Evernote

There are those apps that you have know about for a while, maybe even tinkered with at little, but you don't really catch on to them.  Until one day.....bam....now I get it!  That is Evernote for me.  I have the app for Evernote on my phone and my iPad.  Actually, I started out with Evernote by signing up through the Internet for an account. 

Evernote is a place to put all of your notes and reminders.  Notes can be most anything from a note you type up, an email you want to keep or a picture.  You can even make a voice recorded note! In Evernote you create notebooks.  I have several notebooks, but for example, I have a notebook titled "Beginning of the Year", one called "Baseball" and one called "Recipes".  When I have a thought about something I need to do at the beginning of the school year I can open Evernote, open that notebook and add a note.  I can also hashtag my note to make them searchable. Notebooks and/or notes can be shared with others you want to collaborate with.

If someone emails me a great recipe, I can send that email to my Evernote account and put @Recipes in the subject line.  That email will go directly to my Recipe Notebook.  I can even put #apple #pie in the subject line and it will be tagged.

I am a baseball mom.  I travel all over the place going to baseball games.  I can never remember what the facilities at all the fields are like for spectators.  Sometimes the bleachers are covered, sometimes there is a shady tree that I can put a lawn chair under, etc.  When I get to a field, I open Evernote on my phone, open the Baseball notebook, take a picture of the bleachers and hashtag it with the name of the field. 

This is a tool that students can definitely get started using on their devices.  The can keep all of their electronic notes organized and even share their notes with others. 

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