I saw a link in a newsletter from TheLadders this morning to this Online Identity Calculator and I decided to give it a whirl.  I luck out because my name is so unique but I still thought it was interesting.  Apparently I have "Stellar" "Purity" and "High" "Diversity"....  As tempted as I am to add that "Digitally Distinct" badge to my website, I think I'll leave it off for now.

From Evernote:

Online Identity Calculator - Results Clipped from: http://www.onlineidcalculator.com/result.php

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	Online Identity Calculator - Results Note: You should see a chart above which plots your Online Identity score. Having problems viewing the chart? Try viewing your chart here.
	The graph above shows your Volume and Relevance of results and positions you in our Online ID four box model. Congratulations. You are digitally distinct! See below for more information about your Google results. This is the nirvana of online identity. A search of your name yields lots of results about you, and most, if not all, reinforce your unique personal brand. Keep up the good work, and remember that your Google results can change as fast as the weather in New England. So, regularly monitor your online identity. That way, if something negative, such as an anonymous ad hominem attack on your character on a blog, crops up, you can address it quickly, before it gets out of hand. Read Chapter 11 of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand for more ideas on how to continue to build your brand online. Grab the digitally distinct badge for your site or blog! In addition to Volume and Relevance, there are two additional measures you need to be concerned with: Purity and Diversity. Purity speaks to how many of the results are about you (not about someone else who has the same name.) Diversity speaks to the multi-media aspect of the results (how much content displayed was in images or video, etc.) Purity Your Purity Score is: Stellar This means you either have a unique name or you have done an outstanding job building relevant, high ranking content on the World Wide Web (or both). Bravo! Keep up the great work! Diversity Your Diversity Score is: High Bravo. You have a great deal of multi-media and/or real-time content. Keep up the great work by continuing to post relevant images/videos at sites like Flickr (flickr.com) and YouTube (youtube.com) and use Twitter (twitter.com) to connect with your brand community. Questions? Comments? Need help? Contact support.

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Organizing Real World Objects Inside Evernote

I use Evernote to keep track of all of the non-actionable things in my life (with one slight exception, explained below).  It's a great tool for scanning papers into, tracking ideas, defining projects, storing bookmarks or making wish lists.  Some of the slightly more challenging things to track, however, are items where I need to keep the real-world object but also would like to be able to track it in Evernote.  For these types of things (like coupons or gift cards with an expiration date, or expensive electronics to track for insurance purposes) I have a special way of storing them in Evernote.

What goes into Evernote?

- All ideas that I have

- Things I may want to buy (photo, note or web-clipping)

- Stuff that I am considering doing (photo, note or web-clipping)

- Pictures of my real world physical property that I want to track (defined as anything sentimental or that I might claim an insurance loss for)

- Time-boxed stuff in my "tickler file" 

     - This is the closest to having actions in Evernote

- Pictures of real world physical things that I want to track electronically but also need to keep physically

     - Like gift cards and coupons

Everything comes into the Notebook called "1 Inbox" 

- It is organized from there using the GTD Processing and Organizing workflow.  All actions are entered into OmniFocus, everything goes into folders:

     - "2 Project Support" - Only "Project Definition" notes go here and they are tagged with a minimum of "projects" and "definition"

     - "4 Notes / Reference" - Where every non-actionable thing goes, even notes that are related to active projects, so long as the actions are removed.  Actions don't go into Evernote, only NOTES do (actions go into OmniFocus).

Tickler File (time-boxed stuff that does not REQUIRE action)

- Put date at the beginning of Note title in YYYYMMDD format

- Tag with "tickler file"

- Put into folder called "7 Waiting For"

- Saved search to show these

Coupons

- Since the physical coupon needs to be saved, it's kept in a manila folder called "coupons"

- Evernote has a scan, picture or note about the coupon

- If it's time boxed it's added to the tickler file (see above)

Physical Things

- Tagged with "physical thing"

- May also be tagged with "insurance" or "sentimental" and some additional identifying tags

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