Some EverNote Screenshots
April 16th, 2005 by Matt
EverNote has become an essential part of my daily workflow and information tracking. Its simplicity and straightforward approach to capturing and organizing information just simply work for me.
Here are a couple of screenshots of the elements I mentioned in my previous post:
On the left, the TimeBand for all my notes. On the right, an example of the TimeBand when only a subset of notes are selected (when I select notes in one of my categories). Note the automatic adjusting of the scale, and the “>” to indicate the presence of notes on specific days.
Here is my category list.
And here is the right-click menu from within a note, showing the formatting options available.
Hi Matt!
You probably don’t remember me, but I’m one of Allison’s buddies from high school — we’ve met once or twice I think.
Now a days I’m working on writing a novel, and the idea of this note taking software really struck a chord for me. In your opinion, would this kind of thing be useful for that kind of creative free-form thought? I tend to write in fits and starts, jumping all around. If I could just write and worry about organizing it all coherently later, that would really be an advantage!
I’d love to hear your thoughts. And yay for the blog! Welcome to the addiction. ;c)
~Lacy
Hey Lacy - I absolutely remember you! Thanks for checking out my blog.
Regarding EverNote and writing, I think that using it the way you describe - more of a capture of several free-form and potentially unrelated snipits of though - would work well. EverNote doesn’t have any advanced text or paragraph formatting and doesn’t have spell check. But, it is fantastic about helping you capture thoughts and then relate them. I actually use it to capture quotes and some brainstorming ideas as well.
If you want to play around with it, check out the Auto-Categories, which you can use to automatically assign categories to notes based on certain criteria. For example, you can assign all notes that contain the word “Allison’s brother” to the category called “cool people related to friends”.
Good luck with your novel!