

Yes, my organisational skills still suck and I have plenty of unorganised folders and tags, but as search works well in Evernote, that doesn’t really matter to me as I always quickly find anything I need. The system I used to get information in to Evernote worked well. In the first year or so of using Evernote, I stored notes, ideas and perhaps some emails that I forwarded to my Evernote account. I was hooked because things I noted on my iPhone or iPad were made instantly available on my desktop and laptop and vice-versa. After installing it, I quickly found that a desktop version was available and perhaps a couple of months later, an iPad version launched the day the original iPad launched. I don’t exactly remember how I found the app, but I suspect it was either sitting at the top of the productivity charts while I was browsing through various apps in the App Store, or perhaps I saw another blogger write about it.

I first came across Evernote when I got an iPhone 3GS. These days, I have it all stored online and can quickly search through everything to find what I need, usually within seconds. To put it bluntly, my organisation sucked and often I would have to spend hours digging through bags of paperwork to look for a passcode I filed somewhere or for a P45 ready for my tax return. Since I stumbled across Evernote a couple of years ago it has literally transformed the way I deal with my notes and paperwork.
