For the past couple of days, I've been busy experimenting with Evernote's capabilities. With the kids out for a walk with their Dad on this cold but sunny morning, I have a little time to share my discoveries!
I started out by experimenting with my "travel" notebook to test out the Evernote extension in Firefox. I tried clipping portions of travel websites as well as copying whole pages over to Evernote. I like the ease of the extension for adding tags and filing web pages to the correct notebook. I do not like the fact that there is a significant pause as the clip processes and one more than one occasion the entire format of the website--text and images--have been messed up in the transfer. This confirms my original suspicion that Diigo is the superior tool for internet research while Evernote is the superior tool for personal notes and organization.
After playing around with the Evernote Extension, I started to wonder how else I could use Evernote for documentation. Suddenly, an epiphany! I searched around my house, collected some of my son's artwork, scanned it, created a new notebook in Evernote under my Family stack, and then added the scanned files. Voila!
To further test it out, I tried syncing my desktop Evernote with the web version and my iPad App. Here, I had a little trouble. Syncing had some technical glitches and I had to reboot and try syncing about ten times. However, I prevailed and now I can see Ethan's turkey on several devices. Crazy!I now have a system for creating and viewing digital files of my children's work that will show progression over time. Of course, I'm still going to keep a box of their best work in their closet, but I think this is pretty nifty! I'm playing around with ideas for how to make the file work best. Perhaps I could have a file for each year and in that file I could add photos of milestones (e.g. riding a bike), artwork, etc., so I end up with a little digital scrapbook.
What do you think? How do you or would you use Evernote?
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