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Imagine a bunch of folders with documents in a file drawer. Evernote is the file drawer, Notebooks are the folders, and a Note would be an individual sheet of paper -- one document in one of the folders.
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Quick reference
Topic
Evernote Note
When to use
Imagine a bunch of folders with documents in a file drawer. Evernote is the file drawer, Notebooks are the folders, and a Note would be an individual sheet of paper -- one document in one of the folders.
Instructions
Evernote Notes come in different formats:
- Plain text (e.g. Word document)
- Image (e.g. PDF or photos)
- Audio file
- Combination of those
Structure of a Note:
- Title: You can click on the title area to give your Note a title or edit it at any point later.
- Body: White rectangle right below the title. You can create the body of your Note by:
- Typing text.
- Recording audio. Just click the microphone on the formatting bar and the audio will start recording. Once you are done, click “Save” and the audio file will be embedded in the body of the note.
- Taking a snapshot.
- Dragging, copying, and emailing documents into it. You can do that with both text documents and images. Emailing into Evernote is a premium feature, but we’ll take a look at a workaround in another lesson.
- Attaching a document.
- Formatting ribbon--the collection of elements that allow you to alter the style of the text of your Note or the layout elements.
- The info panel--the panel right above the formatting ribbon. The tools on this panel allow you to:
- See the name of the Notebook the current Note belongs to. If you click on the Notebook name, Evernote will pull up the entire list of your Notebooks, so that you could move your current Note to another Notebook, if you wanted to.
- See the tags the current Note is tagged with. If you click on the tag, a bar would pop up that will allow you to remove the current tag and/or add new tags.
- Set reminders (alarm icon).
- See the current Note in a presentation mode (screen icon) (premium feature).
- Annotate entire Note as PDF (circled letter “a”) (premium feature)
- Get more info about the Note (little “I” in a circle). A lot of this information is available outside this panel (e.g., title of the Note, Notebook is belongs to, and any tag(s) it carries). In addition to that, this info drop down allows you to see when this Note was created and last modified, the Note’s URL (if you clipped it from the web), the location where the Note was created (if you have activated the location feature), and the last time the Note was synced. If the Note contains attachments that are capable of being indexed for search (like images), it will also tell you whether they’ve been indexed. You can also see the Note’s size (in bytes as well as the word and letter counts), its author, and history.
- Delete the Note (trash bin icon). If you click on the trash bin icon Evernote will delete the Note without a message prompting you to confirm you want to delete your Note. So, be careful with the trash bin icon. However, if you end up deleting a Note that you wanted to keep, you can always go to the Trash and restore it.
- Share the Note.
You can perform similar operations with a Note by going to the Note item of the main menu.
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