I have written about Evernote in a previous post, in that post I wrote about how you can use Evernote to store your blog ideas, and gave you some great tips on some of Evernote’s features.
In this post I want to focus on something else that I use Evernote for. I am generally out and about a lot during the day and sometimes I am am not with my computer, so when I get action oriented emails they can get lost just in the shear volume of emails that come in during the day.
You might be wondering how Evernote could help with my email issue… well let me share a cool trick that I use. I have a “tag” in my Evernote called To Do :) when I see an email that needs my attention at a later time I email it to my Evernote email (I wrote about how to do that here) and make sure to tag it with the #To Do.
Now I have two different ways that I can access this To Do list… If I am out of my office and waiting for something I can open up my Evernote Mobile application and check to see if there is anything I can get done while I wait, or when I get back to my office I can open up my desktop version of Evernote and check out the list there. When I complete a task from the To Do list, I just remove the To Do Tag and I keep my list clean.
Another way that I use this same system is that I have a Noteook stack (a stack is like a folder for a group of notebooks) called “customers” and I have a notebook for each of my customers underneath.
When I send an email to Evernote that is related to a customer I just have to add the name of the notebook along with the tag of the To Do and then I have the history of each customer and the tasks that I have completed for them.
( see the instructions here from Evernote on “Adding content to Evernote using email”)
