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After writing about how I was done using an iPad to read, I got several questions about how to use filing systems, Evernote, capturing quotes and highlights on kindle so that you can retrieve them easily. For leaders and pastors, Evernote is a life saver, but you have to use well or else it can become a black hole of forgotten things.

How to capture quotes and information you don’t want to lose.

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There are two resources that I would recommend looking through if you are going to use Evernote well. The first is, Evernote Essentials: The Definitive Guide for New Evernote Users by Brett Kelly and A Guide to Evernote for Pastors by Ron Edmondson.

How to use Evernote.

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Here are 3 ways to use Evernote well:

Make useful notebooks on Evernote. The first thing you need to do after creating an Evernote account is create useful notebooks. I have notebooks for every book of the Bible, topics (leadership, preaching, etc.), current event issues (technology, gay marriage, immigration, etc.) as well as a notebook for future blog post ideas and sermon series ideas. One of the mistakes many people make is not having Evernote prepared to work. You can simply throw everything into Evernote and search for it later, but I think it loses some of its power then. Your notebooks need to be sorted for you needs and centered around the topics you care about or will need in the future.
Get the Chrome Add On. Online, I use the Chrome add on for Evernote. It then sits in the top right corner of my browser and whenever I come across a blog post, talk, quote, picture or article that I want to save to a folder, I simply click the button and it goes right to my Evernote. I can choose the notebook that I want it go in and it is there forever. So, when I know I am preaching on a topic in 8 months and find a great blog article, I simply save it to that notebook for future use and move on.
Go to kindle highlights online. If you are reading books on Kindle, Evernote is your friend when it comes to highlights. Simply google Amazon kindle highlights and click on the link. You’ll follow this page and click on “your highlights.” The latest book you highlighted will be at the top. Simply click your Chrome Add on and it will then be placed in the notebook(s) of your choice. You are all set to find it whenever you need.

How to file your #kindle highlights.

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I’ve always been a huge fan of reading and so when the first iPad came out, I quickly dove in and bought it and it quickly became my go to for reading. In fact, I can’t remember now the last time I bought an actual book.

Over time though, I started to dislike reading on my iPad. For a couple reasons:

It is hard to read in the sun or outside when it is hot. Which in Arizona is a big deal.
There is too much else on my iPad to distract me.

The last one is the biggest reason I went looking for a different device to read on.

And now, I only read on a Kindle Voyage. I realize you can get a Kindle that is similar to an iPad for watching movies and using apps, which I obviously didn’t go with for reasons stated above.

It does what I dislike about my iPad (I can read it outside and I have zero distractions on it). Now, I still use my iPad for other reasons.

Reading on a kindle is incredibly helpful. It keeps me focused, I have no other apps on it and have not even set up the browser to use, so the distractions are almost non-existent.

I use my iPad for apps, sports reading (MMQB and ProFootballTalk) and for preaching.

You may ask, as several friends of mine have, why don’t you just read a book.

Some love the feel of a real book in their hand, my wife is one of them.

For me, I love the ease of moving highlights from my kindle to evernote for my filing systems and research. The idea of going through each book after I finished reading them and typing out my quotes feels like an enormous time waster.

Also, I do love how cheap kindle books can be on certain days.

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