Organize and Share Notes Online with Ketchup
Posted on March 15, 2010 at 7:00 am
When it comes to note taking, we all could be more organized. When given a legal pad and pen to scribble our notes, most of us draw doodles in the margins and daydream instead of paying attention to the meeting.
At the end of the meeting, we are left with lovely doodles, but no notes that are sharable with others. If we take notes on a laptop, we struggle with how best to organize the layout, which again, leaves us missing key points in a lecture or meeting. Ketchup eliminates both of these problems.
Other than fantasies of throwing rotten tomatoes at our bosses (if you didn’t have them before, you will now!), we have no clue what the big tomato on the logo has to do with note taking…
But, Ketchup is incredibly easy to use—so easy that we wonder why no one has thought of it before now. Enter a title for your meeting, the date, the location and the people who attended. If using Ketchup for school, you could use your professor’s name for the attendees.
If you are going to share your notes with colleagues and classmates, simply check the box next to Public? and Ketchup creates a custom URL for these notes. Anyone with a Web browser can now see your notes.
From here, you enter agenda items, then type your notes directly under them. What could be more organized?
Attachments, such as pictures and files, can be added to each item on your agenda, so everything is stored all in one place. Ketchup saves everything you type instantly, so if you lose internet connection, you can sign back into Ketchup and start typing again in exactly the same place.
All of your meetings, past and future, are organized by date on the right panel. This way, you can see all of your notes all at once without hunting through countless Word files in hopes of finding the right one.
Right now, Ketchup is completely free. They plan to charge for the service in the future, but promise to offer a free version for light users. You can sign up for Ketchup at UseKetchup.com.
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