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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Using Evernote for Photography Scouting [Evernote]

I am by no means a professional photographer, but I do love taking pictures.  One of my favorite things to do is to find some really cool places to go and take pictures at different times of day.  I'm always on the lookout for a cool place to stop and take pictures.  However, sometimes I simply can't stop long enough, whether due to having to get to work, or having an impatient child in the vehicle, or I just don't have my camera with me.  In those cases, I really want to be able to remember that location, but the odds of me remembering that location long enough to get home to write it down, or finding the note that I write in the vehicle, is pretty slim.

Enter Evernote.  

Evernote is one of my favorite apps on my iPhone.  I use it to find notes that I save, take pictures of business cards for future reference, recipes, and so much more.  It's kind of like a second brain for me.  In this case it serves as my personal photo scout.  What I do is to open the app on my phone, go to a notebook, in my case it's called "Pic Scouting".  From there I chose the camera icon and Evernote launches it's built-in camera function, and take a picture of whatever interesting thing I see.  Now, this is not a full featured camera, and it's not an ideal way of taking photos that you want to be very high quality.  However, what it does have going for it is that when you take a picture is that it will instantly upload the image into your chosen notebook.  The real power of this is that Evernote will apply the GPS coordinates to that photo.  

What this does for me is that a week from now when I have time to get out and go take some photos, all I have to do is to open my "Pic Scouting"notebook in Evernote, find the location that I'm most interested, or fits into the amount of time I have, pull out the address, put it in some map app on my phone and take off.

Are you using Evernote for some similar type of application?  I'd like to hear what you are doing with it.