A Look At The Local DC Tech Scene and Other Technology and Social Media Musings

Well, we obviously all know what Twitter is … and some of you may or may not know what Evernote is.  If you don’t the you should definitely head over and check it out.  It is an awesome organization, backup, creativity, etc tool that has tons of possibilities to be a great tool for many of your needs.

I don’t know about you but while perusing Twitter, mostly on the iPhone, I often see links that people have shared and I want to save them for later.  The only real good solution was to “Star” the tweet and check it out later … if I remembered, which I usually did not.  So I was extremely happy when I started testing out TweetDeck on the iPhone and I saw one of the features was to “email tweet”.  I thought how cool, now when I see a link or an interesting tweet that I want to keep around for archiving review later I can just email it to myself. And for a bit that was pretty cool.

But in all honesty sometimes things that fall off the first page of my gmail page might as well fall off the face of the earth.  Sure they are “archived” but I would really need to go search for them.  So then it dawned on me, I had another tool that was perfect t capture and snyc these tweets that I wanted to save, that tool is Evernote.

According to the Evernote page:

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

I use Evernote for a lot of different things.  I scan my kids art into Evernote, I keep business card images, and so on.  Items can be tagged and placed into folders as you see fit.  So I thought, what a great combination, I can now simply email the tweets to my Evernote email address and it is there for me to organize and most importantly have in an organzied manner for future use or review.

Now once in Evernote, it can be tagged and organized in a notebook of your choice.  Best of all, Evernote syncs everything you put in it between your desktop and your Evernote account in the cloud, along with any other computers you intsall the Evernote client on.  Just the other day Evernote released an update that allows you to share a Notebook with others.  Now you can have a repositiory where a group can add interesting tweets to make the experience even better.

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