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Inspiration strikes anywhere. The digital note-taking solution Evernote lets you capture, nurture, and share your ideas across any device. Check out Evernote and discover how it can enhance your productivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of you might have got a new smartphone or pad\/tablet for Christmas. There are a number of useful applications to run on your smart phone\/tablet. One of them is the note-taking application Evernote<\/p>\n

Before we go on to look at Evernote in relation to genealogy, I would like to discuss this software from a general perspective.<\/p>\n

Traditional note-taking<\/h2>\n

\"coffee-965768_640\"I am an old-fashioned notebook kind of guy. When I say notebook, I mean the kind made of paper. I used to have several notebooks and always tried to carry one with me to take notes on whatever I needed to remember. \u00a0I still have notebooks, but after learning about Evernote, I use it for an increasing number of tasks.<\/p>\n

I am sorry to say that I have gotten to the point where I always have my cellphone with me. However, it means that whenever I have a few spare minutes, I can kill time by checking mail, taking notes, or surfing the internet. If I see something I want to have a closer look at, I can easily save it to my Evernote account and download it to my computer. A number of the articles you read on my blog have started with a few keywords saved to Evernote. The great thing about Evernote is that, in addition to note-taking, it is easy to save links. Photos, videos, and even audio clips can be easily embedded in your notes.<\/p>\n

Evernote has three subscription plans. These are Basic, Plus, and Premium. The Basic plan is free and lets you use Evernote on two devices and gives you 60 MB of upload capacity per month (30days)\u00a0“to be saved in the sky” (This means that your total storage capacity is unlimited).\u00a0The maximum note size is 25 MB. The Plus\u00a0plan costs $ 3,99 \u00a0a month. It gives you 1 GB of uploads per month and you can run it on as many devices as you like. Max. note size is 50 MB. Here you can\u00a0access your notebooks off-line and forward e-mails into Evernote. The Premium plan costs $ 7,99 a month and gives you 10 GB of uploads per month in addition to a number of other features. Max. note size is 200 MB (Pricing at the time of writing)<\/p>\n

\"iphone-676726_640\"I think that most of us will be satisfied with the Basic plan. However, if you on a regular basis adds a lot of pictures, videos or audio files, you may find the upload and note size\u00a0capacity to be insufficient.<\/p>\n

If I have whetted your appetite you might want to go to the Evernote website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and have a look for your self. There are also a number of instructional videos on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Evernote in Genealogy<\/h2>\n

Evernote can be used for a number of purposes in our genealogical work. You can find a lot of information about this on the web.<\/p>\n

If you have not yet decided on a genealogy software, (You might want to check out my article about Choosing a genealogy software)<\/a> Evernote can be used to save and organize your initial findings.<\/p>\n

The content you add to Evernote is stored in a hierarchy. At the bottom level we have the individual notes.\u00a0<\/strong>These notes are stored in\u00a0notebooks.\u00a0<\/strong>If you want, you can then store a number of notebooks together in\u00a0stacks.\u00a0<\/strong>You are, of course, free to give the notes, notebooks and stacks names of your choice. A useful feature in Evernote is the adding of tags.\u00a0<\/strong>Tags let you add keywords to notes, making them easier to find and browse when you\u2019ve got a lot of them.<\/p>\n

Based on this brief description, we can easily see how Evernote, in lack of a genealogy program, can be used to organize a limited amount of genealogical data. I write “limited amount of data” as I think that if you choose to go all in for genealogy, you should get a proper genealogy program.<\/p>\n

Also in the data gathering process I think Evernote can be a useful tool. I hinted at this in my article\u00a0“It is time to clean out the attic”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On my Android phone and tablet Evernote interact seamlessly with my web-browser making it easy to save websites that I want to have a closer look at. When I take a picture with the cellphone camera, it is easily embedded into a note as Evernote comes up as an alternative in the same menu as your other sharing options. I have no experience with iPhone\/iPad, but I imagine that it works in a similar way. This feature makes it easy to take a picture of a location or artifact and add notes about the details.<\/p>\n

On my computer I have installed the an extension to my Google Chrome web-browser called “Web Clipper”. This extension gives me several features to easily save webpages to Evernote.<\/p>\n

Here is a book about using Evernote for genealogy. I have not read it, but it has received good reviews on Amazon<\/p>\n

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How to Use Evernote for Genealogy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organize Your Research and Boost Your Genealogy Productivity<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>by\u00a0<\/span>Kerry Scott<\/a>\u00a0(Author)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I want to point out that I have no affiliation with Evernote. I receive no compensation in any form for writing this.<\/p>\n

If you try out Evernote for genealogy, please comment below and tell us how it works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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