But days and weeks would go by until, in resignation, I just moved them all to the trash. My e-ail inbox used to fill up with messages I wanted to respond to or otherwise use.

He writes the documentation for Evernote, and he’s an Evernote ninja himself. If you want to be the ultimate Evernote ninja, read Brett Kelly’s Evernote Essentials ($29). “Let’s see, where’s that message from the guy who sharpens throwing axes?” Transcriptions of voicemail from Google Voice, FreedomVoice, or other services can even be sent to Evernote, too. Jot a note in Evernote’s 99 cent iPad companion, Penultimate, and almost undecipherable handwritten scribbles magically become searchable.Īnnotations and captions can be added to images or screen-grabs with Evernote’s free Skitch app, and they’re searchable along with regular text notes. Best of all, Evernote scans everything you send, so pictures of signs, wine labels, business cards, and anything else with words become searchable in Evernote.

Your items become an organized collection designed to help you get things done.įrom desktop, laptop, or mobile device (Mac, PC, iOS, or Android) your items are uploaded to the Web so you can share them with your other devices and other people.

Think of Evernote as an external hard-drive for your brain, a place where you can save all kinds of digital stuff: notes, pictures, audio, PDFs, web pages-even ideas for an OPEN Forum article about Evernote.īut Evernote isn’t just a higgledy-piggledy repository for your digital detritus. All you need is one unorthodox weapon- Evernote. If you’re a road warrior and use a tablet or smartphone you can be a mobile ninja. Ninja warriors specialized in unorthodox warfare.

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