![]() ![]() I’ve now used Evernote to collate monitoring information in both an INGO and an academic research institute – and it has worked brilliantly in both settings. The other big advantage of premium is that multiple users can all contribute to the same notebook (even if the individuals themselves are using the free version). ![]() It’s a web-based system, but upgrading to the premium version lets you use it offline. I’ve always been sceptical about using technical fixes for this type of problem, but when Duncan Green suggested setting up an ‘impact diary’ on Evernote, I thought it was worth a try.įor those who haven’t used it, Evernote is an extremely flexible notebook app that enables you to collect and tag text, documents, pictures, clippings of web pages- and pretty much any other digital content- as a series of notes. We tried on numerous occasions to improve the way we documented progress, but always found the word or excel documents we set up would contain a flurry of entries for the first few months, only to be cast adrift in the depths of our shared drive when things really started to get interesting. But over the course of a project lasting a couple of years, trying to remember exactly what happened was always a challenge. Quite often, the most revealing elements of evaluation workshops were anecdotal – the unexpected enthusiasm of a particular civil servant to a new policy briefing, which led to influencing opportunities we’d never planned for. The problem was digging out the myriad of different types of evidence to support a write up of the analysis. I really enjoyed sitting down with the team to try and unpick what had happened and why. It wasn’t the actual evaluation that was the issue. A few years ago, I’d freely admit that writing up evaluation reports of advocacy projects was the least favourite part of my job.
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