I’ve decided to press Evernote into service as a CRM application, to keep track of contacts that I make networking and marketing my practice management assistance program.  Although it is early going using Evernote in this capacity, I am pretty pumped about it so far.

I can input data in a bunch of different ways, tag each “note” in countless ways and search and sort the data very easily.  I don’t bother actually keeping the contact info in there as I’m more or less locked into using Outlook and a Blackberry for that, but I use Evernote to keep all the emails, notes, and PDF documents I need about each contact.  I create one “summary” note for each contact so I can easily find the most recent activity, and then each additional item is a note, tagged by contact.

You can also capture and upload screenshots to Evernote using Evernote's Windows system tray application or the Mac OS X menu bar app. On a Mac, you can even create a new note from your iSight webcam, and—naturally—you can upload any photo you take with your digital camera.

If you receive an email you want to add to your Evernote notebook for later, you can forward it to your private Evernote email address, which turns any email it receives into a new note. (You can find your private Evernote address in the Settings section of the web site.)

• DF Store: We all know how prevalant pdf’s have become - just drag & drop or even email your pdf’s into Evernote & voila you’ve got them available whenever you need them.
• Serial & Pins. Use Evernote to store serial numbers, login details, pins & codes whether for software or to get into your house!
• Receipts. Wherever you are (again particularly useful if you have iphone) take a photo of any/every receipt and have it all stored & searchable on your evernote.
• Code Snippet Library: Coder? Use evernote as a store for all those snippets of code that you need to revisit.
• Takeaway & Delivery menus! Yep, scan or even just photograph your menus & never lose them again. Just think, you can search for whatever you’re in the mood for! :]
• Instant Message Store: Ever need a record of a previous instant message conversation - copy & paste it into evernote & it’s there whenver you need it.
• Inspiration: I use Evernote more for this than anything. I’m an inspiration fanatic - particular with design (logos & websites in particular). When online & I come across a site, logo or maybe just part of a site I like - you can just use Evernotes to capture that area or page. Should you want to capture the entire webpage (which you would normally have to scroll down for), I recommend using a firefox screenshot tool like screengrab! which lets you quickly save the entire page as an image and you can then insert that image file from your desktop into evernote. Works a charm and particularly fast on the mac.
  Of course, if you find inspiration on the road - take a photo of it or use your iphone to and you’ve got it there to come back to when you need it.
• Recipes: Find an recipe you like in a book, online or wherever - capture it using the many options available to you. The next time someone asks you the recipe for the wonderful dish you just made, or maybe you’re stuck for options while at a friends place - guess who has the perfect recipe to hand? :]
• Paper notes: Find you’d much rather stick to handwritten notes? Then just keep them to hand at the end o...