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Clever Uses for Evernote

Once you're using Evernote regularly, the possibilities are endless. As a student, you could use Evernote for everything from snapping a quick picture of a handout to taking a photo of the phone number on your hand before it smears off (with any luck, the name and number will be searchable). I'm no longer a student, but I use Evernote to make my life easier every day—whether I'm using it to take notes or tackle other chores. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite ways to use Evernote:

• Grocery Shopping: If I find a recipe online that I want to make, I'll clip the recipe and ingredients with Evernote. When I'm at the store, I fire up Evernote on my iPhone and browse to the recipes tag. Now I've got my grocery list at my fingertips while I'm walking up and down the aisles.
• Read it later bookmarks: I almost never read things I've bookmarked when I'm sitting in front of my computer. After all, if I were going to read it there, I would have read it the first time around instead of blindly bookmarking it. With Evernote, I can access any of my bookmarked pages at any time—particularly when I'm waiting around somewhere with my iPhone in my pocket—and I can catch up on the reading I would never have gotten around to otherwise.
• Personal library: While I'd hardly call this a novel use of Evernote, it remains one of the most excellent uses of the app. Since I started using it, I've been trying to get into the habit of clipping info any time I see information I want to remember. It's a great way to build up a personal knowledge database that you can quickly search through any time you need answers and don't have them on the tip of your tongue. The whole point of Evernote is to expand your brain, after all.

You can also use Evernote as a code snippet library or receipt/serial number bucket, and we've already shown you how to get voice-to-text notes from Jott into Evernote, but if you've got a favorite use of your own, let's hear more about it in the comments. Adam Pash is a senior editor for Lifehacker whose brain capacity has doubled since his love affair with Evernote began. His special feature Hack Attack appears every Tuesday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Hack Attack RSS feed to get new installments in your newsreader.
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