Truthful Politics

I am going to do a non-political post today and discuss Evernote, a wonderful free (you can upgrade to a premium account) utility to help keep you organized. If you are not familiar with Evernote please check it out. If you are like me and have paper bits all over the place; notes on napkins, business cards, receipts, any and all lists. How about when you browse the internet and find a snippet of something very interesting and want to remember it? or in an email?

Here are two examples of my favorite personal uses for Evernote. My husband and I love to tour our local vineyards and there are quite a few here in the Piedmont region of NC. We limit ourselves to purchasing two bottles of wine at each vineyard. If we find a third or fourth that we love I will take a picture of the wine label and send the label to Evernote and put it in my Wine Notebook. I also take a picture of our wine rating sheet so I can remember which ones we did or did not like. That way if I am in a restaurant that features local wines I can go to Evernote and look up my rating sheet. I do the same for videos that I might see on the shelf somewhere that I think we would be interested in seeing. Then the next time I go to my Netflix account I pull up my Evernote Notebook titled Movies and I have a few I can choose from.

For business uses Evernote is invaluable. I do a lot of research on the Internet, so I created a Research Notebook in Evernote to save my clippings. Not only will Evernote clip what I need but it will save the URL for me. I like to have my receipts sent to me via email, the Apple Store will do this, also anything I purchase online sends the receipt to my email account. I can save these receipts right from my MAC email to Evernote.

Recently there was a wonderful discussion on Chris Brogan's blog about the uses of Evernote and it seemed a few people commented that it would be great if Evernote had a way to save emails from MAC's email client. Here is a way this can be done.

Go to the email you want to save. Go to the upper left corner to File and in the drop down menu click on Print.*

A Print dialogue box will open with a button called PDF on the lower left. Open this box and scroll down to Save PDF to Evernote.

Once you click on this your email will now be in Evernote, a sweet program for organizing all the things you do on the computer or off.

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