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Tip: Use Evernote to remember the people you meet

Tips and Stories | By Ron Toledo
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When you are at a conference, trade show or networking event, snap a picture of the people you meet along with their name tags (or have them hold up their business cards). Evernote will automatically make the text in the images searchable. Now, you’ll be able to search for the name and see the face that goes with it.

You can create a separate notebook for these contacts, or tag them with “contact” and use a Saved Search to find them later.

Find even more Evernote uses and tips at: Ron’s Evernote Tips

  • Jody

    Could someone please enlighten me as to the first step in this workflow? Do you just use your smartphone to take a picture, then open
    Evernote… then? Or do you open Evernote first and somehow this is done with Evernote open first? Or? What are the exact steps?

  • Dan

    Though nifty to get this stuff into Evernote, I want the content of the business card to go into my outlook, or at least into a contact record on my phone, in addition to Evernote. Is there an easy way to take a picture of a business card and then create a contact with that person’s data in it? Call me lazy, but when I want to call someone I don’t want to have to look at a picture of the card and type in the digits. Likewise when I go to e-mail them.

    • mcheng

      Hi Dan,

      Stay tuned … more features are coming down the pipe for Evernote Hello. This is just the beginning.

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