Tip: Use Evernote to remember the people you meet

Tips and Stories | 28 Apr 201028 Apr 10 | 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

http://www.drh-group.com Doug

Will probably make for a pretty awkward social moment but it does show the power of Evernote
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  I definitely felt a little awkward doing this in the beginning. Now, taking snapshots of business cards and name tags has become completely second nature. People may find it weird, but that’s just an opportunity to tell them about Evernote.
http://www.thisclosetofame.com Klim

Would be interested to hear from people that do this. I have often *thought* about doing it, but always cringed at the awkwardness. People should just ALWAYS wear name tags and make it easier for everybody.
http://vitamincm.com Christopher Masiello

Ron,
This is one of my favorite Evernote tricks. If I go to a conference, training class, meeting, or event I use this trick. I especially like to take the card and the face, so that I remember who everyone was.
Good tip,
Chris
http://davemmett.com Dave

I’ve been doing something similar to this for the past year. I snap a photo of all the business cards I get using Evernote (not right when I get them, normally a day or two later) and then recycle the cards. It’s actually kinda interesting to see how well different people’s designs for biz cards hold up to imaging. Tiny type doesn’t hold up very well.

Doesn’t show me what the person looks like, but it does force me to remember each person I get a card from at least for a sec while I’m taking the photo of their card.
- vish ramdas
  
  Hi Dave
  
  Me too. Have been doing this for a while. One approach i use is collect business cards, collectively scan in batches of 12 and use evernote- screen capture and ctrl-s to save as individual png files on a specific folder with long names that have all details i can remember.
  bulk upload the pngs into evernote, evernote takes the file name as the note title and that helps
  also the image text OCR helps get further details during retrieve..
  - http://spkfrnch.wordpress.com Ruth
    
    Sounds like a great technique. Could you explain that using more words, so non-techie like me can figure out exactly how to proceed? I see how to scan a batch of cards into one file. Do I then open the image file (with the multiple images) and send to Evernote? What does Ctrl-S do? Thanks!
http://www.yakuyaku.com Anthony

At first I thought “Why on Earth would you forget someone that easily anyway?” but it’s true that some people get to meet lots of guys during their works… definitely a useful trick
sam

I’m a teacher. This would be great for us. Have the students fill out some basic info, like name, parent’s name, and phone number. Now my students aren’t clogging up my phone contacts and I can search for the student’s name and have their parent’s name right beside it!
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Great idea!
- http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com tony1512
  
  This feature is the best because you can easily reached the names, and their parents! It’s so very informative!
http://operationscar.org OPeration SCAR

A simple idea but would be very effective if you can persuade people you just met to pose for a photo! With the iPhone App this is even easier.

Certainly addresses the putting a face to a name issue!
http://www.kimtarr.com Kim

This is such a great idea! I ALWAYS forget names with faces. Although I have to say, it would be a little weird at first, but I guess just like everything else, it would soon become second nature!
- http://www.wordamania.com Sudhanshu
  
  Keep doing it Kim if you like it. Alternatively, visit my web http://www.wordamania.com too for a fresh vision on memorizing. : )
http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com

This is amazing, having evernote you can easily access and get information of a person thru evernote. It’s very interesting just a simple shot of a person with an I.D. it automatically registered.
http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com anthony

So amazing… It would be a big help for those people that had a trouble remembering the face and information. Just a simple shot…

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