{"id":25800,"date":"2014-04-21T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=25800"},"modified":"2014-04-21T05:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:00:53","slug":"12-surprising-evernote-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/12-surprising-evernote-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Surprising Ways to Use Evernote You Might Not Have Considered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been using Evernote since early 2008, when it was still in private beta. Since then, it has truly become my digital brain.<\/p>\n\n

Evernote is one of those rare apps I can\u2019t seem to outgrow. I am always finding new uses for it.
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\nIn this post, I want to share twelve ways to use Evernote you might find useful, and perhaps, even surprising.<\/p>\n\n

    \n
  1. Keep your medical records.<\/strong> I keep my doctors\u2019 names and contact information, medications and vitamins, surgeries and illnesses in a single note. This comes in handy whenever I go to a new doctor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Record your license plates.<\/strong> I don\u2019t need this information often, but when I do, I can never remember it. Now I just have a photo for each of my cars.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    Subscribe to email newsletters.<\/strong> I don\u2019t need more information cluttering up e-mail inbox, so I subscribe using my Evernote email address. (You can find this under Evernote | Account Info.) The newsletters get funneled directly into my database.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    Take a photo of your printer cartridge.<\/strong> I buy this infrequently enough that I can never remember my printer model, let alone what cartridge I need. With a photo, I can quickly reference it at Costco or my local office supply.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    Save important email messages.<\/strong> I generally file all my email messages in a singular archive folder. However, occasionally, I want to save a message related to a specific project. I simply forward it to Evernote and add the appropriate tags.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    Collect reader and listener questions.<\/strong> Whenever someone writes or calls with a question I have not answered, one of my assistants records it in Evernote and adds a \u201cquestions\u201d tag. Then when I am looking for blog post or podcast episode inspiration, I review the list.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    Maintain a packing list.<\/strong> I hate getting to my destination and realizing that I forgot something. That\u2019s why I maintain a comprehensive packing list in Evernote. Here\u2019s the actual list<\/a> if you want to see what I include.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    Snap pictures of your child\u2019s art.<\/strong> I got this idea from ShefsKitchen<\/a>. She takes pictures of her kid\u2019s art and then discards the paper. I have just started doing this with my grandkids. (Psst: Don\u2019t tell them.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    Clip web pages to read later.<\/strong> Whenever I come across an article or post I want to read later, I use the Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome<\/a>. I add a \u201cread later\u201d tag, that way I can get to these clips with a simple saved search. When I have read it, I remove this tag.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  10. \n

    Record my best haircut.<\/strong> Occasionally, I am unable to book my favorite stylist. The first question the new one asks is, \u201cSo how do you want me to cut your hair?\u201d Rather than tell them, I just show them. \u201cMake it look like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  11. \n

    Save speaker resources.<\/strong> I use Evernote to save all my personal anecdotes, illustrations, case studies, quotes, jokes, and statistics. (These are the actual tags I use.) I store these in a shared notebook called Speaking Resources, so my teammates can add to it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  12. \n

    Collect items for meetings.<\/strong> I create a tag for each upcoming meeting. It includes the date and a brief description (e.g., \u201c2014-07-11 – World Domination Summit\u201d). Then, as I create notes about the meeting or receive emails, I simply tag them. I can then sort the tags by name to put them in date order.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This hardly scratches the surface, but hopefully, it will stimulate a few ideas. The more you use Evernote, the more useful it becomes.<\/p>\n

    By the way, I have written twelve more posts about Evernote. Here is a handy index<\/a> for all of them.<\/p>\n

    What is an interesting way that you use Evernote?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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