Tuesday
Oct272009
Evernote for Lawyers and Law Practice Today
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:13PM Folks who follow me on Twitter (@erikmazzone) know that I love Evernote. They also know I drink too much coffee and hate Notre Dame and the Red Sox.
But I digress.
If you are curious about Evernote - what it is and how you might use it - I wrote an article in the October issue of Law Practice Today that is a short primer on Evernote. Check it out and see if you can use Evernote in your office or at home.
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Reader Comments (3)
I also dislike Notre Dame and hate the Red Sox so I thought I'd take you up on your other opinion and check out Evernote. I read your full article and signed up.
Granted I've only been using it for about 10-15 minutes (and I did read the tutorial), it doesn't seem to do anything that I can't do in my Google Calender? Yes I guess I can't scan directly into Evernote but I use my DMS for that. And I recognize that there are some features that I guess don't apply to me...Maybe I should give it some more time....
Wow just re-read my comment and it contains some grammatical errors. Oops! I guess I was hurrying a bit to much. What I meant to say is that I can scan directly to Evernote but that's what I use my DMS for. Furthermore, I recognize that there are many functions that I cannot do in Gcal but I cannot see myself using those...Maybe I should give it some more time...
Hey Danny, thanks for stopping by and for the comments.
I don't see Evernote as a replacement for DMS, though for a solo practitioner, I can see how it could be, but an adjunct. There are a couple of things Evernote does nicely that DMS does not (in my opinion, anyway, do as well):
First, the web clipper application makes it really easy to grab entire web pages or portions of web pages and pop them in into Evernote without just a click or two.
It also syncs across multiple machines (pro version only perhaps?) including across Mac/PC platforms and backs up a copy of everything to the cloud, so it doubles as a backup service for the stuff in Evernote.
That all said, I would still use a DMS for my critical work docs and use Evernote for personal and reference materials.
Give it a bit more time and see what you think.