The more I use Evernote, the more I fall in love with it.
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It’s most often described as a note-taking tool but it’s truly a powerhouse productivity tool.
If you’re a content marketer or a busy executive, you no doubt deal with massive amounts of information every day. Evernote helps you track and organize it all.
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I honestly couldn’t live without it.
Evernote Essentials
Looking to wring even more from the software, last week I read Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly. I wanted to uncover some useful tips and hacks — and I wasn’t disappointed.
Brett first wrote his comprehensive guide to Evernote in 2010. It was so well done that Evernote hired him, and he’s been working with them ever since. Evernote Essentials is now in its fourth edition.
Whether you’re completely new to Evernote or have been using it for a while, you’re sure to find something in Brett’s book to make managing content — and your life — better and easier.
As a taste, here are 5 tricks I learned from Evernote Essentials that can quickly kick your productivity up a notch.
1] Name your default notebook @Inbox.
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When you open up an Evernote account, the tool sets up your first notebook for you. It’s called [username]’s notebook and it’s where all your notes go to live unless you specifically place them somewhere else.
I’ve been using Evernote for almost two years now and I had around 100 notes in my default notebook — mostly miscellaneous things I didn’t know where else to file but also quite a large number of notes that had defaulted there without me noticing. In other words, an unorganized mess.
It had never occurred to me to change the notebook name. To be frank, when I came across this tip in Brett’s book I was underwhelmed.
But wait a gosh darn minute. When I changed the notebook name to @Inbox, a light bulb went off.
I realized that the default notebook shouldn’t be a permanent home for lost and orphaned notes. It should be a temporary place for notes to sit until you have time to process them — that is, give them a proper home, in a proper notebook, with proper tags.
I immediately went through the whole batch of 100 some-odd notes and cleared them out. Woo! What a feeling. Now my Evernote is even spiffier and more organized than before.
As new notes come into my @Inbox, the name will remind me to go through them and not leave them there to molder.
Score one for the simple tips.
(By the way, putting the @ symbol at the start of a notebook name is another Evernote trick. It keeps the notebook at the top of your notebook pile.)
2] Create a notebook table of contents.
A notebook in Evernote is a collection of notes. If you’ve got a particularly fat notebook that contains a lot of notes, it can be hard to see and find all the content.
For example, I have a notebook where I keep Kindle highlights of all the books I’ve read. Rather than having to page my way through each note, it’d be really handy to see at a glance every single book I’ve read and annotated.
Luckily, there’s a trick for that! You create a table of contents for your notebook.
Here’s how:
- Go into the notebook you want the table of contents for.
- Select all notes.
- Right-click and choose Copy Note Links from the menu.
- Paste the content into a new note.
- Give the note a title, like Books Read – Master List.
- At the top of the new note, click on the alarm clock that says Reminder and set a reminder without a date.
Like magic, you now have a list of every note title in the notebook — and each one is hyperlinked to its appropriate note.
Setting the reminder makes sure your table of contents always stays at the top of the notebook.
Bloody brilliant, as the Brits say.
3] Back up your blog posts to Evernote.
A blog is the lifeblood of any content marketing program. Do you have an easy way to archive all the content?
Now you do.
With the help of a handy app called IFTTT (short for If This, Then That), you can automatically feed your blog posts into Evernote as they’re published.
Simply set up an IFTTT command that says “Grab my RSS feed and every time there’s a new blog post, make it a note in Evernote.”
The new note will even include the URL of the live blog post so you can click through to see it on the web anytime you like.
For extra kick, combine this trick with a table of contents. Keep a note at the top of your blog feed notebook with a linked list of all your blog posts.
I can think of many uses for this at-a-glance overview of everything you’ve ever written about. Two of them:
- Help you see which old posts you can cross-reference (great for SEO juice)
- Import into a mind map tool to help in developing your editorial calendar
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4] Use checkboxes to designate action items in meetings.
Taking meeting notes was one of the very first ways I used Evernote. If there was an action item for me, I would preface a note with ACTION. When it was done, I’d add DONE in red letters at the end.
It worked, but it’s not exactly elegant.
Once again, Brett comes to the rescue with a simple tip I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t think of on my own: Use checkboxes.
Evernote has a checkbox feature that sits in the text formatting menu next to the bullet point and numbered list options.
Highlight your action item and give it a checkbox.
You can search for checkboxes that are complete or incomplete (search todo:true or todo:false), which makes finding current or past action items super easy.
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5] Feed your to-do app with Evernote action items.
Tip #4 is basic, but it gets an extra shot of power when you take checkbox items just a little a bit further.
Like me, Brett doesn’t use Evernote as his to-do app. (I use Todoist. I’m not sure what Brett uses.)
So at the end of every meeting, he goes back to his desk and manually transfers all his Evernote action items, identified by a checkbox, to his to-do app.
Then he checks off all the items in Evernote.
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In this case, the checked box means the task has been successfully captured for further tracking, not that the task is complete.
Again, because you can search by complete or incomplete tasks, it’s really easy to know if you’ve missed capturing any of your to-dos.
To grab a copy of Evernote Essentials for yourself, head over to Brett’s website called Bridging the Nerd Gap.
The cool thing (or one of the cool things) about buying this book is that you get free updates forever. As Evernote rolls out new features and Brett updates Evernote Essentials, you get each new edition at no charge. Nice!
What are your favorite Evernote tricks?
Disclosure: I am an affiliate for Evernote Essentials.
Previously, we had discussed about Evernote, a simple & effective note-taking application:
http://www.smarthabits.in/posts/organize-life-evernote/
Also, we had discussed about IFTTT, an innovative solution which connects applications to automate tasks:
http://www.smarthabits.in/posts/automate-your-life-with-ifttt-if-this-then-that/
Today, we shall find out how integrating Evernote with IFTTT can help us automate, archive & optimize our digital experience. Following are few useful recipes with descriptions & links. Each recipe can be installed with just a click.
Save starred Gmails to Evernote:
What does it do?
Whenever you “star” an email in your google account (gmail), the whole email body with title will be copied into a new note under a dedicated notebook in Evernote.
Why is it useful?
There will be instances when you might have to follow up some action items for an email. By “starring” it, the email is copied into evernote and depending on the action item, you can later move it to your “To-Do” notebook in Evernote (also add reminder alarm to it) and after it is completed, you can move it to “Done” list notebook in Evernote. Another use-case is to archive useful emails. Suppose you receive an interesting article over email, you can “star” it, so that it is automatically copied to the dedicated notebook in Evernote, and later move it to other notebooks and add appropriate tags for easy navigation & searchability in future.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/73746-save-starred-gmails-to-evernote
Save received SMS to Evernote:
What does it do?
Whenever your phone receives text SMS, it is appended into a dedicated notebook in Evernote.
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When your SMSes are archived in a single notebook in Evernote, searching becomes easy and it is possible to access any of your older SMSes in an instant. Even if you change your phone or update the phone OS or even format/erase data on the phone, the SMSes will still be accessible in Evernote.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/177775-archive-my-received-sms-to-evernote
Save tweets of a specific user to Evernote:
What does it do?
Whenever a specific user tweets/retweets, it will be appended into a notebook in Evernote.
Why is it useful?
There are several twitter users (including official twitter handles of news agencies) who tweet throughout the day providing updates, quick reports etc. You can specifically choose such users while setting up this recipe so that whenever that user tweets something, it goes into a dedicated notebook in Evernote. At the end of the day, you can read these at leisure in one go.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/272778-archive-tweets-from-a-specific-user-into-evernote
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Save favourite tweets to Evernote:
What does it do? Whenever you favourite any tweet, it copies that tweet into a dedicated notebook in Evernote.
Why is it useful? If you need access to that tweet (content of that tweet) later, you will be able to find it easily in your Evernote notebook without any hassles. Even if the tweet is deleted or the twitter account is deactivated, you can still access it because a copy of it will be available in your notebook.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/108658-save-favorite-tweets-to-evernote
Create your Twitter journal in Evernote:
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What does it do? Whenever you tweet/retweet something, it will automatically be appended into a dedicated notebook in Evernote.
Why is it useful? You can use this feature to automatically maintain a journal of your own tweets. Thanks to the search feature in Evernote, you will be able to easily search any of your old tweets.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/114761-twitter-will-automatically-archive-to-evernote
Create your Facebook journal in Evernote:
What does it do? Whenever you post a status update in Facebook, it will automatically be appended into a dedicated notebook in Evernote.
Why is it useful? You can use this feature to maintain a journal of your own facebook updates. Facebook users would agree that scrolling their timeline to find older posts is a herculean task. This feature makes it easy to access because all the status updates will be in a notebook which becomes like a journal, automatically documenting your updates.
Link to the recipe:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/69209-make-a-diary-of-your-facebook-statuses-in-evernote
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