{"id":3596,"date":"2014-11-30T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T05:44:56","slug":"using-evernote-sunday-morning-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/features\/using-evernote-sunday-morning-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Evernote On A Sunday Morning For Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m a bit of an Evernote fanboy. I\u2019ll freely admit that. But every now and again, someone will ask me how I use Evernote on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of a tough question for me, because it\u2019s a bit like asking someone how they use a computer. “I dunno, I do a bunch of different stuff, and it\u2019s good\u2026?\u201d I never have any good examples to draw on.<\/p>\n
But this morning, I started the hunt for some new artwork to hang in my apartment, and it gave me the perfect chance to write up my goings-on in Evernote. This is partly for you, dear reader, but it\u2019s also partly for me. Next time I get asked that question, I\u2019m pointing them straight to this post.<\/p>\n
It started on my Windows PC this morning. I set up a new blank notebook, which I creatively called \u2018Art for the apartment.\u2019<\/p>\n
Very original.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m acutely aware that I have a very beginner\u2019s level knowledge of art. I don\u2019t really know what artists I like (Dali? Banksy? Anyone who does a stern-looking portrait of French royalty?), where to buy stuff from, or even if I should get prints vs. knockoffs vs. originals. Maybe a bit of everything! It\u2019s a total blank slate at this moment.<\/p>\n
I decide to begin with artists. So I\u2019m looking for artists that I already like, but also stuff that\u2019s similar by artists I am not aware of.<\/p>\n
I did some googling for art sites. I have to say, Google sucks for this. It took me quite a while to find a site that provided a bank of artworks and artists, listed by genre and work.<\/p>\n
My first successful port of call for this was Artsy<\/a>, where I signed up for an account.<\/p>\n Once I found Artsy, I didn\u2019t want to lose it. So I saved it using the Web Clipper to my newly-created notebook.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, where\u2019s a good place to go to get recommendations for art, that\u2019s not the internet? Here\u2019s an idea I had while browsing Artsy — Lifeline stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n I shit you not. They have lots and lots of art books for cheap.<\/p>\n Also, art magazines. They sell old magazines with artist profiles –chock full of\u00a0ideas– for next to nothing. Perfect.<\/p>\n So I jumped on my bike and rode down to the local Lifeline store. They weren\u2019t open yet, so I grabbed a coffee and waited for 10am. Curse you, elderly volunteer ladies and your late starts! (just kidding, you\u2019re great)<\/p>\n While I was waiting, I used Evernote on my phone to get back to Artsy. I kept browsing through — the suggestions that come up in that site are pretty impressive!<\/p>\n I tweeted out: \u201chey this artsy.net site is pretty good!”<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamescroft\/status\/538843569994223616<\/p>\n Friend of the site Pete Dillon<\/a> replied to me with a recommendation.<\/p>\n He\u2019s a smart dude, so I saved that tweet into my notebook, using the share sheet in iOS, straight from Tweetbot.<\/p>\n The Lifeline store opened at 10am. I checked in there with Swarm<\/a>. Incidentally, I have an IFTTT<\/a> recipe that takes my Foursquare\/Swarm check-ins, and turns them into events in my calendar \u2014 this is important in a sec.<\/p>\n I found a couple good suggestions in some art books (The Expressionists by Wolf-Dieter Dube, and Surrealist Art by Sarane Alexandrian), so I took a couple of photos.<\/p>\n I created a new note in my \u2018Art for the apartment\u2019 notebook, and added both of those pics to it.<\/p>\n I annotated these images in the Evernote app to highlight the name, so I could find them again later. I have heard that name before \u2014Kandinsky\u2014 so I\u2019ll spend some time later looking up his other works.<\/p>\n Oh, and the note\u2019s title: –at Lifeline (4sq.com\/[redacted]) 30\/11\/2014– was already created for me, because if you\u2019ve got events in your calendar, it will auto-populate the event\u2019s title as your note\u2019s title. Handy.<\/p>\n I also found a few old copies of Yen Magazine<\/em>, and a copy of Fallen<\/em> magazine. Not sure what I\u2019ll find in them, but they were only $3.50 each.<\/p>\n I got home, pulled out the books I bought (3 books and 3 magazines for $45, thanks Lifeline!) and piled them up on my table, then fired up the Macbook Pro. All the notes I already made are there, ‘cos Evernote syncs everything. Cool.<\/p>\n