![]() ![]() I had a look through Thomas MacEntee’s article Evernote: Your Virtual Genealogy Assistant for a good review of the features of Evernote.Saved the page into my Research Tools notebook and then spent a few hours going through it. ![]() I googled “evernote for genealogy” and right near the top of the search results was this treasure trove of possibility on the Cyndi’s List site.I immediately saved the Colleen Green page above into the Research Tools notebook, and tagged it “evernote” and “tools”. (Thank you, Colleen.) I had an old notebook called “Genealogy” that was my holding cell for everything related to family history that I had clipped in the past, and I stuck that in there too with the intent of sorting the notes into their proper homes at some point, say, when I get tired of watching Evernote tutorials. I decided to do a quick setup on Evernote, creating a notebook stack called Genealogy that contained three folders (for now at least): Maternal Line, Paternal Line, and Research Tools.But I liked her note naming and tagging conventions and mentally tagged these for consideration going forward. My temptation was to just take her process and make it mine, but quickly realized that this was a rather hasty decision if Evernote and I are going to be best friends going forward. I had a peek through the GDO social media sites and found an excellent piece by Colleen Greene on how she uses it. ![]() I will very likely hit the wall on storage and will upgrade to the Premium product even though it breaks this Canadian’s heart to buy anything in US Dollars these days. I use the Chrome browser on all devices and have the Evernote Web Clipper extension on my Mac which means I just click the icon to initiate a new note. ![]() I also have Evernote on my aging iPad and on my iPhone 6. But other than using it to clip the occasional newspaper article, I’ve never harnessed the (apparent) power of Evernote as an overarching organizational tool for managing my research.Īs part of my 2016 Genealogy Do-Over (GDO), I decided to get serious about Evernote.Īside: My Evernote setup. I have the desktop version running on a Mac (running OS X 10.11.2). I’ve been researching my family history for 30 years, and have had Evernote on my computer and mobile devices for 3 or so. ![]()
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