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Uses for Evernote Screenshot screen clipping

By Michael Fletcher On June 19, 2010 · 11 Comments

Evernote Screen clipping or Screen shots has become my favourite favourite Evernote Feature. The ability to take a screenshot has long been a staple of the business world. As distrustful as the world is there’s always need to prove what we’ve been up too. Problem is when I send a screenshot of the project I’m currently working on I very rarely want to send my whole screen. I don’t need the whole world knowing what emails I’ve recieved or what programs I have open.

Before I go on if you’re extra observant you’ll see that all my blog posts are now available for PDF download. (There is a link at the end of each post) In case you’re one of those odd people who like hard copies of things or you’d like to save them in Evernote without having to clip a screenshot. Or having it look like plain text in evernote.

The way it was

Now prior to Evernote gtting a business friendly Screen shot was a multi-step process that just slowed down the process of cranking through the email inbox. Traditionally it would go something like this:

hit the Prt-Scr button
Ctrl-V in your *image editor
Crop your image
Save as an image
Attach

* I know most of the nice email editors have an image editor for your screen shots and I know the editing can be done in the email editor. The point is it still needs to be done and a lot of people use Gmail so there.

While the Evernote Pc application is running hitting the print screen key will bring up a little undocked window and some crawling ants to be manipulated. Move the ants around until you’ve selected the area of the screen you want to clip and Hey presto you’re done. You now have a clipped screenshot of only the area of the screen you chose.

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How to use Evernote and GTD for setting and achieving goals and objectives

By Michael Fletcher On January 8, 2010 · 33 Comments

If you’ve been using Evernote for awhile, you’ll most probably know all about Evernote’s great benefits and ease of capture. With the new year upon us though, we have started setting goals and objectives which we’d, with a bit of luck, like to achieve this year. do it.