EVERNOTEEVERNOTEEVERNOTEEVERNOTEHELPING MBA STUDENTS REMEMBER EVERYTHING HELPING MBA STUDENTS REMEMBER EVERYTHING HELPING MBA STUDENTS REMEMBER EVERYTHING HELPING MBA STUDENTS REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Tom YangMBA Candidate 2014

Booth School of BusinessUniversity of Chicago

What is Evernote?

“Your External Brain”

Help You… Remember Everything:

• Capture text, images, and audio/video

recordings and access them in the cloud through

your smartphone, tablet and the web.

Help You… Work Smarter:

• Collaborate easily and efficiently with

classmates, colleagues and friends through

shared notebooks.

What Can Evernote Do?

� RecruitingRecruitingRecruitingRecruiting

� ClassroomClassroomClassroomClassroom

� Group Projects Group Projects Group Projects Group Projects

� ClubsClubsClubsClubs

� MBA TreksMBA TreksMBA TreksMBA Treks

5 Use Cases for MBA Students

RECRUITINGRECRUITINGRECRUITINGRECRUITING

� When you snap a picture of the recruiter’s business card

and upload it into Evernote, you will be able to quickly

access the image of the card by searching his or her

name.

Snap, Store and Search Business Cards

� Use the web clipper to store webpages of job postings

and company research information.

Clip Important Company Research DocsClip Company Research Webpages

� You can create audio notes to remind yourself of important next steps after each contact with a recruiter. The best part of this feature is that the transcribed words will become searchable in your notes.

Speech-to-Text Transcription

CLASSROOMCLASSROOMCLASSROOMCLASSROOM

Audio Recording

� Never miss a word the professor says by recording the

lectures.

� Some professors might prohibit laptops in the classroom,

but you can still have electronic notes by snapping a

picture of your handwritten notes. Evernote will make

the words searchable.

Searchable Handwritten Notes

GROUP PROJECTSGROUP PROJECTSGROUP PROJECTSGROUP PROJECTS

Share Notebooks (Premium)

� Share notebooks with your groupmates to make sure

everyone is on the same page... literally.

� Snap a picture of your group’s ideation session and

share it with each other on Evernote. The words in the

image will be searchable as well.

Capture Whiteboards

CLUBSCLUBSCLUBSCLUBS

� Effortlessly create checklists (with checkboxes) to help

keep your event on track.

Create Event Checklists

� Manage deadlines with your team by setting reminders

to your shared notebooks.

Set Reminders to Team

MBA TREKMBA TREKMBA TREKMBA TREK

� You can create packing lists, share itineraries with your

classmates, upload flight confirmation and scan pages

from travel books.

Store Vital Travel Information

� Great business ideas can come anytime from anywhere…

even 30,000 feet above ground with no access to the internet.

With Evernote (Premium), you can work on your notes offline

and all of the new entries will automatically be saved and

synced when you’re back on land with internet access.

Work Offline (Premium)

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