Evernote, MM8 and a Cellphone ... Idea Processor+

I am contemplating a trip and on a long run today visualized a flow to solve a problem I had been thinking over for a very long time ... when on a trip or thinking about a problem ... you never have a way to take all kinds of inputs, whiteboards, tablets, files, handouts, napkins, sticky notes, etc etc and create a cohesive thought process or to enable a quick thumb through of relevant information.  I have gotten close with using a tablet PC as it allows me to write on all sorts of scanned or printed objects and also to take contemporaneous notes during meetings and brain dumps .. all well and good, but it required scanning, printing, and asst files ...

Here is the thought ... Evernote has a neat feature that allows you to take a photo (Cellphone with at least 2mp resolution) and email the photo right into your Evernote database ... once there, you can tag, annotate and flesh out the concept ... when it is time to review or compile the thoughts, you can get them up by filtering the tags or key works  ( it also indexes the image, so things captured on the photo are searchable) ... I then print the needed notes to pdf file on the computer ... you can use pdf Annotator from Grahl Software to then further markup the file if you have a tablet PC ..

You then assemble each page into one thought processing document that includes all notes, whiteboards, napkins, (you get the point) ... I use pdf Tools  to merge all of the notes into a single file  that will create your document.  Voila, you have all your valuable thoughts in one place in one document.  Now the final step ... create a mindmap in MM8 or any other solution that allows you to link files to your map ... here is a shot of a Thought Base that you can play with ... the screens shot shows how useful the new browser function is in MM8 especially when you put a process together using this method ...

The only limitation to what can be done is your imagination ... works great and will keep EVERYTHING in one "notebook" that you can call up at any time ... don't forget that you can annotate your annotations as the ideas progress ... thought processing done efficiently ...