10 Evernote Hacks & Tips

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[@thibautguerquin6087]

Timecode by hack : (1) 1:12 Use desktop app. (2) 1:57 Use an Inbox notebook. (3) 2:45 Process your Inbox ! (4) 3:35 Use Notebooks instead of Tags to organize. (5) 3:51 Use a naming Convention. (6) 5:41 learn search panel and use it. (7) 6:34 Use note Links. (8) 7:37 Use the Web Clipper to save web content into you Evernote (9) 8:38 Using Premium allow to fwd. emails to your Evernote. (10) 9:54 Learn/Setup your hotkeys to navigate faster through the Evernote's desktop app. (Bonus) 11:31 Add a table of content note in each notebook to gain time while searching a precise note into it.

[@merlin2600]

In summary: 1. Use full desktop app to organize your data and mobile to capture new stuff 2. Create an Inbox notebook and set it as default 3. Do things and move to other notebooks 4. Organize with notebooks, not tags, easier for sharing 5. Use a naming convention 6. Learn the advanced search parameters like intitle: 7. Discover "note links" 8. Create notes from outside Evernote: web clipper, ... 9. Premium can forward email to Evernote 9B. From Mobile, on iOS "Scannable" app 10. Use shortcuts to jump to Evernote 11. Pin a ToC note at the top with links to main notes

[@marcosmos7478]

thanks!

[@JHatLpool]

Folks, this tutorial gives very, very good recommendations. All of the points raised are useful. Even an old Evernote war horse like myself learned something from it.

[@susanharkema2888]

Now THIS is a valuable Evernote video...FINALLY! Thanks guys.

[@RainDancerVideo]

The best set of Evernote tips for Power Users I have seen. Well worth watching. Thanks for sharing.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ምን ማለት ነው የማላቀውን ነገር ለማሳውቅ መሞከር ነው በጣም ከደ ደብኩብህ ፈተና ወድቀሀል ብሎ መተው ነው ሌላ ምን ይደረጋል

[@emmgeevideo]

When you explained why you use “dot” “Inbox” you said it was a naming convention to denote “collection point”. You should had added that the dot is for sorting purposes so that it sorts to the top. You’ve numbered your other folders for the same reason, to control where they are positioned in the list.

[@TimeFliesTimeManagement]

Evernote is definitely one of my favorite apps... can’t do without it 😁 thanks for this great video 🙏

[@keepproductive]

Thank you! Agree. The perfect filing cabinet.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ምንም የገባኝ ነገር የለም ማለት ሚስጥሬን አሳልፈህ ሰጠህብኝ እየተባልኩ ነው ያለው

[@danny.halstead2181]

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen

[@NicoVeenkamp]

As a heavy user of tags I concur on what Stacey says about notebooks and tags. Even you don’t do a lot of sharing notes or notebooks. Also the tip about search is essential. This helps you find quickly notes, even though they are a few years old. I recently watched the Evernote video Behind the Scenes on search and it looks like that more in-depth searching will become easier for people. Glad that for the search pro’s that are more into using advanced search strategies, nothing will change.

[@Quest4TruthUSA]

I agree too with one exception---I often need to search all notebooks except one (-notebook:PhoneConversation). The problem is that the "-notebook:" syntax is not valid except for tags. So I have to tag everynote in the PhoneConversation notebook so i can use "-tag:" syntax.

[@NicoVeenkamp]

Lee Deavers Good point. I usually ignore results from a notebook that I did not want to include. Another issue is when you have saved searches that include an offline notebook. It will run fine on the computer that has the offline notebook, but will return an error on your mobile or tablet where the offline notebook is not present. Minor nags, but still. 😉

[@BDV000]

Using the web for organizing and mobile for capture is gold.

[@CarlosBenjamin]

I tried maintaining a massive tag list, but finally decided I could just add a few words that weren’t already in the note to the bottom, and when I went to search, they worked as well as tags.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

hunny bro ባትሪ ሊዘጋብኝ ነው ቻርጅ ላድርግ ይቅርታ

[@johngeverett]

I have done that, as well! I enclose search words in square brackets so when I see them later I know why they are there.

[@joseamezola6280]

I use OneNote but I found this incredibly useful as well - almost all of the hacks transfer well. I will be using Evernote for school courses as it allows me to create stacks. OneNote is for taking notes and managing information by areas of life such as health, travel, etc.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እኔ ሀክ ተደረገ የምትይኝ ነገር በኔ በኩል ምንም የሆነ ነገር የለም በእርግጠኛነት

[@jeffeisley]

dude Stacey nailed these

[@keepproductive]

She certainly did!

[@jeffeisley]

this vid is CLLLLEEEEEEEAAAN, great editing 👍props

[@keepproductive]

Thanks Jeff, experimental editing for sure!

[@sanguinj]

Great Tutorial, Thanks !. May be you can help me with a this concern. How can I capture specific tip from a youtube video without having to clip the full video. Thanks again.

[@ronp3000]

I love this! 🎉

[@keepproductive]

Thanks Ron!

[@linda_guitar8869]

Well, one thing I realized, while watching this video, is that I already use Evernote VERY effectively. There are some additional uses/features that I could mention, if I were to make a video. And I find tags to be very useful, especially when saving photos! Also, I have enough notebooks that I don't want to create separate notebooks for every possible sub-subject that I have notes about. So I use tags as a way to find sub-subjects.

[@JHatLpool]

Your final point is a good one. Thanks.

[@loganm577]

Thanks. Like the note link point.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

never mind for to you pls

[@dimpapathe]

Great Video !! My question is this : why when you start using Evernote there are no videos or tutorial like this and we are all left in blank....it took me 5 years to get there. I am a premium user and I am so dependent in my Evernote. Thanks again......

[@yevgeni9148]

Thanks!

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ላንተም ጭምር

[@LYT101]

Здорово, благодарю.

[@johngeverett]

Folders are where you store the notes. Folders can help you find a note, but if you need a note linked to multiple contexts, tags will provide that extra level of association across several folders. Tags also address the lack of subfolders.

[@ManuelGarciaMaestracci]

Excelente

[@English_JohnB]

I've been using Evernote for years and, for whatever reason, my notes are organized by notebooks, but I use tags, as you mentioned, as a search aide, but with the newer search engine in EN, maybe tags are less necessary. Note links are great but it still has a few bugs that I've recently created a ticket for. #vivaEvernote

[@sunbhattacharjee655]

"Where can anyone find you ?" is such a great question and it does genuinely help.

[@jr87655]

First rate video....stimulating content

[@keepproductive]

Thank you John!

[@TimOlson1]

Power tip for Scannable app: click on the oval box which says 'Scannable Document' and name it to suit your scanned pages.Then send to Evernote. Great audio and video to boot!

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እንዳልከኝ ማድረግ እችላለሁ ነግረህኝ እታቅም

[@HarryOrenstein]

My all embracing question : how on earth do you migrate from Evernote if you ever would want to leave. This is a marriage with a prenup that one can never divorce? Or, how to back up Evernote to the Googlesphere Drive?

[@AdamMooreenforcelight]

That is the one thing I am worried about before jumping into the Evernote universe.

[@jamma246]

This is a very good question.

[@HarryOrenstein]

I continue to use Evernote as my (Treasury or) repository for all things I find online using the clipper and have been a Premium users for ages. What continuously bothers me is that there is no escape. No one (and I have asked many) knows how to divorce Evernote even amicably.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እኔም እንደዛው እንዲሆን ፍላጎቴ ነው bro

[@firevr]

"Covering all bases" I got you bro! ;-)

[@keepproductive]

That's it!!!! Can't believe I didn't - you did get me! :-)

[@firevr]

Haha I do that all the time, forgetting the name of the person I’m speaking with is the worst. Great video too, I like your use case; as a filling cabinet.

[@HBSuccess]

I totally agree with all your tips, but sadly they’re mostly all the things Evernote was supposed to eliminate the need for. Name conventions. Having to favor the desktop. Folders not tags. Etc. Pretty much what I taught DOS users in 1985.

[@AlatAguia]

So, In a first tip, how can i do if a use Linux and i dont have desktop versio for my os?

[@Jakp3]

Same. We need the Linux client

[@szdavid1]

Hi, some people say Evernote is not good enough now, that it is now a not so good product while it was some tme ago. What do you think of that ? Would you recommend to still use this app ?

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እኔ በevernot የፃፍኩትን ሰዎች ጎበኙት ነው የምትይኝ እኔ አልገባኝም ይህ የሆነስ ይመስልሀል አረ አታስጨንቀኝ bro pls ለምን እንድሳቀቅና እንድፈራ ታደርገኛለህ

[@forhadrh]

Nice :)

[@emmgeevideo]

Around 4:00 I’m seeing that you have your notebook list in the main panel and you can also see a list of notes in the main panel. Is this a Mac-only thing? If not, how do you do it in Windows?

[@timbushell8640]

Default view via the web version - under Window/Chrome... ... the Screens of use are Francesco's account - hence Luton Airport, etc. So some are - it seems - web views not "App" views.

[@LisaMarli]

I suck at naming conventions and a forward a lot of emails and use web clipping. So I find Those Hated Tags, as the best way to unify thoughts. You start a tag name, and the rest of the name shows up, instant conformity. Typos are Not Your Friend. Tag is also a search parameter. Yes, it's an extra step. But it's so useful. And YES, to notebooks. You can easily archive old notebooks by stacking them into a Z Done folder. (My To Do stack has 1 To Do, To Do Eventually, and Z To Done). If you can't have fun, you are doing it wrong. SHORTCUTS - On my mobile phone, shortcuts to the internal list for things I need to find now. Short cut to my "Home Page", for things I need to keep immediate (packing lists, emails with directions to today's event). Evernote Camera is smart in the Android Evernote app. And will understand what you are trying to capture. I have no problems with it.

[@PatriciaMuirMaestroQ]

Lisa. Work on your naming conventions! It's like "filing 101" which unfortunately is a lost art and undervalued skill/hack. It should be taught in school as a basic life skill in our digital world.

[@AndyHake]

Great tips, but I do want to take you up on your point 5. Using a naming convention instead of tags. Sure. But, why not use tags to keep your naming convention consistent?

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እንተ እኔን ትጠረጥረኛለህ ለምን ጠረጠርከኝ ምን ሆነህ ምን አድርጌብህ hunny ያንተ ጉዳይ የኔ ጉዳይ ነው እኮ

[@PeterBerghold]

So where is the Linux desktop app? I use Tusk but it is basically a web client and nowhere as good as a dedicated desktop app.

[@1200owner]

Intitle: search only works (for me anyway) if you don't leave a space after the colon, unlike in the video.(Although I've just rewatched and she does say no spaces. Just the optic is wrong.

[@mjafarloilatu8626]

how to transcribe audio in Evernote

[@jamma246]

I used to tag all of my emails on gmail, but I realised that it's just a waste of time. Whenever I want to find something I just search for it, and the search feature seems powerful enough to always find what I want with ease. I do try to maintain a decent file structure for my work emails e.g., for archiving, but this feels like a waste of time for personal email.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እኔ ባልገባኝ አንተ በገባህ ጉዳይ ወደ ኻላ ብቀርብህ የግድ እንዲገባኝ ማድረግ ካልቻልክ ምን ማድረግ ይቻላል

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ምን ማለት ነው ዌስት ኦፍ ታይም በጣም ደደብኩብህ

[@Jakp3]

I'm a premium user and I love Evernote but we need a Linux app. Please

[@jamma246]

Seconded! It's basically pointless me using it without a good Linux app.

[@tusharjethva2683]

I have accidentally erased data from note, pls note that note not deleted but erased and now want to recover old data. Could you please help me to recover erased data?

[@keepproductive]

Best to visit the TRASH area in Evernote and you’ll find it there. Then you can restore it to notes.

[@amandasteven1400]

luv these tips... thanks! but 30,000 notes seems like 29,500 too many... less is more :)

[@aomv]

facepalm about tags - it's not a tip, it's a workaround!

[@michaleyohannes8020]

እርሱን መጠቀም እችላለሁ

[@whatsupdate]

What does it mean “tags don’t render the same across all devices?”

[@infamouse9149]

I use Evernote across all devices & platforms. and would be what most people say a 'power user' .. so I think what she means is that on the desktop versions of Evernote you can 'nest' the tags - or build a tag tree - ie : TRAVEL then next "Canada" under that and then "Alberta" under that one. On mobile devices that tree doesn't really show up. To "fix" that problem, people like myself will build the structure into the tag - so I'll have tags like travel-canada and travel-canada-alberta for example. It builds the 'tree' into the tag name. Hope that helps explain it.

[@whatsupdate]

infamous e thanks!

[@jamma246]

@@infamouse9149 _"To "fix" that problem, people like myself will build the structure into the tag"_ Honestly, this should be a point of key embarrassment for Evernote. It's their own software, and the whole bloody point is to unify experiences across devices for organisation purposes!! I use it on my Android phone but without a Linux app I think I'm going to look around for an alternative. The software on my phone feels kind of bloated too tbh.

[@yassiralarcon268]

Skip to 1:12 Thank me later

[@emmgeevideo]

Obviously, if you can imagine, you’re “covering your bases”. If you had said something not so nice but you’re taking it back you would be covering you a__”.

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ይሄውል የምትናገረው ነገር በያጠፋሁበት ሰአት ስህተቴን ብትነግረኝ በጣም እራሴን ማረም እንዳልችል ዘግተህኝ አሁን እንዱህ ነው ብለህ ትነግረኛለህ

[@emmgeevideo]

I couldn’t have said it better myself...

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ሀኒ ሲጀምር ያንችን ፎቶ እልነበረም ማውጣት የፈለግኩት አንች እንደምታስቢው አይደለም

[@michaleyohannes8020]

ይቅርታ ሀኒ እወድሀለሁ ብዙ ባንተ ያጠፋሁት ነገር አለ ብዬ ሀሳብ የለኝም ሀኒ

[@michaleyohannes8020]

@@emmgeevideo እኔ አንተ ላይ ምን እጠፋሁ በፍፁም እንደርሱ አታስብ ሀኒ

[@ianf123]

I don't want to be "that guy", but 10 ways to what is nothing more than using Evernote as it was designed is not an appropriate use of the word "hacks". Calling these "hacks" demeans the word, and is just metoo-ism.

[@linda_guitar8869]

I agree. This was more of a basic "How to use Evernote features effectively" video.

[@keepproductive]

Noted for future Ian, we're looking to do more Evernote advice videos. All ears!

[@ianf123]

@@keepproductive Evernote is a great tool, and I look forward to those videos. My problem was simply misusing the trendy word. Thanks for the channel, and the content.

[@linda_guitar8869]

@@keepproductive If you're interested in doing things to make Evernote more useful for musicians and music teachers, I've got some suggestions! I use Evernote to keep track of which songs I need to learn, which instruments I'm playing on each song, set lists, which key each song is in, what part to sing harmonies on, and more. I could use some templates for all of that! I also teach music, and keep all my lesson schedules and lesson notes in Evernote. One of the things I love about Evernote is being able to easily integrate photos into the notes! Eg., if I write something out on the whiteboard, I take a picture of it in my notes for that lesson, and later email it to the student (or student's parent)!

[@neilhymers6727]

13 minutes?! And yes your app sucks!