A good app will be under constant development. Make sure you check this out before buying an app. See when the last update was.

Take a moment and see what the developers updated in the app.

It seems like a great feature to auto update your apps but I want you to stop for a moment and read what was updated. It may be minor bug fixes or a complete overhaul. You don’t want the user interface to be completely redesigned and then struggle to use the app especially in front of a client.

Before I update my app I scan through them and read what’s changed. Sometimes I will only update a few apps at a time to try new features out right away.

At the end of my weekly review I open the app store on my iPad/iPhone and review the app that can be updated. Most of the time it’s only a few apps and it’s to review the changes.

This is a quick way to find out what new features there are in the app.
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I’ve mentioned before how I strive to go all digital. One of the best tools I’ve found besides Evernote is Microsoft OneDrive. I store all my files in OneDrive and use Word Online or Excel Online to edit and create documents.

I can create and edit documents anywhere on any device! 

I want to be all digital. It seems like it would be so nice to have all your documents accessible from anywhere, ah what a dream! But I just can’t get away from taking notes with a pen and paper. Oh and there’s that drawing thing that I do. Pen and paper just feels right to me.

You can integrate written notes into a all digital format you just need the right app. 

I’ve tried a bunch of stylus’s. From inexpensive rubber tipped ones to the Evernote Jot Script. They all work really well but I never found a great stylus/app como that I felt comfortable enough to use to replace my notebook. Maybe someday I should just say for the next 2 weeks I’m going to only take digital notes on my iPad. Maybe…

I want to have all my notes to be digital. In the past I would save them up into a big pile and scan them into Evernote.

What I do now is take a photo from inside the Evernote app. The app will title the note and give it a date. You can also tag and crop the photo. It works really well. The app will also give a location for the note.

Here’s some great reasons to do this: 

• Available 24/7– Your notes are instantly available wherever you are. Instead of them still being in your notebook or worse in a pile of to be scanned.

• Searchable – Evernote will scan your notes and make them searchable even the handwritten notes.
• Paper is just a medium – The paper notes don’t really mean much after you scan them. I usually toss em. Any what’s great about this is if I don’t have my normal notebook anything piece of paper will do. You can use this for whiteboards also.

It’s so simple to use. I take my notes on my action method paper then after the meeting I snap a picture of them with my phone using Scanble and send them right to Evernote. When I do I capture a time and date stamp and a location.

I like freeing my mind of things. Evernote helps me to do that. This is a simple but really nice way to help me to streamline my filing. Give it a try it’s so simple to do.
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