Sustaining Productivity
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This document discusses using Evernote for digital note taking. It highlights some of the advantages of digital notes through Evernote, including advanced searchability, online access, embedding documents and photos, and reminders/alarms. It also notes that Evernote allows for a combination of paper and digital notes through features like text recognition, metadata, annotation, and customizable organization across notebooks. The document provides a list of Evernote apps and services as well as additional Evernote features.
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Sustaining Productivity
- 1. Sustaining Productivity Using Evernote to embrace digital notetaking… Alma Rhoden | apitchford@luc.edu | x56395
- 2. Paper Don’t feel like you need to abandon your Molskeins to be digital or sustainable!
- 3. Digital Don’t discount your device if you have a stray noteworthy thought.
- 4. We all know what can go wrong Digital and Paper both have their downsides
- 5. What can go right? Advanced searchability Online omnipresence In-line documents, photos Reminders and alarms Annotation Web-clipping Tagged notes Notebooks (and stacks) Apps with drawing support. Your own combination of paper and digital notes, your own organization…optimized.
- 6. Evernote and Paper Text recognition, metadata, automation and annotation
- 7. Evernote and Digital Simplification, context, multimedia, sync and share
- 8. Names of things… Evernote (free*) Android IOS Blackberry Windows Mac OS X Penultimate (free) IOS Web Clipper (free) Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari I told you I’d get it in a list for you Premium membership ($5 monthly) allows offline access, priority OCR processing.
- 9. Even more things that I didn’t talk about today! Skitch Freehand or stamp-based annotation for documents and photos Evernote Food GeoTag restaurants and food trucks, save food pictures, store recipes Evernote Hello Connect contacts, social networks, scan business cards, maintain meeting history Evernote Clearly Strip webpages of “distractions” and save them for reading Evernote Peek Flashcards, optimized by iPad Smart Covers. If This Then That Automate behaviors across services. Even if you don’t install Evernote, you should check this out.
Editor's Notes
- While you are all getting situated with your devices (whether the ones we brought, or your own) I’ll give a brief intro to myself and the area I work in. Feel free to take notes! Intro to Digital Media Services: Digital Media Services maintains many of the open access labs on campus and operates a comprehensive Equipment Loan Program that encourages members of the Loyola community to expand their digital practices by trying before buying or by supplementing a temporary technology need. In the end our goal is to foster a more well rounded digital citizen to evolve in each of us.
- Paper is everywhere, it’s easy, it’s offline, it’s mobile, it’s freehand, but it’s not the best for the environment and it’s not the best for someone who craves a minimalist workspace. I personally find that when I don’t move a note to the recycling bin or shredder within 72 hours, it’s going to be a fixture for a while, caught in a treacherous black hole of lost context. The key to closing that hole in my workflow is a digitizing step that doesn’t add thousands of files to my computer with little to no organization.
- Digital note taking enables metadata, context, syncing, sharing, multimedia and editing without white-out. Strictly speaking, opening up a notepad on your desktop or using Microsoft Word doesn’t even get you all of those features. A well orchestrated file organization system has to step in and be 100% reactive to new files.
- Dead batteries, dead pens, out of drive space, stacks of paper, having the wrong device or the wrong notebook… [audience participation]
- Here’s a (and not all-inclusive) grand list of features for Evernote, many other digital note-taking programs or apps have similar features, look at what you need before you go signing up for things (even free things). I’ll be walking through a few operations that should give you a glimpse at most (if not all) of these features.
- Evernote is not a Loyola endorsed app, but I have found it incredibly useful especially in the last several months as I’ve used the paper integration tools Paper is not something we can avoid, and maybe that’s okay. Paper doesn’t need to be a desk fixture: jot something down, digitize it, and then recycle it. Evernote can optimize your paper workflow, adding information and closing those black holes that lead to stacks of paper, folders, post-its, tabs and flags. [demos] Take photo of post-it > color coding for notebooks and tags Search content in molskein page > OCR
- What starts as digital can stay digital, no need to print things out to save them, mark them up, or tie them with other items. [demos] Email something to Evernote > even closer to the Zero Inbox Show screenshots and documents in Evernote > Annotation for status statements, commentary, etc Web Clipper to grab tips on Presentations Create Speech to text note on mobile > multimedia and sync, automatic naming Show note from Penultimate in Evernote (desktop)
- Here’s a list of all of the tools I’ve touched on today as well as the systems that are supported for each. Evernote is very widely supported and its community is very engaged which leads to even more features and compatibilities. The trick to Sustainable Productivity—well, any productivity, is Sustaining it to begin with.
- There are even more sub-apps that you can use to get closer to a paper-minimum workflow. I have experience with some, but not all. If you have any questions about anything you’ve seen or anything that’s on the screen now, I’d be happy to answer them.