Fun Stuff Friday: Getting Social with Evernote

In this day and age, staying organized can be very difficult. To maintain productivity and organization, many have turned to Evernote, a multi-platform application that allows users to create and categorize notes in Evernote notebooks. The application’s expanding user base has led to an increasing number of application add-ons and new social capabilities. Here are three features that will help you get the most out of Evernote.

Twitter and Email Integration – By following @myEN, you can setup Evernote to capture all of your tweets with “@myEN” in the body as well as direct messages to the @myEN account. This integration helps users deal with the here one second, gone the next nature of social media. If you see a tweet/link in your stream that you’d like to save, simply copy the text, send a quick DM, and view it later in Evernote. The email integration works similarly. The application assigns each user an Evernote specific email address, and all mail sent to it is converted to notes. Now when you get an important email, forward it to your Evernote address, and you are more likely to remember to respond.

Sharing Notes – Another way to take advantage of social media with Evernote is sharing notes to Facebook. This can be particularly effective within groups because you can target a specific friend segment that the note or task is relevant to (i.e. “Cycling Club”). The greatest value in sharing notes however, is that sharing also creates a public copy of a note with a specific URL. For convenience, you do not have to post on Facebook to share notes publicly, and you can always stop publicly sharing a note from the Evernote interface at any time.

Public Notebooks – Several companies now offer Evernote notebooks that you can download and add on to with your own notes. The content of these notebooks is usually both a resource and a source of inspiration. Examples include recipe books, photography guides, and art collections. Adding your own recipe to a notebook and then sharing it is just one way brand and consumer co-creation can be facilitated by public notebooks.

These three features may help you stay organized, but hopefully they also add some fun to your social experience! Whether discovering new pieces of art from a public notebook, creating grocery lists, or sharing your grandmother’s famous blueberry pie recipe with relatives on Facebook, Evernote has something for almost everyone.

Do you have any experience with Evernote? Let us know how you use it? What are your favorite features, we’d love to hear your thoughts!