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Your Notes—Available Everywhere

Miguel Kagan

Evernote, is a really cool program that allows you keep your notes, lesson plans, and any information organized and available from wherever you are. Think of Evernote as a virtual file cabinet that you can access from wherever you are. How helpful is that, to be able to open your massive file cabinet and lay your fingers on exactly what you need, from wherever you are?

You can access, edit, and save your notes from your home computer, school computer, or from your phone. Evernote offers a Mac and PC version for your computer, phone apps for when you're mobile, and an internet account so you can access your notes from any computer with internet access.

What can you store in Evernote?
• Lesson plans
• Student information
• Class photos
• Audio notes (up to 90 minutes)
• Web pages
• PDF files for blacklines/activities
• Premium users can also store Word docs and Excel spreadsheets

Tags

Tags are a helpful approach to organizing your notes. For example, you could use tags to organize your lesson plans by subject. Your tags might be:
• Math
• Science
• Language Arts
• Social Studies

That way, you can search within any tag to ensure you are searching in the right category.

Tags are really flexible, so you can have tags for whatever you find helpful. You can have a "kids" tag to keep the info on your kids. A "medical" tag for your medical notes and results. A "password" tag to keep all your passwords organized. You can even have a "Kagan" tag to keep all your Kagan structures, ideas, and activities in there.

Webpages

Do you ever wish you could read webpages offline? Or maybe store a webpage for future access? Evernote installs a little elephant icon on your Web browser. You just click the elephant from the Web page you're on and it'll send the Web page to Evernote for you so it is always available.

Notebooks

All your notes are stored in notebooks. You can have one notebook, or you can create multiple notebooks for different purposes. For example, you can have a Personal notebook to store all your personal information and a School notebook to store all your school-related information.

Search

Find things fast. Search by typing a word, search by tags, search by date, search by location.

Text Recognition

Text recognition is a magical little feature of Evernote. Say you or your students did a mind map on the whiteboard that you want to save. You take a picture of your whiteboard with your camera phone and send it to Evernote. Evernote will convert your handwriting into searchable text, making it easy to find the note based on its content. The text in any picture you take becomes searchable.

Evernote for Students

Evernote is a great tool for students too. Students can store and organize all their class notes, research, papers, lectures, and more in Evernote.

Check It Out

Evernote has good documentation and getting started tips and guides. Go to their Website www.evernote.com to learn more or sign up for a free account.