{"id":75,"date":"2013-09-10T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T21:47:17","slug":"evernote-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/archives\/75","title":{"rendered":"Evernote & Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Evernote\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you heard of Evernote<\/a>? A lot of people have, but surprisingly, many have not. And that’s unfortunate because it’s a handy little free service that allows you to store and access notes wherever you are. There’s a desktop version for your home computer, an app for your phone (iPhone or Android), and you can access your account via a web browser anywhere there’s internet access. Talk about convenient!<\/p>\n

There’s no limit to what you can use Evernote to track, but here’s what I use it for:<\/p>\n

Conversations<\/strong> – I track conversations I’ve had with companies, particularly for those I have to contact repeatedly for answers. I note the date, time, person I spoke with and the results of that conversation. I include screenshots from websites where necessary. This saved me when disputing a charge for my local newspaper as I had a screenshot that contradicted what I was told. So again, another money saver.<\/p>\n

Donations<\/strong> – I take pictures of the items I’ve donated and note their donation date, where they went, and a brief description of what is pictured. This helps jog my memory when a year later I’m wondering why something has “disappeared”. In addition, I keep track of monetary donations made to the local food bank and other charities so I can record them when tax season comes around.<\/p>\n

Home Inventory<\/strong> – Ever buy, let’s say, toilet bowl cleaner, only to come home and realize you already have three bottles of it in the garage? Well I have, but I don’t anymore. I keep an inventory of my cleaning products in Evernote so I know when I’m low on something and when I have plenty of something else. Of course this requires discipline to keep the list updated so your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

Location of infrequently used items<\/strong> – Nothing is worse than tearing apart the house looking for your packing tape or the window fan you stored away once it got colder outside. Well, if you make a note of where you put them you wouldn’t have that problem! So whenever I put something seasonal away, I make a note of its location for reference later. This also works well if, like me, you have a garage full of storage totes. I have many of mine color-coded (orange for Halloween, red\/green for Christmas, pink for Valentine’s Day, etc) but if you use more than one for a given holiday\/season it’s great to label them with a magic marker with a number and then note what is stored in each one. It will save you from digging through multiple totes to find what you’re looking for.<\/p>\n

\"Evernote<\/a><\/p>\n

Products \/ Food<\/strong> – I take photos of products or food I’ve tried and paste them into a note with my impressions. I can’t tell you how many times this has saved me from buying something at the store I already tried before and didn’t like. No more waste! On the flip side, it helped me recall items I did like so I could buy more.<\/p>\n

Travel Ideas<\/strong> – I use my travel notebook to keep track of future places I’d like to visit and build an itinerary from there. Eventually I end up moving the details into Excel because I’m a nerd like that but Evernote is great for the preliminary planning process.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there’s lots of other uses for Evernote but the above are just some ideas based on how I use it. Feel free to share your suggestions in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you heard of Evernote? A lot of people have, but surprisingly, many have not. And that’s unfortunate because it’s a handy little free service that allows you to store and access notes wherever you are. There’s a desktop version for your home computer, an app for your phone (iPhone or Android), and you can …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organization","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3SUar-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}