Is organization high on your resolution list? Then You Need Evernote. I have talked about my use of Evernote in the past, and how I think it is one of the best apps EVER.
Better in 2013
If one of your resolutions this year is to be better organized, then Evernote is a must have. I have not found a tool that can beat what Evernote does, especially for FREE!
Information Overload
The typical family has paper, calendars, task lists, work, and school assignments to manage. Information is easily accessible today, but how do you remember it all. Even if you could keep or capture all that info, it is useless if you cannot organize and find it when needed.
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Evernote’s goal is to help you capture anything, access it anywhere, and find it fast. There are a ton of ways families can use Evernote to remember and organize their stuff. To show you some of these uses I have compiled a list of 101 ways your family can use it.
101 Ways Evernote Can Help Your Family Remember and Organize Everything
- Task management/To-do list
- Homeschool record keeping
- Family blogging
- Contact management/address book
- Recipes and cookbooks
- Receipts for taxes
- Warranty info
- Consumer Research
- Gift ideas and lists
- Family tree/history/geneology records
- Book/reading note system
- Bible study
- Class notes
- Track growth of your kids (take pic same place, same time, each year or month)
- Household project management
- Bank statement records (sometimes online banking will only show the last 12 months or so….clip them into EN)
- Journaling
- Kindle notes and highlights
- School portfolio
- Work portfolio
- Save mementos
- Homeschool projects
- Vacation planning
- Wardrobe planning (pick outfits and snap pics so when you don’t know what to wear you can search EN…can even categorize or tag by different occasions: business mtg, formal occasion, exercise, family reunion, networking event, church, etc)
- Household inventory
- Pet records
- Shot records
- ID cards
- Passwords
- Packing to locate things after moving and during packing
- Pics of bday cards
- Pics of gifts for writing thank you cards
- Store serial numbers of products
- Photo sharing/online photo album
- Document new home construction
- Save important voice messages w/Google Voice
- Document before/after pics of a repair
- Track automobile service records
- Take pics of gas and utility meters
- New home search
- Pics of biz cards
- Job search
- Goal setting and tracking
- Employment records
- Estate planning
- Party planning
- Book wish list
- Movie idea list
- Date night idea list
- Allergy list
- Medicine list if you take medication
- Printer ink #s
- Running routes
- Exercise and nutrition tracking logs
- Clothing sizes for family members
- Family reunion planning
- List of Favs
- Keep track of borrowed items
- Family library catalog
- Pics of car license and vin #s
- Voice recorder
- Dimensions of rooms in house
- Light bulb sizes for all lights in house
- Take pics of handwritten notes
- Inspiring quote list
- Baby name list
- Meanings of your kids names
- List of installed apps or programs on computers and mobile devices
- Weekly meal planning
- Grocery list
- Picture or scan to-go menus of fav restaurants
- Online scrap book for an event
- Track shoe sizes for each brand of shoe you wear (some brands the size is a little different)
- Hear a song and want to get it later…put in evernote
- List items in house that use batteries and keep list so you know what to get when at store
- Registration keys for software
- Timeline of your life’s important events
- Keep name of a server at a restaurant you like when you received good service to ask for them the next time
- School supply list
- Take pics if involved in an accident
- Photos of wiring system for your computer or entertainment system set up
- Track symptoms when not feeling well (can tell to doctor if you visit)
- Scan bills and throw away paper
- Take pic of the way something is suppose to look so the kids know exactly how it should look when they do it
- Electronic filing cabinet
- Clip interesting items from the web
- Keep online order confirmations and receipts
- Keep record of napkin or sticky notes
- Monthly memory journal for your kids
- Wedding planning
- Your gym class schedules
- Track spending
- Homeschool lesson plans
- Playbooks and practice plans for youth sports and/or training
- Pic of content of travel bag
- Remember parking spot
- Remember hotel number
- Reference list (personal, business references)
- Accomplishment list
- Track investments
- Fantasy league stat organization
There you have it. 101 ways to remember and organize everything for your family.
Question: Which of the 101 ways do you see as something you could use for your family?
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