Evernote Replaces the Internet Article

[CaptainTime 94]

Thought I would share a recent article I wrote "Evernote Replaces The Internet!" about on my experience when the Internet went out at my home office.

http://captaintime.com/evernote-replaces-internet/

 

Evernote really came through for me and I can see how it would work even better if I were using it better.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

Thought I would share a recent article I wrote "Evernote Replaces The Internet!" about on my experience when the Internet went out at my home office.

http://captaintime.com/evernote-replaces-internet/

 

Evernote really came through for me and I can see how it would work even better if I were using it better.

Thanks for the link to the post, but, in the interest of keeping this forum from devolving into a link farm for people's blogs (yes, the irony of my signature is not lost on me), could you at least give us a summary of the article? That might be more likely to generate a discussion.

[CaptainTime 94]

Sure GrumpyMonkey,

 

Here is a synopsis of my experience that I wrote about in the article.

 

After an "upgrade" from my cable company to move all my business phones over to them, the Internet stopped working that night and the next day. I called for a technician, but was forced to work without the Internet.

 

I am a speaker and had some presentations to prepare and I use the Internet a lot to do research for ideas for my presentations.Then I remembered that I had been using the Evernote Web Clipper to capture articles from the web and from my Feedly Newsreader. So I went looking within Evernote for content instead of the web.

 

The Good: I was pleased to find there were indeed a number of articles on the topic that I was working on, so I opened them up and started using them for inspiration.

 

The Bad: I read news using Feedly and often click on a link within Feedly to save the articles to Evernote. Unfortunately this just saves a note with the link to the article, not the whole article. In recent months, I had those articles going into my Evenote Inbox Notebook and then I would open the actual articles and resave them, but in the early days of using Evernote and Feedly I hadn't thought of this. Not Evernote's fault of course - just my useage of it.

 

What I Learned: I learned that I need to be even more focused on clipping everything useful I find on the web into Evernote and to ensure I am saving the whole article, not just a link to it. Doing this creates my own personal knowledge library that can still work for me even when I am offline.