Evernote: my number one planning tool

[rtoledo 16]

Here is a great blog post by Laura Dogget (http://lauradoggett.com/) outlining how she uses Evernote as a planning tool for her class.

"I will admit that until last summer I was an Evernote sceptic. The app had languished unused on my various Apple devices and it wasn't until this autumn that I began to appreciate the power of this tool.

I had spent last year trying to escape the chaos of multiple paper and electronic systems by using standalone teachers' planner applications on my iPad. I stuck with Planbook for some time, finding it worked well in isolation but didn't mesh at all well with other digital resources and I found switching back and forth to my calandar frustratingly clunky.

Enter Evernote. It is an online synch-able productivity tool that helps capture and store everything from webclips and images to text and audio. If you are on the road to GTD nirvana, Evernote certainly helps with the capture stage. In terms of word-processing power it is very basic indeed, but the structure of notebooks worked perfectly for the setup I was after. Even bigger bonus: admin rights weren't needed on my PC at school to install the application on my desktop. I set up a notebook for each class I teach in the first instance. I also have the Evernote app installed on my iPhone and iPad."

http://lauradoggett....-with-evernote/