Saving Sanity With Evernote
Guest Post by Diana Brandmeyer
Evernote has become one of my top valuable tools for taming my writing research.
Things Evernote can do:
• Synchs your computer with your notebook/iPad and phone
• Gives you the ability to capture photos with your phone (think museum signs, magazine articles, highlight notes from a book you’re reading)
For the remainder of Diana’s tips on how to use Evernote for writers, click here.
Christian author Diana Lesire Brandmeyer writes historical and contemporary romances. Her historical, A Bride’s Dilemma in Friendship, Tennessee is now available. She’s also written We’re Not Blended-We’re Pureed, A Survivor’s Guide to Blended Families. Once widowed and now remarried she writes with humor and experience on the difficulty of joining two families be it fictional or real life.
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A Bride’s Dilemma in Friendship, Tennessee
Heaven’s Stolen His Heart
After witnessing the ravages of the Civil War, Travis Logan vowed to give up doctoring. But when fellow steamboat passenger Caleb Wharton collapses at his feet, Travis knows he must lend his aid. As the old man lies dying, he makes Travis promise to take care of his land and find Heaven. Travis can’t help but wonder what Heaven has to do with a real place, so he heads to Caleb’s farm to fulfill his promise.
Weeks of facing marauders and caring for her father’s home have finally taken their toll on Heaven Wharton. When an unknown young man charges the house, Heaven attempts to fire a warning shot but ends up shooting the man instead. Shocked, she and her sister, Angel, drag a semi-conscious Travis into the house and nurse him back to health.
As Travis and Heaven both struggle to control their destinies, will they learn that only a heart that follows God can ever find peace on earth?
After the Civil War, Travis Logan vowed to give up doctoring. But when fellow steamboat passenger Caleb Wharton collapses at his feet, Travis lends his aid. As the old man lies dying, he makes Travis promise to take care of his land and find Heaven. Travis can’t help but wonder what Heaven has to do with a real place.
When an unknown young man charges the house, Heaven Wharton attempts to fire a warning shot but ends up shooting the man. Shocked, she and her sister, Angel, drag a semi-conscious Travis into the house and nurse him back to health.
As Travis and Heaven both struggle to control their destinies, will they learn that only a heart that follows God can ever find peace on earth?
Thanks for this information. I’d heard of this, but hadn’t tried it
I downloaded Evernote a long time ago, but couldn’t quite figure out how to use it. Diana’s post helps! Thanks for coming by, Holly.
Holly, give it a try! You may be hooked faster than you think.
Diana
When Jean was talking about Evernote, I downloaded it. It’s on my Mac and my iPod touch. Have I ever actually used it? Um, no. Keep meaning to spend the time to figure out how it’s going to be useful to me, but I haven’t yet.
Thanks for this.
Erin,
I did the same thing! Then I started hearing more about it and went searching for ways to use it. Now I love it.
I figured out how to make a check list the other day. I was pretty impressed with myself. ;0
Diana
Diana,
Thanks for the encouragement! I’m going to start playing — Lifehacker just had a post about how to use Evernote as a journal, using If This Then That to copy tweets, Facebook posts, and other such info. It sounded pretty good!
Erin, I recently discovered IF This Then That too. I did use it for awhile for my tweets but found it was taking too much of my data space. Of course that was only one month. I’d like to figure out how to save just certain tweets –ones that I might reuse.
Nick, at lifehacker.com is a valuable resource.
Diana
This is on my short list of things to download and learn to use. Thanks so much for this post on it!
Patty,
It would be helpful for you with the memes you run.
Diana
I love Evernote. It’s invaluable. Don’t use it for research pictures though. That’s why I have Pinterest, and since I pin from museum websites most of the time I’m not worried about copyright stuff. Right now I use notebook stacks more than tags. Most of my research stuff doesn’t carry over to other projects.
I have it on my phone too, and when I was brainstorming in the car last week I was able to open it up, go to my Craft Stuff notebook and pull up my handy-dandy clipped blog post from The Character Therapist to find a character’s lie. All while being in the middle of nowhere.
That sounds like a cool use, too. I am using Pinterest a lot for WIPs and the inspirations and websites that apply.
I have it on my phone too, Rachel. It’s like having an exta brain. I was using but found I liked being able to find the photos in one place. I still use pintrest for a lot of things though–just not my writing research.
Diana
I played with it but it seemed too complex. I want to learn more but haven’t had much time.
Hi Angie,
Give it another try. 🙂 Start with simple, one notebook–the first one you make and one tag-blog.
Then start a new note and put ideas for blogs, title it Ideas for blogs. One step at a time.
Diana