Remember Everything

I am a serial idea generator.

I have been using a tasty little iPhone app called Evernote for about eight months. It makes it easy for me to capture, organize and develop ideas into usable form.

Evernote makes it incredibly easy to capture all your ideas, notes, pictures and even voice recordings. They are automatically stored at your account at Evernote. It’s all automatic, no tech required.

Use it anywhere on any platform.

I can be taking notes in a sermon in church, a meeting at Starbucks or working at home. I can type a note into my iPhone and it automatically syncs to my account. I can also access and edit my posts through my browser or a robust, dedicated application. If I am writing on my MacBook, I can see and update from there, too. It really doesn’t matter where I am or what platform. It also runs on Windows and Blackberry. BTW – iPhone text syncing is fast, even on the slow AT&T Edge network.

It’s now easy to capture my mind. I am a spatial willy-nilly thinker, so I can easily find my posts by keywords, tags or notebooks. It’s lightning fast. Posts can be any length from a tweet to a book.

Did I say tweet? Yes, they have just introduced integration with Twitter. Any or all of your tweets can be posted to your notes. Just put “@myEN” anywhere in your tweet and it gets put into your notebooks. If you send yourself a direct message, the post will be private. Sweet!

Evernote is feature rich, bulletproof and FREE! It’s so rare to find something so well designed. The best I can say about anything, including Evernote, is the more I use it… the more I love it!

Go to Evernote for even more features and the downloads…

Living in a World of Tweets

I am not a big tweeter, or to put it properly, a big user of the twitter social network, but I have to admit that it is slowly growing on me. If you don’t know, “tweets” are a name for the micro-blogs posted on twitter. They are limited to 140 characters for each post. Tweets give a very different sense of a person. I enjoy reading them. For someone I know, it gives a different perspective on their life, what they’re up to, how they like to share themselves. And, when I see them in person, I don’t really have to say, “How ‘ya doing?” I know that already.

I am also getting into crafting my own postings, from a simple tweet telling my world about this blog post, to my more zen-like…

Andrew loves the leaves popping out. God always brings forth life from the dead.

…with a little Christian structure thrown in. If you want more of these, you can follow me at alewis7.

Twitter postings are an interesting word puzzle. When you’re limited to 140 characters you have to choose your message, and your words very will. This is tough for someone as long winded as me.

The world’s expert on twitter?

I have also been following a few people I’ve never met, like Jack the twitter founder. I figure he must know best how to express oneself in 140 key strokes. He is the zen master of this world. So I sit at his feet for now and learn the way. Oh, for I am wrong. He says…

Grasshopper, there are many tweets that make a song. Be true to your inner voice.

Hmmm… just kidding. I guess there is no one right way to tweet. Anyways, at this moment, Jack has 336,254 followers, and he follows 414 people. He needs what I’m going to tell you about next.

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