Comments on: Food Month Tasting Event with Foodzie

By: Ray Prock

Ray Prock — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:46:28 +0000

My favorite use is the best soundbite of the upcoming vid.”It is my backup brain”

By: Cheyenne

Cheyenne — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:17:55 +0000

I use Evernote for clipping and sharing recipes, instructions, interesting articles and schoolwork. If i want to remember it later it goes to Evernote.

By: helenlam

helenlam — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:25:00 +0000

I keep all my random notes to self on Evernote, which makes it useful regardless of whichever computer I might be logging in from!

By: VirgoBlue

VirgoBlue — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:37:10 +0000

Very practical but essential…I’m a huge listmaker and I need to have a running list of what to buy the next time I hit grocery or drugstore (because I always forget what I need).

By: Don

Don — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:45:25 +0000

Tracking random things like receipts and business cards that never had a good place to go. Prosaic stuff. However, I’m trying to convince a friend of mine who owns an vintage glassware store that she could create an online inventory that would be easily searchable. Currently I’m trying to get the eye-fi system set up for this. She said if I could get it down to 5 minutes per entry we should try it.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:59:39 +0000

I keep copies of user manuals on Evernote, which makes them searchable. I also keep articles and notes for subjects I’m researching.

By: Guillermo Torres

Guillermo Torres — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:17:27 +0000

Evernote has become essential for my meetings. I take notes with it during the meeting, and after the meeting I take pictures of the whiteboard using the iphone app.

I also use it for shopping, while I am out and about, I take pictures of the tags to compare prices between stores and as reminders to buy the item when I can afford it.

By: Geraldine Gray

Geraldine Gray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:41:17 +0000

Evernote is the one place I use for collecting information when I am hosting a client requirements & specification meeting for a Salesforce.com implementation.
Of course I have a monster spreadsheet/workbook for recording fields, triggers, automation rules etc, a handy but heavy lined notepad, my trusty gel ink pens, my memory the size of an elephant, and a few colleagues but you need somewhere to brain dump information so that it doesn’t get lost. And so that you can email it to the client when they forget what they asked for. Where else can I store:
“How Can We Help You?
Admin Request
Device Support
Feature Request
General User Question” badly spelled random notes?
Each client has their own notebook and then I sync this to my BlackBerry and either allow team members to log in as me so that they can see my notes or I email them out.
Evernote is the app I use when I want to remember vital information that I know that I will probably forget.

By: Roderic Campbell

Roderic Campbell — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:25:24 +0000

All of my notes in one place…..

not a chance. I’d rather have all of my notes in all of the places I am. The reason evernote works so well is because everything is backed up and accessible on all devices that I use.

So my favorite way to use evernote besides as a complete replacement for my brain? I like to take pictures of the greeting cards that people send me. I’ve got tons of holiday cards and birthday cards that mean so much to me because they come from people who are important to me. Storing the cards on evernote saves me the space and clutter but affords me the memories.

Thanks evernote.

By: Peter Roessler

Peter Roessler — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:17:26 +0000

Evernote keeps me organized as I gather data: on line, in documents, in photos. As a qualitative researcher, it’s vital to have a tool that is format agnostic and easy to access across devices.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:59:57 +0000

I use Evernote to keep track of class information and notes. Easy to make wish lists for Christmas too. Evernote keeps all my cyclocross training and racing information in one place. I upload my registration information and hotel into Evernote and then use my Blackberry if I have any issues on race day.

By: easyidea

easyidea — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:18:43 +0000

Hai I also record little ditties I play on my guitar or drum and send the wav file to my (ahem!) fans. Some say torture but whatevah, don’t hate, appreciate create diversity! What else? My travel logs and itineraries goes in there, as does my own list of favorite restaurants, bars, salons, health professionals … my own little Yelp world

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:30:12 +0000

Tracking job descriptions of all the positions I’m applying for!

By: Rachael Guerra

Rachael Guerra — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:37:06 +0000

I enter all of my purchases into budget software. So I save all my reciepts. Pretty soon my wallet is crowded with reciepts. If I take them out of my wallet to store them some place else, it takes me forever to remember where I put them. Now I just take a picture using Evernote. No more bulky wallet. No more trying to keep track of all that paper.

By: RandyF

RandyF — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:55:30 +0000

I like using evernote to read material later on when I don’t have time to review at the time I first discover it.

By: Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Maybe revealing my little Evernote usage will get me seriously uninvited to this shindig. But I’ll share anyway in the hope that others, um, “take note.” It’s been a busy past several months. I just moved to SF to go to graduate school, and before arriving here I was diagnosed with both ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome. Previously I had worked full time (overtime, really) with kids on the Autism spectrum; I worked 20+ hours a week with one kid in particular who was ADHD and high-functioning. His life read all too much like my own.

To say Evernote has been life-changing since sounds absurd and over the top–it’s not. Combine ADHD with AS and I honestly struggle to remember what feeling I’m feeling at any moment, or how to communicate needs. Evernote on iPhone is like my little therapeutic tool. I’ve taken my experience as a therapist for kids on the spectrum and made Evernote my platform for self-therapy. Now, bear in mind that I was an Evernote fanatic before and use it a billion different ways: paper notes, syllabus ideas, personal health records, wishlists, owner manuals, how-to’s. But I never once thought it really would be my “second brain” until now. I don’t know what I would do without it. My girlfriend is especially thankful to the Evernote team for enabling me to translate “upset” into “overwhelmed” and to therefore “take a deep breath” (as my Evernote note reads).

Anyway, self-identifying as the Asperger’s guy is probably not what Dale Carnegie was thinking when he advised on how to win friends. I may not be the life of the Foodzie party from the Evernote crowd, but I am one damn good example of a second brain put to good use.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:14:56 +0000

Evernote is a great tool for keeping track of business cards you are given by other professionals. It is easy to lose the actual business card, but if you take a picture of the card with Evernote – it is saved forever. The same is true for remembering bottles of wine you try in restaurants, beers you try at a bar, or other treats.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:30:53 +0000

I use Evernote as my to-do list and primary reference source, accessible from anywhere I can get to the web. When reading email or web pages, any time I see information I believe I will need in the future, I clip it. Evernote’s great search capability means I don’t need to spend a lot of time trying to “file” the information–I just type in a couple of keywords and find the stored information immediately. It’s much faster to work with information I’ve already reviewed than to do a web search and go through the results.

By: George Hamma

George Hamma — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:04:54 +0000

My Evernote collection is characterized by the diversity of the contents. Whether it’s photos I want to keep around, documents I hope to be able to find again, web sites that I want to remember to revisit (from whatever system I’m using at the time), shopping finds, or valuable support sites, they all go into Evernote.

By: Kevin Neely

Kevin Neely — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:37:06 +0000

My favourite aspect of my Evernote repository is my public recipe and wine-tasting notebooks. I create or clip recipes from everywhere and put them in this notebook so not only I can refer to them, but so I can point friends that are eating my tasty treats to the recipe. Wine tasting notes are mostly pics with a few notes uploaded from my Nokia smartphone, directly into Evernote and tagged ‘wine’ through the PixelPipe service.

In private todo lists, I take the recipes and make shopping lists, as well as look for wine-pairing ideas from wine I have had before. This makes Evernote the perfect foodie companion!

By: Vivek Patel

Vivek Patel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:19:46 +0000

Capture & search through brainstorming sessions from a white board.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:34:57 +0000

I use Evernote to keep track of my LIFE! Pics I want to remember, lists of things I want to buy… Most recently I was apartment hunting — I used Evernote to take pics of ads, listings, and apartment interiors! It makes it really easy for me to review what I can consider and what isn’t a good option.

By: Andria Tay

Andria Tay — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:20:27 +0000

I find Evernote indispensable, though my usage is probably pretty mundane! I use it primarily to save things from the web that I’m doing research on, though I also use it on my T-Mobile Dash to save notes & ideas (t-shirt slogans, character ideas, wine & food notes, etc.) My favorite function lately has been the screencap on the webclipper – I can grab pretty much everything, esp. photos!

By: Leanne Waldal

Leanne Waldal — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:10:03 +0000

Jot down cocktail ingredients while at bar or resTaurant copy/paste cocktail recipes, take photos of bottles while at bar or restaurant to easily remember them later when at wine/liquor store –> and then, surprise! Date time stamped searchable database of drinking and mixing WITH ingredients and recipes!

By: Roem

Roem — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:02:49 +0000

I use Evernote to capture melody and song ideas.

The good stuff happens at the least convenient times for me; walking down the street, in an elevator, the shower… so I sing it into the voice note feature and zip! It’s sync’d to my computer for me to work on at the studio later.

Someone once said, writing a song was like catching fireflies in a jar… I like to think of Evernote as casting a bigger net for my creative fire.