You know when you’re falling in love and everything reminds you of your loved one?
Every song, every poem, every love story seems to have a direct tie in to your budding relationship. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, but the excitement is heady and you feel almost like you’ve had a little too much champagne.
That’s how I feel about discovering Evernote.
How is it that a simple, free application could captivate me so completely? Because it ROCKS!!!
Like anyone who’s just fallen in love, let me “count the ways:”
<3 It’s Free!!
<3 It pulls together any and all notes, videos, audio clips, URL’s, paragraphs or even sentences from whatever digital media you are browsing, whenever, wherever …
<3 It lets you organizes them into categories you create!
<3 It works on iPhone, Mac, iPad, and virtually everything else!
<3 It took me literally 60 seconds to begin using it successfully!!!
Here’s an example:
I’ve been invited to research and write an in depth article about the new Facebook Privacy Settings for an amazing online social media magazine. If they like it, they publish it!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, my not so old college habits kick in (graduated magna cum laude in Communications) and I begin researching with the intensity of Taz during a good feeding frenzy.
In the heat of the moment, I decide that maybe it’s time to check out this Evernote that my friends have been talking about lately. It looked cute.
As I researched Facebook’s byzantine (my 10 cent word for the day), it was SO easy to highlight, click the cute little elephant icon, and voila! A window pops up, takes my customization/notes in record time, and then saves them for me all in the folder(s) I effortlessly created. Every sentence, paragraph, fresh URL, even videos were saved all in one neat little package.
The kids and I are going out for Japanese food tonight at the little Express place, but if I have a brainwave while there, Evernote will let me whip out my iPhone and jot down a quick note and immediately bookmark it to the correct folder for it, or make a new one on the fly.
Can you see why I’m in LOVE? 
Can you see why the stars have all aligned and music is playing in my heart where there is none audible? It’s Evernote!!!!
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Totally agree with you Lori. Evernote is an exceptional service. Millions of people use it. It’s a service I would hate to be without.
Ahhh! OK, you DO use it! I hadn’t seen this yet when I commented on your Facebook Page. How long have you been using it and do you use it all with your video content? Enquiring minds want to know …
I have to agree with you I absolutely love Evernote and one thing you forgot to mention was it’s sublime mobile integration. With my Android device I can get all my notes and record new notes on the go. One of my favorite uses for Evernote is clipping a full webpage with an article I want to read but don’t have the time for at that moment and then reading it later when I have time on my mobile. Evernote rocks!
Love it Chad!! I realized I didn’t make much mention of it and so I did a quick video tutorial with that in there. I love this thing!! How long have you been using it?
I have been using Evernote since 2008 but have only really started using it heavily in the last year or so. It seems like everyday I find a new use or read up on a new use for Evernote that allows me to get even more use out of this great program.
That’s pretty amazing then. More people are commenting in different places about never going online without it and I’m quite intrigued. But I guess it’s like so much else that’s Social Media! Something can be deceptively simple and hugely powerful because the possibilities just go on and on. Kinda like that old Faberge Organics commercial. 😉
Just started using Evernote last week Lori and I totally agree with you! What a difference it has made in just a few short days!! Organization here I come!!!
This is SO cool Lesllie!! I see that you’re a blogger. How do you find yourself using Evernote?