How to create a virtual directory home library to Evernote
Books / / December 19, 2019
Paperless optimization and virtual catalogs - the first step in the "digitization" of your home. Jamie Rubin offers own way creation of a digital library on the basis of the usual collection of paper books.
It must be said that the house had accumulated more than 1.1 thousand books that do not always allow him to clearly say what the book where he was and if he did not give her friends. At some point, he decided that would be nice to create a digital catalog of all "good book", using for this purpose Evernote.
Abandon paper books and move them to the electronic version of Jamie did not want: many books and stayed with him since the days of the older schools, and some books were generally quite rare editions, which are currently in second-hand stores are not always find. So he decided to make an electronic data base of the booksWhere to bring all these books with a short handle on them and detailed tracking of each book (to the point, what the book stands on a shelf). In Evernote, as you know, the ability to work with texts and pictures in notebooks is more than enough, because Jamie went to work. His "recipe" - a
book catalog on the basis of photographs:The whole process is quite simple and consists of several stages:
First, take pictures of each shelf with books in high resolution (the higher the resolution of the photograph - the better).
For each photograph to create a separate note in a notebook Evernote.
Each note calls the number shelves and cabinet, enumerate it all standing on a shelf of books. Author techniques moved clockwise in his home library, where he had several cabinets with books. Because he has notes have names like "Bookcase 2, 4 shelf," etc.
All notes with the contents of the shelves keep in a notebook called "Books" in the folder with personal notebooks.
Turn sync with Evernote Evernote server and allows data to fill. That's what we should have in the end:
If you want to find a specific book, you simply type in your search query - and let Evernote is looking for. The author cites a simple example: looking for the book "Rollback" author Robert J. Sawyer. Introduce "Rollback" in the search field, that's what we get:
Seeing the shelf and any books on it are, we can just go for it and take the book off the shelf of interest.
But what if, for some reason, the location of the books change? For those who constantly rearranges the books on various shelves or often satisfied "global audit" in his library of books cataloging this technique may not be appropriate. However, if you have on the shelf, new books, you can always edit the memo for a particular shelf, add a new book to the list and update the photographs - the case a couple of minutes.
In addition to the shelves and cabinets, you can attach separate notes and photographs for individual securities and rare books, if any, in your home collections. Looks in practice is something like this (here, too, used notebooks and Evernote notes):
Created by Jamie Rubin technique allows to simply and clearly create your own virtual directory for the offline home library.
In addition to this experiment, the author of many samples of different methods for creating a paperless environment at home and work in your project Going Paperless; and the results of some of their sample spreads in Pinterest.
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