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Overview
Looking for a way to stay better organized in your personal or professional life? This Evernote training course will show you how to write, search, share and collect all your information in one place.
In 40 engaging evernote training videos, you will learn how to make the most out of the tools and features included in the software application. By the end of the course, you should be able to take notes, create notebooks, share information with others, search for information within Evernote and get information into Evernote.
Highlights:
- Learn to set up your Evernote account and get familiarized with the software application
- Understand how to format Evernote notes, set reminders and share notes
- Format your notes into notebooks
- Learn tagging strategies to help organize your notes
- Easily find information within Evernote
- Get information into Evernote through Email, Webclipper or Skitch
- Learn how Evernote can elevate your productivity when managing tasks and projects, nurturing relationships, and organizing events
- Tips and tricks for small business owners, students, parents and more
Who is this Evernote training course for:
- Those who want to learn practical tools and techniques to use Evernote effectively
- Novices or existing users who want to learn how to use Evernote to its fullest capability
- Business professionals, students, managers, business owners, entrepreneurs
About the instructor:
An Evernote Certified Consultant, Natasha Vorompiova is a total systems geek. In the corporate world, she always gravitated towards organizational projects even if it meant going above and beyond her duties. She fell in love with Evernote and decided to share her tips and tricks to help others in this online course. In addition to being a passionate instructor, she has written Evernote guides that have been featured all over the web for their strength in helping small business owners.
Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.
Summary
Skill level
Beginner
Certificate
Lessons
40
Accredited by
CPD
Pre-requisites
None
Video duration
2h 10m
Estimated study time
20h for all materials
Instructor
Syllabus
Getting to Know Evernote
Setting up an Evernote Account
If you don’t have an Evernote account, follow these simple instructions to set it up.
The Toolbar
One of the ways to access account info, synchronize notes, create new notes, perform searches, etc.
The Sidebar
The Sidebar (also referred to as the Left Panel) shows you the broadest level of categorization of your Evernote documents.
The Middle Pane
The area to the right from the Sidebar is the main display area.
Work Chat
Work Chat allows you to chat with others—either individuals or groups. You can also share individual Notes and entire Notebooks using Work Chat.
Desktop vs. Web Versions
When creating an Evernote account, make sure to download Evernote to your computer. When you do that, Evernote will store local copies of all your notes, so that you can access them more quickly and when not online. When you go back online, your notes will be synchronized, with a copy in the cloud and another copy on your home computer.
Notes
Evernote Note (Overall Structure)
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.
Formatting
Use Formatting when you want to alter the style of the text of your Note, add a list or layout elements.
Reminders
For time sensitive items, take advantage of Evernote’s reminder feature.
Note Links
Note links come in very handy when you cross reference or share the Notes.
Sharing a Note
If you want to give someone access to the contents of your Note you can easily share it.
Performing Actions with Multiple Notes
When you want to make modifications to several Notes at once.
Notebooks
Notebooks (creating, deleting)
Notebooks are used to store and organize notes in a logical way.
Sharing Notebooks
If you want to give someone access to the contents of your Notebook you can easily share it.
Creating Notebook Table of Contents
Creating a Table of Contents is a fantastic way to bundle links to individual notes into a single Note.
Notebook Stacks
Notebook stacks are used to organize notebooks by certain characteristic.
Organizing Notebooks
If you’d like to structure your Notebooks so that you can quickly find what you are looking for, it’s best to organize them.
Tags
Tags
Tags are used to organize notes.
Tagging Strategies
Since it’s very easy to have more tags than necessary, it’s important to develop a strategy that you follow when tagging your Notes.
Organizing Tags
If you’d like to have a structure for your tags so that you can quickly find what you are looking for, it’s best to organize your tags.
Finding Information in Evernote
Basic Search
Evernote’s search function is very powerful and allows you to quickly find documents without having to remember in what notebook you saved them.
Search Operators
When searching in Evernote, use search operators to narrow down your search.
Saving, Retrieving, Deleting a Search
If you find yourself running the same searches on a regular basis, you can create a shortcut for yourself by saving that search. Naturally, you can always modify it and delete it altogether once you no longer need it.
Getting Information to Evernote
Clipping From Desktop
It’s very overwhelming to hunt for key information in multiple locations. Mastering different ways of getting information into Evernote will help you to turn Evernote into a single information hub.
Emailing into Evernote
If you’d like to save in Evernote information received via email, you can forward your emails into Evernote.
Webclipper
When you need to clip webpages, articles, or URLs, take advantage of Evernote’s Web Clipper.
Skitch
Skitch is an amazing tool to grab and annotate images and send them into Evernote. It’s very handy to give instructions, draw attention to something, or save an image as an idea or inspiration.
Keeping Evernote Organized
Organizing Evernote Using Notebooks
Evernote doesn’t have a rigid built-in structure for organizing your information. So, you’ve got to take matters into your own hands and organize your Evernote yourself. One way to do it is by using Notebooks.
Organizing Evernote Using Tags
Another way of organizing your Evernote by using tags.
Maintaining Evernote
Evernote has the potential to become your “external brain,” which makes it extremely important for you to keep your information in Evernote as orderly as possible.
Uses of Evernote
Managing Tasks
Evernote is not a dedicated task-management tool, but makes it very easy for you to manage uour task lists.
Managing Projects
Evernote is a unique platform that allows us to manage projects with ease.
Nurturing Relationships
Evernote can help you to master the skill of nurturing relationships and makes it amazingly easy to keep in touch with others.
Evernote for Organizing Events
Event planning isn’t easy, especially because you’re also working, raising a family, studying, and being responsible for a thousand and one other things. Evernote is your all-in-one solution to planning.
Evernote Hacks
For Small Business Owners
You could run your business using only Evernote even without upgrading to paid levels.
For Bloggers
If you’d like to create a more organized approach to your blogging, Evernote is just the tool to help you.
For Travelers
If you love traveling, all information like researching interesting destinations, packing lists, and even pictures you take while on your trip can live in one single place in Evernote.
For Parents
Evernote can greatly help if trying to stay on top of everything you need to do as a parent.
For Students
Evernote is a perfect tool for students who take notes during lectures, collect research for papers, collaborate with others, or study for a test.
Unconventional Uses of Evernote
Unconventional Uses of Evernote
Evernote is one mighty tool. Pick something that you do that requires remembering or storing information and play with ways to use Evernote to manage that activity.