On the 11th Day of Tech Tools my ITRT gave to me:

If you have ever forgotten anything this tool is for you!   Evernote’s motto is “remember everything.”  Evernote can be used to make checklists, to-do lists, grocery lists, reminders, recipes, and pretty much anything you need to keep track of.  It is a digital way to “take notes.” Anything that you would write on a post-it or on your hand you can type into Evernote and save it.  The nice thing is you can access Evernote from any device that has Internet access.  You can even have it e-mail you reminders on specific dates and at specific times. I put the app on my phone and iPad.  Now when I lay in bed at night and think about what I need to do when I get to school I just pick up my phone and put it in Evernote. 

Evernote can also help you organize your classroom. You can save websites, videos, and pictures in each note. Read this blog post about how one teacher uses Evernote in her classroom.  She has some great ideas.

I hope this helps you to get organized!

Remember everything.

It's no secret I love Delicious bookmarking. Since it's web-based I can get to it from any Internet connection. Delicious is sharable, sociable (meaning also a social network of sorts), and search-able by hash tags. With that being said, LET me tell you about Evernote.

Evernote has the strength of the Delicious bookmark but Evernote enables the same connectedness with EVERYTHING you could possibly want to save, not just bookmarks.

Things you can gather/add/tag/save into Evernote:

• bookmarks (that's where Delicious stops)
• clips of web pages
• notes (Google docs are free, MS Office docs offered in Premium service)
• PDFs
• scanned documents
• wav files
• images
• emails
• text messages
• Tweets
• photos taken of white-board notes, which Evernote can then scan for text in the picture :0

All this information can be synchronized/synched between your laptop, desktop, iPad, iPod, Droid, or the Web.

You categorize the items/things listed above as individual "notes" into notebooks, and you can assign one or more tags to each note. Then you can search the text in the title, the note itself or as one of the tags.

You may have heard the term, 'cloud computing' before. The term is usually associated with hosting information, data, or files on-line with a third-party vendor. Evernote can be considered a 'cloud' application because it's all kept electronically online.

Evernote notebooks are sharable by email invitations and the sharing of a web link as well as embedding a widget into any web page. There is a limit of 100 notebooks.

Did I mention this application and/or service is FREE???

~Liz Goodwin

Evernote links to checkout:

My 'Notebook' on this blog post!

http://www.evernote.com/pub/goodwies/evernote

Getting Started

http://www.evernote.com/about/support/getting_started.php

Evernote Blog

http://blog.evernote.com/

The Trunk

http://www.evernote.com/about/trunk/

Teaching PowerPoint of Evernote

http://www.slideshare.net/theunquietlibrary/introduction-to-evernote-fall-2010