I have been using Evernote lately for business meetings and i’m loving it. I hate taking notes. If you have an iPhone (or other supported device) you can let it do the heavy lifting for you. When the meeting starts, i capture the discussion as a “voice note”. The mic is pretty good at picking up someone speaking even across the room. Typically there is some scribbling that has been done on the whiteboard as well. After the meeting, i’ll just take a shot of the board with the camera as a “snapshot note”.
Now when i need to refer back to the meeting i can access virtually everything that took place. Love it! All the content is stored on the Evernote web service, so it syncs with your Evernote desktop client as well which means whether you are at your desktop or mobile device your data is accessible.
The only complaint i have, is that voice notes are limited to 5 minutes in length. So right now i have to quickly save every 5 minutes and start another ‘part’ to the meeting. I suspect this may be a limitation of the iPhone SDK though.
Evernote is a free download for Mac & PC and is available here.
The iPhone client can be found in the app store.
Very good examples. I just convinced my co-worker to use EN to archive important flight data to his iPhone as opposed to printing it out. Saved some trees there and the save to hard drive option now on the iPhone makes it practical.
Once you get your data from the meeting, you could also assign out tasks in Pelotonics from your audio evernotes or the image of the white board. The integration with Pelotonics now makes those notes actionable!
Thanks for sharing.
Troy Malone
Pelotonics
Interesting.. How well do these 5minute voice-notes do?
How much space in your EverNote account do they occupy?
How long does it take your iPhone to upload them? via Wifi? via 3G?
I cannot find the Voice Note option.
@Yeraze, the 5 minute voice notes are great. They occupy hardly any space on my evernote account. On 3G, it takes about 30 seconds to upload a 5 minute audio sample i would guess. Haven’t tried on wifi yet though. @Dave Watkins, click on ‘new note’ and then “voice notes” is at the bottom.
Interesting, have to try this.
Thanks for sharing.
Svein Håvard Djupvik