Cellphones and laptops have become our primary channel of communication with colleagues at work, friends or family. Today, capability of our gadgets can limit or strengthen our interaction. Some add-on software applications on cellphone or laptop can help to improve your productivity, significantly.
‘App of the month‘, is a new series in e-power featuring highly useful software applications for your laptops, workstations or mobiles. e-power is an effort to help you improve your productivity at work. With this series we hope to take it to next level. All featured applications are selected through an intelligent research process and we hope you find them useful.
As we use less and less of paper, our work tables are neater but the computer desktops have got cluttered. Computers and mobiles have fundamentally altered the way we work. But switching to these digital media have also thrown up challenges in organizing information.
Online note taking tools like Evernote or Onenote can solve the challenge of collecting, organizing, managing and sharing information using a single platform. With these tools you have a paper note-book like experience across mobile and laptops.
We review Evernote, a leading ‘note’ making and archiving tool with 11m users worldwide. Microsoft Onenote is a simillar tool available with the MS-Office suite.
What is a note?
A ‘note’ could be anything. A text, address, photograph, scanned image, attached file with some text and table or any of these combined with each other. A ‘note’ can be tagged, arranged into different notebooks or folders, searched by any of these or the content inside the note.
Evernote allows you to create a note from a desktop application, a web based application (if you are not on your machine), a mobile phone or a tablet. Every piece of information added or updated from any of the devices is backed-up on the web.
‘Clip to Evernote‘ is another highly useful function. For using this utility, one has to just install a add-on for your Internet browser. Say, you are reading an article on the web and there is a piece of information: a paragraph or a photo that you want to save for future reference. With Evernote all you have to do is select the paragraph or photo and just ‘Clip to Evernote’.
You can then access, edit, annotate this clipped information from your mobile, desktop or web.
Remember White-boards, Slides,Book pages or Furniture designs …..
Evernote account come with an email address. Say, you are at a presentation in a conference and you really like this slide in the presentation. Well, take a snap and mail it to your Evernote email address. This way you can save the notes, diagrams on your white boards, hand-written notes from sticky notes or notebook, travel expense receipts, important documents like passport etc. or any other thing useful for future reference.
Remember Travel expenses, Emails, Project notes or Engg. Drawings ….
Evernote can be integrated with several other software tools that we use everyday. For example, integrating it with Outlook allows you to directly clip and send paragraphs from mails to Evernote. Other interesting add-ons include Click.to, Nozbe (project management software), Expensify (expense management tool). You can access the whole list here.
Evernote website has a section on how professionals from different fields are using it to improve their productivity.So, get on to a note making application and remember everything!
Evernote Peek for exam preparations on Apple ipad 2
