{"id":3097,"date":"2011-10-08T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2011-10-07T20:17:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T00:17:55","slug":"organizing-your-life-with-evernote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/organizing-your-life-with-evernote\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Your Life with Evernote"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past year I have been using an online organizational tool called Evernote<\/a> to put my work and personal life in order and I can now say that this tool, whether used on my desktop or with the app on my iPad or Android phone, has become so invaluable I\u2019m not sure what I did without it. There are many ways that Evernote helps me stay on task and compiles my random thoughts and notes, but I am going to focus on how I use Evernote as a children\u2019s librarian. I use the keyword tagging, notebook organization, and searching tools to put the following ideas in use:<\/p>\n

– While browsing in bookstores I take pictures of the covers of children\u2019s and teen books (or the ISBN\u2019s) with my phone and upload them to my Evernote app so I can access these titles for possible consideration in the library\u2019s collection when back at the library.<\/p>\n

– I clip ideas for crafts, games, and programs from blog postings or parts of websites, including pictures associated with those ideas.<\/p>\n

– I type my notes for every meeting I attend into Evernote and can look back at any point for what was discussed on a certain topic by using the keyword search. I also take pictures of notes that have been written on a whiteboard and can use the word-recognition feature to search within the handwritten notes.<\/p>\n

– Within all of my notes, I create checklists of to-do\u2019s and can search for both finished and pending tasks.<\/p>\n

– Conferences have never been easier to manage with all of the information I need in one place for easy access to my flight information, hotel reservations, restaurants I want to try, conference session notes, etc. Even tracking expenses during conferences is simple- I take pictures of my receipts and submit them electronically.<\/p>\n

– I keep my contacts list always accessible by scanning in business cards which makes them searchable by any words on the card.<\/p>\n

Since I have access to Evernote wherever I am through the mobile app, I can always log ideas or inspirations that come to me at any time. I would love to hear if other children\u2019s librarians are using this resource and what other ideas you have come up with!<\/p>\n

Jennifer Salas
\nYouth Services Coordinator
\nMartin County Library System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past year I have been using an online organizational tool called Evernote to put my work and personal life in order and I can now say that this tool, whether used on my desktop or with the app on my iPad or Android phone, has become so invaluable I\u2019m not sure what I did without it. There are many ways that Evernote helps me stay on task and compiles my random thoughts and notes, but I am going to focus on how I use Evernote as a children\u2019s librarian. I use the keyword tagging, notebook organization, and searching tools to put the following ideas in use: – While browsing in bookstores I take pictures of the covers of children\u2019s and teen books (or the ISBN\u2019s) with my phone and upload them to my Evernote app so I can access these titles for possible consideration in the library\u2019s collection…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[155,141],"tags":[801],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-children-and-technology-committee","category-children-technology","tag-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}