I am then able to search for and insert an image or document from my hard drive. Then I go to the drop down menu called FILE and choose ATTACH FILES. For example, I opened Peer Gen 1 Stephen - Mary Elizabeth Vollick. Then I opened a binder and began creating individual notes within that specific binder. By the way I'm nowhere near done with setting up my binders! You can see my setup for this in the image on the right. Think of a stack like the folders and sub-folders on your hard drive. Each of these individual binders goes into what Evernote calls a " stack". I am also making individual Binders for documents and photos I have for siblings of my direct ancestors. My individual Binders are set up to suit me, so I have one Binder for each direct ancestor. Then I created separate Notebooks (Binders) under this main Binder. The first thing I did was create a Notebook (I'm calling Notebooks " Binders" in this blog post) called " Genealogy Binders". Killing two birds with one stone! I am making it easier to see my saved files and am able to organize my hard drive at the same time. I can see at a glance what I've got on each ancestor and even better, I can click on the item in Evernote, choose to view it in Picassa or Preview or whatever program I want, and then I can easily move or copy it to the proper directory on my hard drive. Using Evernote I'm able to pull each file in to a binder (Notebook) that I've created.
I know it's in one of those spots and I know it will be in a sub-directory of my Genealogy directory, but where? Sure I can search for what I want but it's not always easy to find, and it's certainly time-consuming. You can see the problem I have when trying to find something specific. Some are on my desktop computer, some are on my Western Digital MyBookLive, some are on one of 3 Western Digital Passports, and some are in the Cloud - and more than one cloud! I use Dropbox, Bitcasa and Google Drive so depending on my mood that day I might put the 1851 Census for Levi Peer in any one of those spots. Some are in the Pictures folder on my laptop. Some are in the Documents folder on my laptop. I'm terrible at organizing them! My thousands of family photos, scanned documents and saved images from genealogy documents found online are a hodge-podge. I should preface this by saying that my computer files are a mess. But I'd never thought of pulling in files from my hard drive and organizing them into Notebooks. I use Evernote daily for gathering and organizing recipes, for saving receipts for items I purchase online, etc. I'm not sure I want to go totally digital for my genealogy but the idea of organizing my computer files using Evernote appealed to me. Renee mentioned that she is using Evernote to create binders in order to digitize all her paper files. Last week Renee Zamora left a comment on my blog post Spring Is Supposedly Here and My Spring Organization Fever is High.
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