Better business productivity with Evernote | ncorde
Evernote is a useful multi-platform app that lets you organise and collect notes. It is a great tool for easy synchronization of notes across multiple devices and various platforms. It’s used extensively to save, edit, and share notes among different devices and with multiple users. It works great for group collaborations and is great to jot down ideas on-the-go.
Evernote can store anything and everything, and it’s amazing. Not only can you store any text you’d like, but you can also capture audio, photos and PDF files, and have them appear in the note. Not only that, but the images and PDF files you add to Evernote become searchable.
The search capabilities of Evernote are amazing too!
With evernote you can give your team the one workspace they’ll need for all the steps of a project, from brainstorm to launch.Your business data stays in your control because Evernote protects it with industry-standard TLS/SSL encryption.
Aside from its use as a standalone tool for business productivity, Evernote has the capability to share both notebooks and individual notes via a unique URL link. Notebooks can be shared with read-only rights (useful for reference materials, company-wide memos, and business process documentation) or with the ability to make changes to everything you share (this feature makes Evernote an excellent tool for collaboration).
Evernote doesn’t take security matters lightly, so much so that the app provides an encryption feature to secure its users’ data. You can encrypt part or the whole text of your note using a password and no one will be able to read that text without the password.
These capabilities lend themselves to a number of Evernote uses:
What can Evernote offer the busy executive or small business owner who lacks the luxury of time to try every new app or service out there? To help you along, here are some suggestions on how to use Evernote to improve your business productivity, as well as a closer look at some of the most outstanding features that the note-taking service has to offer.
“Evernote allows everyone on the team to work more efficiently, regardless of their working style.”
Here are some examples of how to use Evernote for your business:
- Copy email threads into it that are worthy of keeping, or have important information in them straight into a new note.
- Take notes in meetings using Evernote. Use the audio record feature of Evernote to record the entire meeting.
- Store every Business idea straight into Evernote and Manage Meetings.
- Use Evernote as your filing cabinet. The amount of paperwork, receipts, and other documents businesses have lying around can be practically vanished. Documents can be scanned and stored in Evernote.
- Use Evernote to keep a duty roster or other schedule on hand and keep all your business reference information in one place.
- “To Do” lists, Task management, and tracking. Easily create tick boxes for items you need to follow up on. Once done, tick, and it’s done. Any other history or notes you’ve made about that item are kept right alongside the todo item itself – including any photos, files, or audio.
- Use Evernote to Track Competitor Information, Unlike large companies, investing time and resources toward this effort may not be an option. But a free product, Evernote, can help you organize competitive data quickly and easily.
- Use Evernote as a business blogging tool – store blog post ideas, collect various post components, and then write the post itself. This has proven to be a robust solution that enables us at nCorde to be working on several posts simultaneously.
- keep contact information. Use Evernote as an Address Book and Contact Manager.
- Take photos of meeting whiteboards and include them in Evernote notes. This will make the content searchable too.
- Organize business documents – keep important business documents like business plans, logos, and price lists in Evernote.
- Use Evernote to plan your business trips and save important information like your flights and boarding passes (or car rental information, if you’re driving), phone numbers, and addresses of people in your Evernote account.
Hopefully, these tips will help encourage you to give Evernote a chance to help manage your assignments for school, projects for freelance, and achieve deadlines for your next report. Are you using Evernote now? Do you have any tricks to put Evernote to better use? Share your tips with us in the comments section.
give Evernote a go…
It’s free for all devices – it doesn’t get any better than that!