmandrake: I use Evernote for keeping track of photography ideas and notes. (I also use it for work & home.)
• shaneblyth: I use it for gathering info at home on tech topics, storing business cards, etc.
• xstealx: I use it as a note-to-self and reminders mostly but I intend to use it for work.
• zemote: I am using Evernote for work & personal. It has become my bucket for clipping everything!!!
• mjohnson16: I’m using Evernote for work notes, church projects, research, reminders, and general mayhem moments.

School

• LtFielding: I’m using it for school.
• lrei: I’m using Evernote for college notes, personal projects, planning trips, notes for writing my blog and general personal notes.
• iamhannah: School and work. I use it for my radio show to be organized.
• richgould: Using Evernote to help with my son’s 3rd grade project on chickens. Finding everything we can: pics, info, facts, etc. It’s great!
• whoisvince: I’ve been primarily using Evernote to store any and all info about scholarships.

Travel

• molgar: I am using Evernote to collect info for my next trip: New Zealand!!
• barron: I am using Evernote to plan our summer vacation. It keeps all my notes in one convenient place.

Organization and productivity

• ChrisWarren: I use it as my mobile @rnd folder for GTD. Marvelous!! I now have ink notes too.
• levibethune: I track my paystubs, tax forms and bills in Evernote, as well a separate notebook of beer and wine bottle labels.
• androvski: I use it for all my geeky stuff, reminders, ideas, to-do lists, bookmarks, school stuff, etc. All my life is within Evernote.
• lbcapt: Really loving the app - using it on Mac, PC, and web to keep track of reminders, future blog posts, etc… Great job!!
• Kforbriger: EVERYTHING… keeping my online world organized on Evernote now.

Research

• SherylSisk: I’m using it to collect, research, and process “blog fodder” for my blogs.
• joeyinteractive: We are the developers of Desktoptopia (http://www.desktoptopia.com), we use Evernote to capture new ideas and artists we discover.
• shaneblyth: I use it for gathering info at home on tech topics, storing business cards, etc.
• leanda: I use Evernote for keeping scrap books of design ideas and inspiration - type, colour, pattern, shape etc.
• sharpstick: Keeping political news articles to refer to later on in the year.

Shopping

• pattyman: I keep track of things I want to follow up on Craigslist, and also comics I see in the shop that I want to pick up next time.
• duncanmike: My wife takes cell phone pics of fashions in mags/stores > Evernote to create a “looks to recreate” reference.

Posted by Andrew Sinkov at 2:21 pm in Tips and uses
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