I'll be honest: One of my most stress-inducing moments is when I'm at a meeting or conference and run into someone who seems to know who I am but whose name I just can't bring to mind. At a genealogy conference, I usually joke that I'm much better at remembering the names of dead people, but that humor isn't as useful at a library-related conference. So I was intrigued to hear about the new Evernote Hello app. Here's what I know so far:
It's an iPhone app. (Sorry Android users. I would assume that if it proves successful, Evernote will create an Android version soon.)
It synchronizes with Evernote, so all of the information you put into it will be available on all of the devices you use with Evernote (but it will be read-only information...you won't be able to edit it except in the Evernote Hello app itself).
It's intended for people (the people you meet) to put in their own name and contact information, and then to take several photos of themselves. I suspect that this will work for some, but that in other cases, you'll need to enter this info for them. In any event, the information is already date/time-stamped and location-tagged, so you'll be able to figure out the context of where and when you met them. That means that if you meet a whole bunch of people at the same time, you can search for them that way, and the same is true for when you meet a whole bunch of people at the same location.
Finally, when you display someone that you captured using Evernote Hello, you'll also see any notes you took around the same time, so this means that you can see notes you made during a meeting with these people. Interesting idea, eh?
OK, I'll try this out at my next opportunity, and let you know how it goes.
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