For Research and Outreach 2014 COMO Crystal Renfro & Mary Axford Georgia Tech Library October 2014 Image courtesy of evernote.com
Dec 20, 2014
For Research and Outreach
2014 COMOCrystal Renfro & Mary Axford
Georgia Tech LibraryOctober 2014
Image courtesy of evernote.com
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What is Evernote?
• Note-Taking App• Highly versatile• Get everything out of one’s brain and into
something visible - GTD• Works on most devices• Syncs across all devices• The more one uses it, the more indispensable
it becomes
Evernote More than
text
audio
tweets
emails
images
Documents
pdfs
Evernote 5 for iOS
Evernote 5 for Android
By the Numbers
Free Account• Free• 60MB upload monthly• 25MB per note• 50 emails to EN notebooks• 100,000 notes• 10,000 tags• 100 Saved Searches• 3000 x 2400px at 300 DPI images
are OCR-able.• 100 Joined notebooks• Unlimited local notebooks
Premium Account• $45 per year• 1GB upload monthly• 100MB per note• 250 emails to EN notebooks
Using Evernote for Research
• Organize tasks for project• Create search history of databases/searches
used for literature search• Keep a notebook for each class and/or
research project• Use reminders and checklists to stay on track• Email communications from other project
members to Evernote account
What can I DO with it?
• Send documents to Evernote via its email address (find address under Tools/account info )
• Can link @myen to twitter account archiving tweets
• Audio record messages• Have audio transcribed via 3rd party apps• Create reminder lists with active checkboxes • Can link notes together• Can select notes and create a Table of Contents
PDFs
• Open PDFs in adobe reader• Images inside PDFs aren’t readable cause OCR.
Images as jpeg or tif can read words inside.• Within Adobe Reader choose copy FILE to
clipboard. Paste into Evernote and its still PDF with all the PDF formatting.
Before Clearly
After Clearly (use before Clipper)
You might have to edit toolbars on right side of Explorer, unlock the toolbar, move the | in order to show the icons. Then relock toolbar.
Clearly for Evernote is the desk lamp icon in the tool bar for the
web version of Evernote.
Evernote web clipper is the square elephant in tool bar for
web version of Evernote.
Clipping from the Web
Click to add text
Helpful Tips & Tricks
• Using INBOX as your default notebook– Everything sent to Evernote will go there and will be easy to find later.
• To-do Tag and To-Do List Checkboxes– Assign a todo tag to every note containing todo items– Drag the tag to Shortcuts for one click access to all todos
from all notebooks.
• Local notebooks (not synced across devices)
Checkbox Example
Shortcuts
Emailing to Evernote
• Evernote Email Address– From Tools/account info
• Can also text to that email address.• Specify reminders, notebooks, and tags in
subject line
Email Example
See next slide
Email Syntax (Subject Line)
Reminder Notebook Tag(s)
Searching Tips
Search for• Specific Tag• Notes WITHOUT Tag• Notes w/ no tags at all• W/I one notebook• Notes prior to the 5th
of August, 2009
Syntax• tag:“name of tag”• -tag:read• -tag:*• notebook:"notebook
name“• -created:20090805
More at: http://droppingsteps.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/evernote-using-extended-search-syntax/
Premium Feature
Table of Contents
• Select Notes• Click “Create Table of Contents Note”• A separate Table of Contents Note is added to
your notebook with live links to each note indexed.
Step 1: Select Notes
Step 2: Click Create TOC Note
Voila! TOC!
consultations
research guides
workshops
invited presentations
Articles
Blog
Outreach
ONLINE Cover
ONLINE Article
Evernote in Links Roundup (Blog)
Complementary apps
• Skitch: annotate images• Clearly: takes ads out of webpage you are
reading.• Evernote has a similar plugin for Outlook that
lets you clip emails into Evernote.• Check the Evernote Trunk for many more
How will you use it?
Contact Us!
• Mary Axford– [email protected]
• Crystal Renfro– [email protected]
• Academic PKM blog– http://academicpkm.org