Last month I talked about the very handy Realtor.com app for iPhone and Android. So you got this great app and you want to show you're sweetie all the cool houses you've picked out. Well, you'll have to send an email from within the app on each house you found interesting. Which is OK. But not great especially if your sweetie has been picking out houses too. Now you've both got a pile of emails and no way to organize them unless you want to kill a tree and print them ALL out.
Wouldn't it be great if you had a virtual 'notebook' of your home search instead? One centralized place for all the screen captures from from Realtor.com and other internet searches? Or maybe one that lets you add pictures you took with your cell phone camera while at an open house? Or maybe one that keeps all your text and voice notes for each house you've visited? And one that can be shared with your sweetie that let's them add stuff too? Well, you can with a bit of free software called Evernote.
This handy little app is available for your Mac, PC, iPhone and Android phone. And it SYNCS between all your devices so your notes are updated no matter what device your on. House hunting just got a whole lot easier and paperless!
Use Evernote when you're starting your house hunt to create lists of any must haves like hardwood floors, a bonus room or fireplace along with a list of would-be-nice like granite, pool, large backyard. As you search the internet clip info on the homes you like. Then you'll have them all in a central spot always available online, able to sync to multiple devices. When you're ready to go see the homes share your notebook with me, your agent. I can easily pop into Evernote to see which homes to make appointments for, and I can add a note to your notebook listing open house visits with times, addresses for homes you might like.
Once we start visiting homes you're interested in fire up your Evernote app on your phone to keep track of what you are viewing. Take snapshots, text and voice notes of each place you visit, so you won’t forget any important details.
Once you're back home from hunting you can easily review all the information on your computer. Evernote syncs your account between all the devices you use. Now you can start to narrow your decision down to THE one or make a list follow-up questions you have related to specific properties for me, your agent!
If we go under contract, we can even use Evernote to save pertinent emails and documents in one spot. Evernote will import emails out of any web mail or Outlook with a simple click. You can highlight portions of text and/or images on the computer screen and clip them. If it's a webpage an automatic link to the site is permanently recorded. You might need a premium account if you start uploading more than 40MB per month but at $5 a month, it's not going to break the bank.
How many times have you made a note and lost it? This will never happen again with Evernote. Take those post-its and put them in Evernote. When you need one, search for effortlessly. Evernote makes collecting and finding information easy.
Evernote has two types of accounts--a free version and a premium service. For most users, the free version is all you will need. The major differences between the free and premium service are upload limits (40MB per month vs. 500MB) and file synchronization (limited vs. any file type). Check out the detail comparison in the image below.
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By the way, this image of the account comparison...I clipped it using Evernote. Once I clipped it, the image was automatically stored in my Evernote account. Then I clicked over to my Evernote app on my computer, hit the Sync button and viola! There's the comparison chart I just clipped saved as a note. Now I click on the chart, click save as picture and now I have an image file which can be inserted into a blog post. Like this one! Do you remember how you used to save screenshots or images from the web? Yeah. It was a lot more work.
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