THE DREAM IN ACTION

This is as much of a post about sharing Evernote with you as it is an apology to Evernote for not giving you a chance until now. My mistake and my loss, learn from me and your gain. The simplest way to explain Evernote to those of you who don’t know is that it’s a database for you brain. If you have ADD (like me) it’s a must have tool! Evernote collects information in almost any format that you could ever want to throw at it, and it creates the ability to log, categorize, and store that info. Then, when you need to find something from a random though a few months back, you can search and the search is amazing! One crazy example of the technology is that you can write your name on a white board, take a picture of the whiteboard, then save that picture to Evernote and search for your name. Evernote will pick-up the text from the picture and make that text searchable…incredible!

For so long I had heard about people using Evernote for notes, picture search, and other menial tasks and I dismissed the service. I was actually using the Notes iPhone app and TextEdit saving files in this format, “4/22 notes”. That was dumb. Now that I use Evernote I can tag thoughts, search history and “appear” to the world that I have a great memory.

As a person with brutal ADD, this web service may become my most valuable. I’ve only been using it a week but I’m in love already.

Here’s a little tip on importing old notes into Evernote:

1. Download RTF/TXT Evernote importer

2. Install the application

3. From Evernote, make sure these preferences are selected.

4. File > Import … select all your files and your entire ‘Notes’ history is searchable, backupable, and awesome!

Let me know if you have any questions ryan [at] thedreaminaction [dot] com