So Evernote is great, and one of its main advantages was that you could click the microphone icon on the mobile app, and it would record speech-to-text voice notes–it only worked on the Android app, not the iOS (sorry, hipsters), though. I also found Catherine Pope’s Managing Your Research With Evernote for Windows very helpful (don’t worry, Apple hipsters users, there’s one for Mac, too).
There are a number of ways Evernote can be harnessed as an uber-tool for research Raul Pacheco-Vega has generously shared his resources on Evernote for Academics ( also described here), and he is a total Evernote Ninja. I collect PDFs of articles, and use a cam-scanner app on my mobile devices that saves to PDF, so this feature is a GAME-CHANGER. With the premium version of Evernote ($5.99/month), you can even search the text of PDFs or any OCR-enabled format as well. Within the notebooks, by utilizing a good tagging system (developed through trial and error, and full of idiosyncrasies), I can even search for particular sources and phrases. Whether I’m looking at primary or secondary sources, I can create separate notebooks for each source, or corresponding to a particular chapter in the manuscript(s). Like many academics, I’ve embraced Evernote as a digital tool that offers me the best framework for taking, organizing, and archiving my research notes. And while the research process for the three contains some overlap, it’s not a whole lot I’ve learned that I need to really up my organization game if I want to manage these projects. Because I am batshit crazy embracing scholarly productivity, I’m currently working on an article and two book manuscripts. Feel the 256 MB of pure POWERįast-forward fifteen years, and I recently found myself in the same sort of techno-fantasy land.
So speech-to-text really seemed like a pipe dream, given that every time one of my cats jostled the loose phone jack, I’d get booted offline.
If this sounds somewhat quaint, I should note that I wrote every last one of those 440 pages on a first-generation iMac (BLUEBERRY!) using WordPerfect 8 for Macintosh, and taking breaks on AOL dial-up internet. When I was researching and writing my dissertation, I would fantasize about some magic technology that would transcribe my speech into text, complete with Chicago-style formatting, and I could dictate my research notes and chapter drafts while swinging in a hammock and sipping umbrella drinks.
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