It would be better if I could establish a habit to annually purge, but that's a fight for another day! Hope this helps.

It's not a perfect way for handling reference material, but I find it to be good enough for now.

When I want to recall something from reference, I use the search bar and search for my tags - personal development, words of wisdom, next time in, etc. When I want to keep something for reference, I will tag it, sometimes with several different tags, and then move it into the reference stack. The reference notebook has 1000+ items in it right now, and this is where I use tags. (I use some shorthand for the contexts so I can email myself something and add at the end, for example, to put it directly into the waiting for context.) The Next Actions Notebook is a 'stack' of ~15 other notebooks / contexts. I use Notebooks for: Inbox, Projects, Horizons of Focus, Reference, and Someday Maybe, and Next Actions. When students are done collecting their data (about one-two weeks), they can then share with their group and come up with a presentation for the class. If you choose to have students work in teams, they can share their work throughout the week by clicking the little three dots in the upper right corner and click “share notebook”.I use Evernote and I find it to be a pretty solid if you use both PC and Mac and different mobile devices.

Students will click on create a new notebook. They will label their notebook as “Dog” or whatever animal they have chosen to do research on. They will need two notebooks as they will be comparing and contrasting the two topics.Įxplain to students how to write using the tools and how to add links and pictures using the plus sign in the top right corner. Students can also change font, size, highlight, color code, etc. Students will create an account with Evernote using their school Gmail account. Students will watch a shortened video clip of Evernote (decide what you think is important for them to know). You can also just show them how to use Evernote using your computer displayed on the projector.

Evernote student projects