Category: Evernote
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Taking Notes in Evernote
Taking notes, whether you are in a meeting or in a class, helps you pay attention and stay focused. Evernote is an idea place to not only store your notes, but use it to take notes.
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Evernote: Save Files Using Import Folders
Getting notes and files into Evernote is just as important as having a system for using them and find them again. You can create a folder on your desktop that will automatically migrate files into Evernote.
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Using The Evernote Web Clipper
The Evernote Web clipper is a great way to save content into your system. It is a simple extension for your web browser that will allow you to capture anything that you are reviewing on a web page.
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Evernote: Backlinks In Action
Evernote introduced a new feature called ‘backlinks.’ Now when you add a link to a new note, you can track your link backward to the original note. Here are some practical uses of this new feature.
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Evernote Introduces Backlinks
Evernote is rolling out a new ‘backlinks’ feature. It will help us navigate through our notes that link to other notes. Here’s a preview.
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Evernote Sold: How Concerned Should We Be?
With the recently announced sale of Evernote, many of its users are wondering about the future of the company and the app they rely on to stay productive. Evernote Expert Dave Edwards has researched the acquiring company and has some thoughts.
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The Most Popular Evernote Posts of 2022
The end of the year is a good time to reflect on the past 52 weeks. While I take a bit of a break this year, I want to share the top Evernote posts based on viewership from 2022. Enjoy.
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Adapting to Changes In Evernote
Productivity systems evolve and it means we need to make the time to make them work for you. Even Evernote staff have to go through those evolutionary changes.
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New Features Added To Evernote (Dec 2022)
Evernote has just rolled out a new update with many new features, including the way we create links to other files to add recurring tasks and set many defaults. It is a major release of new ways to use the application.
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Getting Started With Using Notebooks in Evernote
We are continuing our series on how to set up and use Evernote. In this episode, how to set up and use notebooks and stacks.
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Getting Reminders from Evernote
There’s been a lot of attention given to how Evernote has expanded its task feature. And it is pretty impressive, but today, I want to show you how you can use the reminders features that go beyond remembering a task.
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How I Use Evernote As A Writer, Content Creator and Blogger
Every writer, content creator, or blogger has a different way to approach their writing. For me, Evernote plays a key role in my research and writing process.
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Merging Notes In Evernote
It’s common to have thousands of notes in Evernote, but what if you want to combine them so that you don’t have a lot of similar notes from different sources. Lett’s look at how to merge notes in Evernote.
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What’s New In Evernote
For a long time it seemed like Evernote never changed, but in recent years the productivity app keeps evolving. Evernote expert Dave Edwards shares some things you may not be aware of from recent updates
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How David Allen Became A Productivity Expert
David Allen is known as the guru of productivity. In this conversation with Dave Edwards he discusses his early background and how he came upon the principles that became known as “Getting Things Done”
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Processing Your Evernote Inbox
While we have to periodically have to clean out our email inbox, the same applies to our Evernote inbox.
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I’m Done with Evernote
You don’t have to look far to find complaints about Evernote. Despite the fact that there are more than 250 Million users around the world, people are not shy about sharing complaints about the cloud based note and productivity system.
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How To Store Kindle and Book Notes In Evernote
Do you get frustrated when you read a book and then a few months later struggle with remembering its key points? I use a combination of Kindle and Evernote to organize the things about books I want to remember.
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Answering Your Questions About Evernote
While Evernote is easy to use, people have questions. In this segment we answer questions about your email address, fonts and document size.
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Creating Links Within Evernote
Evernote users can create and use internal links to help organize their information. Here is how you do it.
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Evernote Features Dave Edwards With Back To School Tips
Many thanks to the folks at Evernote for featuring me in a recent blog post with my tips for using Evernote as a student.
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Widgets: A Faster Way of Using Evernote
Evernote now has a way for you to get to your content quicker with a new widget for your home screen.
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Encrypting In Evernote
While Evernote follows industry standards for the security of our notes there might be a need to encrypt elements of what we input into the system. We will explore how you can encrypt materials in Evernote.
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Getting Organized With Evernote
One of the biggest complaints I hear about Evernote has very little to do with Evernote itself. I’ve heard people say, “I just put articles and things I want to read into Evernote, and never see them again. Today, how to avoid the dumping ground phenomena and make Evernote more valuable to you.
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How I Use Evernote to “Collect Ideas” As Recommended by GTD
We all forget things that we promise ourselves we will remember. I’ve developed a system using Evernote and a few other tools to remember my ideas.
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More on Using “Recurring Tasks” In Evernote
Since Evernote launched its new ‘recurring task’ feature, I’ve been getting questions on how to use it most effectively. So in this episode, we look at ways in which you can use this new addition.
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Some Cool New Features In Evernote
Evernote has made it easier to insert links into your notes. They will allow to add more data to your notes with very little effort.
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An Insiders View of the New Evernote Task Feature: Recurring Tasks
No productivity system is complete without a robust task manager. Evernote’s task manager has been around for some time but they have just released a ‘recurring task’s’ function. Dave Edwards got an insider’s view from Jack Lynch, project manager at Evernote.
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Using Templates In Evernote
One of many of Evernote’s strengths is that you can design your notes any way you want them. But Evernote has now created a lot of helpful templates, so you can have nice looking notes when you want to distribute them or keep them on file.
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Setting Up GTD In Evernote (part 2) “My System”
We continue our series on using GTD – the Getting Things Done methodology – inside of Evernote. It’s simple to set up, and even simpler to use
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Finding New Workflows To Save Time
A reexamination of the way you handle things can save you time. Here is how it worked for a client of mine.
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What I Keep In Evernote
If you’ve ever needed to remember your license plate number or need to show your Covid vaccination card, a notebook in Evernote could be a life-saver. Here are some of the things that I store inside Evernote.
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Getting Stuff Into Evernote
While Evernote is most commonly used to store documents and track projects, it can be very helpful at storing everything from PDFs, emails to audio files. On this edition of Evernote Tips and Tricks, we look at inputting data into Evernote.
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Scanning Notes or Documents Into Evernote
Have you ever lost notes you’ve taken during a meeting? Are you keeping daily journals that eventually sit in the bottom of a drawer? You can bring them alive in Evernote even if they are handwritten.
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Advanced Searches in Evernote
The value of Evernote is not only in its ability to store lots of material, but its ability to quickly search your files when you need specific information. In this episode, we learn basic and advanced search techniques.
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Backing Up Your Notes in Evernote
Whenever you create a note in Evernote, it stores the information in the cloud. How safe is your data? On this episode we show you how to backup your Evernote files as a safety measure, and how to restore a file.
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Evernote: Using Shortcuts As Part of My Organizational System
You can save important notes as shortcuts on your home screen. Using them and tags are very helpful when planning a vacation.
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Evernote Tips: A Caution About Using Tags
One of the most popular features in Evernote is the ability to create tags inside of notes. They allow you to quickly find things that have something in common. But, there is a problem that if you use tags incorrectly it can complicate your system.
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Saved Searches In Evernote Saves Time
If you store a lot of notes in Evernote, you will find the ‘search’ function to be extremely helpful. Today, how to save your searches for faster and repeated use.
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Evernote Tips: Drag & Drop and Assigning Tasks
Evernote is a great place to store meeting notes and even images of whiteboards. Here is how you do it.
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Use Evernote To Build A Contact Data Base
Did you ever receive a business card and lose it before you could input in to your contact management system? Now you can scan your cards and build a powerful data base in Evernote.
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Product Review: Evernote Web Clipper
There’s a great tool that you can use to pull articles or excerpts from your browser into Evernote. It’s called the Evernote Clipper. We review its effectiveness in this episode. Watch my entire series on EVERNOTE, HERE
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Dictate Your Text Into Evernote
Software that converts your voice into text isn’t very popular, but it can be a real time saver. Today, we look at how you can use voice recognition in Evernote.
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Creating Links In Evernote
One of the ways you can keep track of various parts of a project in Evernote, or if you want to share a note with someone else, you can do so by creating a link to that note.
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Why Is Evernote Duplicating My Notes and Creating Conflicts?
A viewer wrote about her frustration that when she opens Evernote, that notes have been duplicated and some are marked as ‘conflicting notes.’ Today, we explain what is going on.
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Now You Can Link Your Calendar to Evernote
Evernote has announced yet another new feature. You are now able to link your Google calendar to Evernote. This video will show you how.
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Sharing Client and Meeting Notes In Evernote
Evernote is not only ideal for taking notes about your projects and clients, but you can also share them with others.
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