In the image below, the left hand side shows all of the Notebooks in my ‘Teaching’ Notebook Stack (I also have other Notebook Stacks for my PGCE work, my previous Physics research and for other things that I need to keep organised in my life). all in one place was a revolution to me when I started using it during my PhD.Įvernote has a simple hierarchical structure of Notes, Notebooks and Notebook Stacks. Having a mixture of links, files, little notes etc.

It saves me having multiple locations of possible bookmarks, keeping everything in one place. It means I can bookmark things on-the-go on my smartphone, putting articles in a sensible Notebooks which are then available on all of my bigger devices. I’ve found it really useful to have a universal app between my Apple and Windows devices that I can use seamlessly.

The beauty for me is that the Notebooks are accessible across multiple devices, regardless of their operating system (by using either the app or the Evernote website). In brief, Evernote is a piece of online notebooking software that allows you to store pretty much anything (text, links, files) in designated Notebooks. I gave a small departmental CPD session during my PGCE on using Evernote as a teacher, explaining how I keep things organised and I thought it would be useful to share the idea further. I’m a compulsive hoarder of things, so without some organisational system, I would quickly drown under a mountain of random links and documents. The internet, and in particular Twitter, is jam-packed with useful resources, blog posts and articles that can inspire your future work, but keeping it all organised can be a real pain. The summer holidays have been a great chance for me to catch up on reading and think of new ideas for my planning for next year.

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