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Notebooks are used to store and organize notes in a logical way.
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Quick reference
Topic
Notebooks.
When to use
Notebooks are used to store and organize notes in a logical way.
Instructions
Notebooks are digital containers for notes. Presently, every Evernote user can have up to 250 personal notebooks.
When you first open an account with Evernote, you’ll have a single Notebook called [your username]’s Notebook. Your Notes will live in that Notebook until you start creating additional Notebooks and start saving your Notes in different Notebooks.
To create a new Notebook, open the File menu and select “New Notebook.” If you’d like your new Notebook to be accessible on different devices and syncronized across different platforms, select “Syncronized Notebook” option. If you’d like the Notebook to be accessible only on your computer, select “Local Notebook.” (Please note that you cannot change a Notebook’s type once it has been created). Then enter the name of your new Notebook and hit Return.
You can also create new Notebooks when you go directly to your Notebooks section (Sidebar > Notebooks). As you create more Notebooks, you’ll find that section useful to search for specific notebooks or arrange your Notebooks in different orders. You can organize by:
- Owner (sorts the Notebooks by the owner)
- Name (sorts Notebooks alphabetically)
- Count (sorts Notebooks by the number of Notes contained in each Notebook. Notebooks with the highest number of Notes will be at the top)
- Updated (sorts Notebooks according to the last time their Notes were modified with the most recently updated Notebook at the top)
You can perform different operations with a Notebook when you right-click its name. When you do, you’ll see these options:
- New Notebook—this option creates a new Notebook.
- Present—by clicking this option you’ll be able to open the first Note in full screen.
- Share Notebook—allows you to share the Notebook (we look in more detail at this option in one of the upcoming lessons).
- Publish—this mean you can create a public link for your Notebook. Anyone with the public link is able to see and join this Notebook.
- Notebook Settings—this is where you can change the Notebook’s name as well as indicate if you’d like to make this Notebook your default Notebook. Your default Notebook is the Notebook where Evernote saves your Notes unless you specified a different one.
- Rename Notebook—self-explanatory.
- Delete Notebook—self-explanatory. Just keep in mind that when you delete a Notebook you delete all the Notes in that Notebook too. So, be careful with the Delete option.
- Add to Stack—create a collection of Notebooks (we’ll cover this topic in more detail in one of the upcoming lessons too).
- Add Notebook to Shortcuts—self-explanatory.
- Sort by Notebook Owner, Name, Count, and Updated—see explanations above.
Export Notes from [Notebook Name]—this option will let you export all of the notes in that Notebook.
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