When Evernote was mentioned on this blog a while back, people have told me that they just can’t get the hang of it or they don’t understand how they can apply it. My reaction – neither did I – at first. I was actually introduced to Evernote a long time ago when it was still a desktop software and promptly dropped it. Then came Evernote as it is today, even after signing up, I just couldn’t find any way to apply it. But things have changed – a lot and now I’m finding more and more uses for it, I’d be quite handicapped without it.

One of my new favorite uses for Evernote is writing. Everything.

• Emails to be sent to affiliates, list subscribers or customers.
• Articles that are to be submitted to article directories or handed over to affiliates.
• Blog posts either for myself or guest posts which I do not know yet where to submit to, but I am slowly building a small list of ready to publish guest posts to be able to offer to any blog.
• Autoresponder sequences. I am already falling in love with this because once I wrote it up, I hit the handy Email button and it gets sent directly to my assistant. I even write down thoughts, actions and instructions so it serves the dual purpose of being a record of the AR sequence and a task manager for outsourcing. I could even expand the use by sharing notebooks, not ready for that yet though.

The only thing I haven’t done yet is to write a full report on Evernote and I doubt I’ll be doing that soon because reports are usually prettied up and it just works better in a WordProcessor – at least until Evernote provides more sophisticated editing tools and PDF export capabilities 🙂

Why write in Evernote? So many, many reasons but the biggest reason, it solves a dilemma I have regularly. You see, writing articles, not a problem. But I don’t like the many files I have created over the years. Searching articles is also a problem. I’m getting old, my memory isn’t as good 😉 and sometimes I don’t remember the article title or file name, just a phrase or something inside it. Searching across text and Word Docs and OpenOffice Docs ugh. Pain in the you know where. Multiple file formats is another problem. Why? Because some articles I like to include screen shots – can’t do that in text and since my assistant uses Word, I’d have to convert. Too much work.

On Evernote, all that is gone. I also get to de-clutter my hard drive Yay! More importantly, it’s online. Accessible from anywhere and from a boat load of devices. You name it they got it. WinMo, Palm, iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson and now, even the iPad which I can’t wait to try on. Sometimes I wonder how they keep up but hey I am definitely happy.

P/S: After a little more thought on this, you can even add tables and links to the articles as a way or recording where you submitted the article to and chart its performance and ROI over time.