Yesterday I showed you how I use Evernote to archive sermon work.  Today I'll show you how I use it for liturgy archiving.

If you have ever had to write a Sunday bulletin for a worship service you've discovered this one key time saving practice: archive what you use each week.  The majority of pastors I know have a file on their computer with various snippets that go into the Sunday bulletin.  There are calls to worship, assurances of pardon, creeds, confessions, and the like.  But big files can be difficult to maintain and search. 

Enter Evernote.

I've been using Evernote for a few weeks now to archive the different parts of the bulletin I do each week.  I created a notebook called "liturgy"—creative, I know.  Then I created files named by the various components of worship.  At the end of preparing the bulletin each week I simply cut and paste each section to its appropriate file and voila—a searchable, cut-and-paste-able index of liturgy resources. 

I also do this with quotes and song lyrics that are used in worship. 

If you contribute to the Sunday bulletin what useful personal practices or resources do you use?

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