

Having a mixture of links, files, little notes etc. It saves me having multiple locations of possible bookmarks, keeping everything in one place. It means I can bookmark things on-the-go on my smartphone, putting articles in a sensible Notebooks which are then available on all of my bigger devices. I’ve found it really useful to have a universal app between my Apple and Windows devices that I can use seamlessly.

The beauty for me is that the Notebooks are accessible across multiple devices, regardless of their operating system (by using either the app or the Evernote website). In brief, Evernote is a piece of online notebooking software that allows you to store pretty much anything (text, links, files) in designated Notebooks. I gave a small departmental CPD session during my PGCE on using Evernote as a teacher, explaining how I keep things organised and I thought it would be useful to share the idea further. I’m a compulsive hoarder of things, so without some organisational system, I would quickly drown under a mountain of random links and documents.

The internet, and in particular Twitter, is jam-packed with useful resources, blog posts and articles that can inspire your future work, but keeping it all organised can be a real pain. There's no word yet on the feature making it to other platforms just yet, but Evernote does say that it's "available first" for Mac, so we'd presume others can expect it eventually.The summer holidays have been a great chance for me to catch up on reading and think of new ideas for my planning for next year. The only catch is that you'll need to be a Premium Evernote user to take advantage of the feature, although Evernote is offering a 30-day free trial in the hope that you'll pay up. Clicking the Presentation Mode button will naturally switch things to a full-screen mode, and give you the ability to move ahead in your presentation by tapping the spacebar another new feature will let you use your mouse or trackpad as a laser pointer of sorts, with your cursor movement displayed as a glowing blue light.

An all-new Presentation Mode will now let you share your notes with others and possibly eliminate the need to jump into Keynote or PowerPoint. It's not just iOS and BlackBerry 10 users getting new Evernote apps this week the company has now also released an updated version of its Mac app with one fairly big new feature.
