I’ve heard Evernote is a great tool. I even downloaded it to my phone but I haven’t taken the time to figure it out yet. Sounds like I should make the time, huh?

BTW, it sounds like your experience with Evernote would make for a great article here on B2B Writing Success. I would certainly read it.
Hope to see more soon!

John

This was a helpful article. Thanks for the tips you shared.

I’ve had a big challenge staying organized until recently. Last year I started using Mind Manager (a mindmapping software package from Mindjet) to organize and index all the files and research I did for content development. That worked well, but it was a little cumbersome. It had the further disadvantage of not being the same on all my computers. If I had an information resource on my laptop, it wasn’t necessarily available on my desktop or my tablet device. In addition, I often didn’t know in which mindmap I’d filed a reference, so I had to do a lot of cross referencing.

About a month ago I started using Evernote seriously, following the advice of MIchael Hyatt. This has changed my worklife so much for the better! Now all my information is available equally across all my devices. It’s all searchable through tags that are almost infinitely customizable. And I can find everything I’m looking for within seconds.

Mind Manager is still a great tool for organizing thoughts and ideas, but Evernote has become my central repository for research and notes. I even develop blog posts directly in Evernote, then I copy and paste them into my content-management system for final editing and publishing. A pro-level subscription to Evernote costs only $5.00 a month, and it’s been well worth it for me.

If anyone’s interested, I’ll be happy to write something more about how I use it.

Dave