![]() ![]() Then you can add a title and tags your note, as usual with Evernote. The options are to save as an image, document, color document, post-it note or business card. It usually defaults to the correct type of image, which in this case would be a document. You can even save multiple pages into one note. The quickest way is to open Evernote and create a photo note with the camera on your smart phone. Whatever the impressions are, the bottom line is that you can take hand-written notes and make them searchable using Evernote. In fact, when I'm the one presenting during a meeting, I wonder if the person who is typing is paying attention to what I'm saying and taking notes, or are they just answering emails. Also, it gives others the impression that I'm paying attention to the person who is talking. When I have a simple pad and pen in a meeting, I find that I pay more attention to what is being said, and less to what I'm writing. My colleague is able to successfully type notes during a meeting and pay attention. While listening I'm also typing, reading what I am typing, editing what I'm typing, and sure enough I feel like I miss part of what was being said. ![]() However, when I'm in a meeting I find typing notes distracting. All those things make sense to me. For me, I type a lot faster than I hand-write, so if I need to get ideas down on paper quickly, typing is more efficient. My next thought was that maybe his handwriting is messy, or maybe he types faster than he hand-writes. My first thought was that he must not know about Evernote's optical character recognition capability to take handwritten notes and make them searchable. ![]() He commented to me that he prefers to type notes during the meeting because it makes it easier to search within his notes later. My colleague sitting next to me smiled at my old-school note-taking. While in a business meeting yesterday, some people were typing on their laptops while others were writing on paper. ![]()
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