Evernote...Simplified

Daniel Hayes

SimpleLifeTogether.com@DanielHayes

Overview

• What is Evernote and Why I Love It?

• Evernote Basics

• A “Windshield Tour”

• Evernote Power User Tips

• Expanding Your Busine$$ Using Evernote

What is Evernote

• Described as your "external brain"

• How?

• Capture

• Contain

• Access

• Share

What is Evernote• Evernote Premium

• $5 per month or $45 per year

• What’s the difference?

• Increased ability to share

• Bigger file sizes

• Faster OCR function. More on that soon

• Some interesting add-ons such as text-to-speech, note history and presentation view

Why I Love Evernote

• Ubiquitous capture!

• How ubiquitous? Crazy ubiquitous!

• Desktop, Web, Apps

Why I Love Evernote

• A 100-year company

• There’s a community!

• Security Concerns?

• 3Laws of Data Protection

Evernote Basics Capture

• Type in text...Record your voice

• Dragging in files...Email into account

• Take pics...Scan in...Web Clipper

• Even automated ways...I’ll cover in advanced

Evernote Basics Contain

• Notes: Evernote is centered around Notes

• Get info into Notes (type, drag, email, etc)

• Notebooks: Collections of Notes (Up to 250)

• Tags: Up to 100k!

Evernote Basics Contain Cont’d

• Town = Evernote Database

• Notebooks = Houses in the town

• Notes = People in the houses

• Tags = Relationships people have

Evernote Basics Access

• Access by Notebook, Note, Tag or Location!

• I’ll demo that in a few minutes

• Access by Searching

• OCR can be your best friend!

• Think Keywords in Title, Text, and Tags

Evernote Basics Sharing

• Share by Note

• Allow Editing or View Only

• Share by Notebook

• Make Notebook public

• You can stop sharing if you want, too!

Windshield Tour

• Left to Right

• Top to Bottom

• Slight Differences Between Mac and PC

Power User Tips

• Web Clipper…I Prefer Chrome

• PDFs in Notes, In-Line or File Attachment

• Emailing Into Evernote Notebooks/Tags

• @Notebook #Tag

• Go Light on Notebooks, Heavy on Keywords

• Stacking Notebooks

More Power User Tips

• Tagging Tips

• Punctuation in Notebook Names

• Scanning

• Did I Mention Keywords?

• Saved Searches

• Encryption

• Hello

• Evernote Food

• Skitch

• Clearly

• “Secret Weapon” for GTD

• IFTTT to Evernote Link

Other Products

Expand Your Busine$$

• Transfer Skills

• Helping Clients Go “Paperless”

• Digitize Records

• Manuals

• Storage/Packing List Options

Links

• Slides: SimpleLifeTogether.com/napo-sa

• Evernote Episodes:

• SimpleLifeTogether.com/017

• SimpleLifeTogether.com/018

• SimpleLifeTogether.com/qr

Evernote...Simplified

Daniel Hayes

SimpleLifeTogether.com

@DanielHayes