Evernote allows you record a voice recording directly into a note, and it’s playable with a single click thus I can add a more direct “stream of consciousness” message to a written note to try and explain myself better than I perhaps could in writing.
To close the gap, we’ve started to experiment with “Evernote voicemails” – more accurately, audio files in notes. We message pretty regularly, and the notes in Evernote help, but there’s no match for a good conversation sometimes, especially when we’re ironing out the details of a big project or an issue of the magazine. The 6-hour time difference between us, plus hectic work and family schedules, makes it hard for Bojan and I to talk as much as we’d like. The native Evernote notifications feature works well to give me the gist of what Bojan has been up to when I log in, but most often we use internal linking and shards to ping each other with messages when we’ve made an update we want the other to review. Shared notebooks is the obvious mechanism that we use most often, with Alpha Efficiency project divided into separate notebooks, which we then update with ideas, tasks for each other, article,drafts and research materials. We’ve tried a few supplementary tools, and a few – like Dropbox and Numbers – have stuck, whilst others (Nozbe, Trello) have fallen by the wayside. Since Bojan and I started working together on Alpha Efficiency, Evernote has been the backbone of our collaboration. I can still remember first reading about Evernote and thinking “I can’t see myself using it that much.” Then, discovering ideas like receipt scanning, web clipping, idea boards and more, I started to use it all the time.
Sometimes the biggest challenge can be figuring out exactly what you can do with it.
0 kommentar(er)
