Integrating paper and digital notes

Even if you prefer to take your notes on paper, you can still take advantage of the strengths of computers. ° • Storage Access Search 0 •Linking Sharing •Editing... (1) Scan your notes. ☐ If you have a bound notebook, you can use you can a flatbed scanner. If you have loose-leaf ✓ rip out pages Carefully, too! notes, you can use Sheet-fed scanners too. G can be faster and more Convenient, BuT... Really, it doesn't matter, just put on some music or a movie and scan your notes. It doesn't take that long. ☺ Geek note: I like using 300dpi http://colour.JPG/PNG. Why scan: Back up your files, get to do other things with them. Nov 14, 2013

1. Rename the files④Organize as needed.

Your scanner hasprobably createda whole bunch ofboringly named files.い--Resist the temptation☐ 1to spend hoursSpend some time renaming cataloguing and taggingthem and doing a littleorganization.Ex: year-month-date topicorобyear topic page-numberYou can use & folders to grouptopic.Scans by notebook or

1. Import into Evernote

This gives you moresearchability, since (abc)you can use Evernoteto look for handwrittentext inside images.Evernote defaults to thefilenames of imported files.Glad you renamed them!your notes! You couldpull it off, butyoualso burn out. MakeCouldthings more findableas you need them.Organize new notesgoing forward.5 Tweak.Asadd to andwith ideasyouuse your notes, you'llcome upfor improving things:updating or annotatingyour notes, mappingyour topics, etc.Experiment andexplore!Sacha chưa