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You just create each note as a new note in Evernote, and you organize your notes into notebooks (like folders) and/or by using tags. No more hunting around your hard drive for that draft you saved in Word, or flipping through your notebook. Note-taking: Evernote lets you put all your notes in a single program.Best of all, it’s free, unless you want the collaborative features that come with the premium version. I’m kicking off this series with a love letter to Evernote. This note-taking program is a journalist’s (or blogger’s) best friend - not to mention a tremendous asset to anybody else working in a field that involves taking lots of notes or keeping track of lots of resources.

The Beyond the Book podcast seems like a good moment to write up these tricks in a short series on social media for journalists. When I speak with journalists about social media, the conversation inevitably detours into tech support, since I can’t resist evangelizing the social media tools that can make journalists’ work easier and more effective.Īs a writer, blogger and occasional broadcast contributor, I’ve developed lots of tricks for using social media to research, write and share content. While our conversation touched on some of the challenges that content creators face in grappling with social media, I’m more often struck by the opportunities. Our conversation gave me a chance to share some of my thinking about social media and the future of content, particularly in light of the SIM Centre‘s research with partners like Paperny Films and BookRiff. Yesterday, Chris Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Centre posted an interview with me about this very subject in CCC’s Beyond the Book podcast. If social media is rewriting the rules of field after field, then publishing may be the field where its impact has been most immediate.and often, most painful.