Madness Monday - it's sorting time

Madness Monday - it's sorting time. My good intentions of a Genealogy Do-Over are fading fast. Somehow I have thought - yes, I'll do that tomorrow - you know how that is? Well, today is the deadline - no more procrastination.

My first Do-Over is to organise Evernote. I love Evernote. I am a Premium user of Evernote and love every part of it - BUT - I have been very lazy recently and sent clips to my Inbox - to deal with later on - and later on.

So today is sorting time as I said. This is what I will be doing today:

1. Reviewing my notebooks - do I have too many?
2. Reviewing my tags - are they the right tags?
3. Merging notes if necessary??
4. Sorting the notes - yes please - even though Evernote has spectacular searching I want it to be more accurate.
5. Deleting unnecessary notes.
6. Reading the To Read Notebook - yes I have a To Read Notebook - this is for those interesting things I find and want to read later - well I will review this.
7. Enjoy a cup of tea and relax - praising myself for a job well done. Well, maybe a few cups of tea!

This is a screenshot of my Evernote - note the note showing from MakeUseOf which says - How to Keep Your Digital Life Organised in the New Year - well here goes - stay tuned and wish me luck.

Spring 2014

September in Brisbane. Clear blue sky and westerly winds. Warm weather and a feeling in the air of new opportunities to come. An opportunity to clean out my family history folders, organise the research and recycle some of the paper. i don't know about you but paper seems to breed almost overnight in my office at home.

Lately I have been using Evernote for my family history - and everything else - instead of Microsoft OneNote. I had been using OneNote for a couple of years but am not a convert to Evernote. For example I went to  SLQ yesterday and took the film numbers I wanted to view in the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) in Evernote on my smartphone. The librarian at SLQ was most interested - I  believe she is going to try it our for herself.