Thing 9: Evernote

No more piles of notebooks

Evernote is a web application which is also available to download on to mobile devices, desktop PCs, lap tops and just about every computer. This means that you can literally use it anywhere and it will sync with on all your devices and the website.

Why use it?

* You can log on to the web version (http://www.evernote.com/) anywhere with an internet connection and you can share your notes so it is a great way of quickly creating a simple web page or putting a plan together.
* You can clip all or part of a webpage into a note by using the web clipping tool (this is easier to install at work on Firefox than on Internet Explorer).
* You can create checklists so you can tick the boxes to keep track of what you have done.
* You can tag notes so notes in different notebooks can all use the same tage and be found on a search.
* If you are using it on a mobile device you can add a location so you can see all notes made at that location by you.

Evernote is particularly useful for projects as this video shows:

Examples of Evernote uses

• Clip all or part of a webpage into a note
• Create checklists
• Tag notes
• Notebooks
• Photos
• Share!
• Ink notes
• Skitch, Audio and Speech to Text
• Send information via Twitter to Evernote
• Location

Thing 9:

• Create a note
• Tag it
• Share it

Instructions and some more information are available here.

 

Thing 10: Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking services allow you to save or bookmark your favourite web sites online and to share them with others. Using a Social bookmarking service is like saving favourites to Internet Explorer or any other web browser but with added benefits:
Some advantages of social bookmarking

• You can access your bookmarks from any computer or device with an internet connection
• You can share your bookmarks with others (although you can also keep any that you don’t want to share private!)
• You can “tag” bookmarks with relevant keywords to help you (and others) to retrieve them easily.

Services
The following services offer Social Bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo, Digg, Connotea and Stumbleupon. For a longer list see http://www.philb.com/iwantto/webpages.htm

We will use Diigo.
More about Tagging
Tagging is a facility used by many Web 2.0 services – not just bookmarks. It allows you to associate keywords or phrases with particular items (for example pictures, videos, bookmarks, catalogue records etc) in order to make them easier for you and others to retrieve. You can add as many tags as you like which makes it easy to describe items that cover many different concepts.
It is also possible to use “shared tags”. These are tags used by people who want to share items on a particular topic. To facilitate this, users tag relevant items with an agreed shared tag. For example, to share items with other people participating in the RHUL 23 things programme, add the tag “rhul23”. A search on rhul23 will then reveal all the items shared by programme members.

Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff)
Are you fed up of finding good websites and then not being able to re-find them? Do you want to share useful websites with your colleagues? Then Diigo could be for you! Diigo allows you to save and share your favourite websites. It works in a similar way to the Delicious service that some of you may be familiar with (but Delicious is up for sale and faces an uncertain future).
With Diigo you can:

• Bookmark your favourite websites and then access them from any PC that you login to.
• Tag (or index!) your favourite websites so that you can easily search for them later on.
• Highlight or annotate your chosen websites, making notes that will be there the next time you visit the site.
• Share your favourite websites with colleagues. You might want to think about sharing sites across your team.
• Search for websites and view other people’s reviews and comments.

This video explains a bit more about Diigo.

Thing 14: Create a Diigo account and download the Diigolet. Please download the step by step instructions to get started! Once your account is active, bookmark some of your favourite web sites and add some tags.

Optional extra: Share your favourite websites with a colleague.

Helen

Thing 11: Doodle

One of the most popular scheduling tools is Doodle. Doodle is free, easy to use and doesn’t require any registration (although it offers added features to registered users). For this week’s Thing, please explore Doodle and, if you can, give it a try for scheduling something.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Go to http://www.doodle.com/.
2. Click on the Schedule Event button.
3. Follow instructions for Steps 1-4 each time clicking ‘next’ to get to the next page. Decide on the dates that you are free and the time slots within each date that you are free and add them in the chart.
4. At Step 4 you need to decide whether you want to send an email to your colleagues yourself or whether you want Doodle to do this.
5. If you have chosen to send the poll out yourself then check your emails from Doodle and follow the clear instructions in them.
6. Send the link out and wait for response!

7. You can view your responses at any time by visiting the Administration link. Once everyone has

   replied, all that’s left is to choose the time that everyone can do, and let everyone know.

Exploring further
You can integrate Doodle with other online tools, including your Microsoft Outlook calendar, Google calendar or iCal; Doodle can sync meetings you set up with these calendars and update based on poll results. Doodle’s calendar integration page provides more info on how to set these up.

Doodle isn’t the only online scheduling tool, although it is one of the most popular. You might want to explore other options such as Meet-o-Matic or Scheduly.

Thing 11: Invite some other participants to meet up using the instructions above.

Helen

Cool Extra Thing: Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk (RTM) is a To-do list which you can access online or on a mobile device and link to Gmail. For the cool extra thing this week create a list and share it with other 23 Things Participants. You can also link it to Outlook but you need a plugin which requires admin rights to install.

RTM allows you to create various lists so you can separate your to-do lists. The default is personal, work, and study but you can create more in the settings section.
This is a 23 Things List showing the different weeks as individual tasks. Details of the different tasks are in the notes section and the tasks have been tagged with the initials of the people doing them so we can search for our own tasks:

You can share tasks amongst a team by adding other RTM users as contacts (they also have to add you back). Tasks that have been shared with you appear in your inbox.

It is possible to add a location to a task and these are linked to Google Maps so you can view them all on a map. You have to create the location before you can use it but once it is created you can keep using it.

To set up an account go to: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/.

Remember the Milk has a great Getting Started Guide and blog which have lots of helpful hints plus things you can do with it including using it with Twitter and Siri (for iPhone users).