Sitting around talking with @iMediaMichelle about how to grab badges when you can't recover your my.sxsw.com password. It dawned on me that I could take a photo of the badge from my mobile evernote client and have a more useful record of the meeting than the plain QR Code.

With Evernote I would have much more information available to me:

• GPS Coordinates of the meeting
• Text recognition for the person's name and/or company
• Ability to scan the QR code at a later date from the image
• Make notes on the encounter
• Tag it with the event. In this case #sxsw

I use the Android client so I selected the Snapshot button.

Took a picture of @marshall_law's badge and then filled in the note.

After the photo synced to the cloud, I pulled it up in my OSX Evernote client and verified that I could scan the QR code if I wanted it in the future. Notice the coordinates, tag, photo information that I've gained, plus having the badge image as I saw it. It'll be easier to remember the person later. 

Evernote has a beta for Android. Scan the QR Code to the right from your phone and open it in the browser. I learned about the beta from this Life Hacker article.

I generated the barcode using ZXing http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/