We all use scrap paper. We take notes when we’re on the phone, while we’re sitting in a lecture and for me often times while I am working on something and I just have some thoughts I want to scribble out so I can remember them later. Other times I want to run some calculations and I just open up an MS Excel sheet and lay them all out. I have found in some cases that after closing that “scrap” file in Excel without saving the changes I wished I hadn’t! I wanted to get those #’s back because I had another thought and wanted to play around some more. After experiencing this enough times with both forms of scrap (written and calculations) I got smart, created a note in Evernote called “Scrap” and dropped my excel file in there. Now any time I need to “jot” something down I access that note so it’s all saved and even easily referenced from anywhere because it’s in evernote so I can get to the info from my phone.
Hey the bottom line is it doesn’t cost me anything extra to do this and it can only help! Maybe it can help you too!
Here are some other helpful posts on how I use Evernote to get and stay organized:
New concept – If you have an android phone or other access to Google Docs, they have that new thing were you can store things in their cloud. Mind you, I love Evernote (it’s your fault, Seth for showing me how useful a program this is), but it is another way to store bits of notes and stuff. You can create a file called Scrap, and then play to your hearts content. PLUS Google Docs automatically saves on a regular basis. AND you can easily e-mail or share whatever you create.
And they will let you store just about anything up there, and pull it down onto any device.
Like I said – New Toy. One of my projects is using Google Tools/Docs, so I’m getting into using their apps. Not as elegant as Excel, but sharing is much easier. And I do like having access on my android tablet.
Google Drive looks really interesting, but it is more comparable to drop box than Evernote. Evernote lets you embed a file in a note, tag that note and write notes in the note about the file itself. Google Drive, like Google Docs is just file storage in the cloud. Of course the BIG advantage of Google Drive is that now it’s easy to share and send files to people, and sync with your desktop. It is also a lot less expensive than Drop Box is to the storage space!! Lots of people will be switching over!
Great video!
I especially appreciated the tip to plug the filepath into the actual note.