I know what you are thinking – do you need to use special Evernote-branded Post-Its?įirst I tried a “normal” yellow sticky note. If the text looks a little sketchy, that is due to my pen running low on ink and not due to Evernote’s app.

I decided to try it with a blue ball-point on an “Electric Blue” Post-It. Whenever I have seen the Evernote Post-It Notes online, the examples have always been written/drawn with big chunky black marker. Buried in the settings of the Evernote mobile app, you can have Evernote take actions based on the color of the Post-It.įor each color, you can have the note automatically go to a certain notebook, add a certain tag, and/or create a reminder.įor example, in this screenshot I had all four colors set to go to a Sketches notebook, and for Limeade (aka “green”) notes I asked it to tag it with Project4. This is where the special Evernote Post-It colors come in. That’s interesting and all, but many apps will auto-detect the edges of a document and clean up the image. The Evernote app will recognize the sticky note, clean up the image, and create a nice looking note in Evernote for you. You use the Evernote app, put it in Post-It mode, and take the picture. They have a special Post-It camera mode that is specially designed to recognize Post-It notes. The magic happens in the Evernote mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. In fact, they are “Electric Blue”, “Neon Pink”, “Limeade”, and “Electric Yellow”. You might call them blue, pink, green, and yellow, but you would be wrong. The key is the four colors that the notes come in. You use them like you would any sticky note (I assume you know how to do that). More on that below.Īs far as the products themselves go, there is nothing too different about them.

I also decided to test it with non-Evernote sticky notes. I decided to buy the 4-pack because it comes with three months of Evernote Premium. I decided it is time to try them out for myself, so I ordered a pack on Amazon (they are a bit cheaper there). I was happily living my life ignoring these products, until I attended a few conferences and talked to people who use them all the time and they all seemed to really like them. What is so wrong with normal Post-It notes that there needs to be a special Evernote version? Post-It notes? Really? I am not a sticky note person myself, but I know many people are. I have to admit that when Evernote announced their partnership with 3M and released Evernote-branded Post-It notes, I thought it was more than a little goofy.

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