How Evernote helps MBA Students Remember Everything.

1. EVERNOTE
HELPING MBA STUDENTS REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Tom Yang
MBA Candidate 2014
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

2. What is Evernote?
“Your External Brain”

3. What Can Evernote Do?
Help You… Remember Everything:
• Capture text, images, and audio/video
recordings and access them in the cloud through
your smartphone, tablet and the web.
Help You… Work Smarter:
• Collaborate easily and efficiently with
classmates, colleagues and friends through
shared notebooks.

4. 5 Use Cases for MBA Students
Recruiting
Classroom
Group Projects
Clubs
MBA Treks

5. RECRUITING

6. Snap, Store and Search Business Cards
When you snap a picture of the recruiter’s business card
and upload it into Evernote, you will be able to quickly
access the image of the card by searching his or her
name.

7. Clip Important Company Research
Clip
Docs Company Research Webpages
Use the web clipper to store webpages of job postings
and company research information.

8. Speech-to-Text Transcription
You can create audio notes to remind yourself of
important next steps after each contact with a
recruiter. The best part of this feature is that the
transcribed words will become searchable in your
notes.

9. CLASSROOM

10. Audio Recording
Never miss a word the professor says by recording the
lectures.

11. Searchable Handwritten Notes
Some professors might prohibit laptops in the classroom,
but you can still have electronic notes by snapping a
picture of your handwritten notes. Evernote will make
the words searchable.

12. GROUP PROJECTS

13. Share Notebooks (Premium)
Share notebooks with your groupmates to make sure
everyone is on the same page... literally.

14. Capture Whiteboards
Snap a picture of your group’s ideation session and
share it with each other on Evernote. The words in the
image will be searchable as well.

15. CLUBS

16. Create Event Checklists
Effortlessly create checklists (with checkboxes) to help
keep your event on track.

17. Set Reminders to Team
Manage deadlines with your team by setting reminders
to your shared notebooks.

18. MBA TREK

19. Store Vital Travel Information
You can create packing lists, share itineraries with your
classmates, upload flight confirmation and scan pages
from travel books.

20. Work Offline (Premium)
Great business ideas can come anytime from anywhere…
even 30,000 feet above ground with no access to the internet.
With Evernote (Premium), you can work on your notes offline
and all of the new entries will automatically be saved and
synced when you’re back on land with internet access.

21. Questions or Comments?
Tom Yang
tyang2@chicagbooth.edu
@tomjyang
www.linkedin.com/in/tomjyang