The Digital Whiteboard of My Mind

Remember Everything?

Have you got so many ideas in your head, and you can't quite get them all out?

I know we've all got our own ways of keeping notes or planning our goals, but if you haven't tried the remarkable (and free) app and web service called Evernote then... you have no idea what you are missing.  It is outstanding.  I think about it as the (digital) whiteboard of my mind.  Think about it like this:

You work in an office that is one room in a series of hallways in an office building.  In your line of work (as an entrepreneur think about all the different things you do everyday) you're always traveling in and out of your office as you not only complete all the task in your day, but plan, and expound, and create, and rabbit-trail, and return to the plan, and think of a new idea...  Some of these offices that you go into in your office building each day are simply required for you to complete your duties, others you go into because you are distracted about as you begin thinking of a new opportunity.  The offices that are necessary are the ones that are part of your daily work day.  The offices that aren't part of your normal routine you end up dropping into because you're interested in what they are doing.  You get distracted because you think it will create a new opportunity.

Now, I've driven the example a little far, but you get the point.  Well, think of all those "stop-ins" (when you drop by somebody's office that isn't exactly what you need to be doing, but you know there is something there), as mind detours.  Now, they are all valuable in there own regards, but they are nonetheless distracting.  And, because they are distracting you're having trouble working through your day, because you keep "entering other offices in your building" to work on something else.

So, here's my convoluted thesis:  Evernote is this in that scenario:  It is as if you painted a whiteboard on to every surface of the hallways in that office building that you work in.  You no longer have to walk into any office that isn't part of your normal work day and you can simply scribble notes on the whiteboard wall right next to that office.  Now, imagine that it is digital, and it keeps them all filed and compatibly reliable in an order all to your own, following you night and day.  Now imagine that it can take pictures, screen images, and record your voice.  You're getting the point...

With Evernote you can let go of everything big that you're working on in your mind and move forward with your daily tasks without loosing anything along the way.  www.evernote.com