Evernote provides you with a custom email address when you sign up for an account (either free or paid). You can find your Evernote email address in the Settings section of your account information online. It is not the easiest email address to remember, but once you save it in your address book or in Outlook it should be easy to use. Any emails (with or without attachments) that I want to add to my notebooks simply get forwarded to this unique Evernote email address. Within minutes they are available in my account. This works great for storing PDFs that have been mailed to you or if you have a Premium account you can send any type of file into your account for storage.

Use the @ and # symbols to place emailed notes exactly where you want them.

One thing many people don’t know is that you have a great deal of control over where in your Evernote notebook your email lands. Here is how:

1. In the subject line of the email type the title of the note as you want it to appear in Evernote.
2. After the name, type the name of the notebook where you want the email information filed with an @ symbol in front of it (i.e. @inbox, @mainnotebook, etc…) If you specify a notebook name that is not in your account the note will be placed in your default notebook.
3. You can also add tags into the subject line by adding the # symbol in front of the tag (i.e., #travel, #itinerary). I have note found a way to add more than one tag per email as of yet.

Give this a try and you will save yourself the need to refile notes after you have added them to Evernote.

What is MinistryGeek This Week all about?
This podcast will be about Technology in Ministry (big surprise huh?). We will post a new episode each week on Wednesday mornings and we we deal with a number of different topics related to using technology in various aspects on ministry. In some ways this new podcast will be an extension of this blog and what I teach in my Ministry Technologies course at the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver. Dale, Caleb, and I all love the Lord and we love finding new ways to use technology to spread the message of the Gospel and build up the body of the church. We hope you will join us.

Listen or download our first episode here. In the next few days this should be available through iTunes on your computer and we hope you will subscribe to it and listen when you can.

Let us know what’s on your mind
If you would like to comment on the show, or ask us a question, email it to MinistryGeek@edge.net. We look forward to hearing from you.

The free app comes with access to 31 books:

1. Morning and Evening
2. Necessity of Prayer
3. Pilgrim’s Progress
4. Power Through Prayer
5. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield
6. Sermons on Several Occassions
7. St. Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen
8. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9. Commentary Critical & Explanatory on Whole Bible (JFB)
10. Diving For Pearls in God’s Treasure Chest
11. Easton’s Bible Dictionary
12. Imitation of Christ
13. In His Steps
14. Training of the Twelve
15. Why Four Gospels?
16. Systematic Theology (Strong)
17. New Nave’s Topical Bible
18. Strong’s Concise Dictionary of the Words of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Testament
19. An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin
20. Dictionary of the Vulgate New Testament
21. Holbein’s Bible Woodcuts
22. The Summarized Bible: Complete Summary of the Old Testament
23. The Summarized Bible: Complete Summary of the New Testament
24. Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope
25. The New Testament in Greek (Westcott and Hort)
26. KJV Cambridge Paragraph English-Greek Reverse Interlinear
27. KJV Cambridge Paragraph English-Hebrew Reverse Interlinear
28. Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology
29. Lexham English Bible / New Testament
30. LEB English-Greek Reverse Interlinear
31. LEB English-Hebrew Reverse Interlinear

Check out the video below to get a sense of what it can do:

This really should be on your iPhone or iPod if you like to study the Bible.

Once the articles are in your account, Instapaper’s power really kicks in. You can read these articles online later, read them on your iPhone, download them as PDF files, or even download them to your Kindle if you have one. As an iPhone user, now I can read these articles whenever I have free time. The iPhone app (free or Pro version $4.99) presents the text of the article in a very readable style even on a small screen. The Pro version offers some great features including Dark Mode for low light situations (the screen presents the text as white of black), tilt scrolling (simply tilt your iPhone and the text scrolls as you read), folders, star articles you’d recommend and it even saves your position in the document so you can pick up right where you left off later. Now, I can catch up on my reading while standing in line at the bank, while eating my lunch (without getting food all over my laptop keyboard) or any other time I have a few free minutes.

Check out the Instapaper video below and start reading those articles you want to read, when you have time to read them.

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A second reason that my posts have not been flowing freely lately is that I find the Blogger editor lacking. It does everything fine, but it just isn’t convenient (can you say spoiled user here). For this post I am using a new desktop blog editor, Blogo. I am just using this tool for the first time, but I must say it is very easy to get up and running. I have been using MarsEdit, which I like overall, but I have a very hard time with graphics uploading to my posts with it. There seems to be a problem with Blogger and MarsEdit concerning graphics that I cannot seem to fix. Blogo seems to have no such issues. One feature that I really like about Blogo is the preview of my post. When you select preview it shows you how the post will look within your blog. It grabs a template from your blog and shows you EXACTLY how your post will look once posted. Other packages may do that, but MarEdit didn’t.

The graphic of the Blogo logo was captured with Skitch. I have to say that I love this tool. Skitch is a screen grab tool, but I must say it is the easiest one I have used. One of the features in Skitch that I am really drawn to is the ability to scale you screen grab before you save it. After you capture the section of the screen that you want to capture you simple drag the size of the window to get the graphic to the desired size. The dimensions of the graphic are listed in the bottom corner of the window and are updated dynamically while you drag the window size. This makes it very easy to get the graphic the size you want right from the get go. Skitch also comes with a web account to store your captures online for easy retrieval. I LOVE THIS APP! It is in beta right now and so the price is right….FREE! I must say however, I have tried to use a number of screen grab programs and Skitch beats them all for ease of use and working the way I need it to.

Sadly, both Blogo and Skitch are for MAC only, so PC users are out of luck. Both of these programs are excellent additions for anyone blogging from a MAC. I am a much happier blogger using them!