Evernote How to remember everything without having to keep it in your head.

Evernote

www.evernote.comHow to remember everything without

having to keep it in your head

I love their logo Create account

I’ll make a USBT account, but it’s cooler when you have your own account

This is what I did

But you could also copy and paste this in the confirmation code box

I clicked the link in the email to get here then I entered the usual password

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How to enter notes in Evernote

• There are 2 I use all the time:– Clip webpages• Copy URL into Evenote• Webclipper (yay!)

– New note text• And 2 or more that I never use:– Email notes ([email protected])– Scan notes– Something I don’t know about

Clipping webpages

When a bookmark is not enough

Let’s say you find something fascinating in our RSS reader

And you right click to open it in a new tab and you want to have it where you can easily find it

Open Evernote and make a new folder if you need one

1. And here’s your new notebook clicked on, open and ready to go

2. Click on New Note

Copy the URL of the webpage

Give your note a title

1. Copy the URL of the webpage

2. Give your note a title

4. Click Done and…

3. Add a few notes

And there it is

There is another way to clip entire webpages that requires a browser Add On

or in Chrome the Webclipper extensionWhen you get your Evernote account, look at the

Welcome to Evernote note

There are Evernote add-ons or extensions in most browsers and they are all tedious to install but wonderful

once they’re working. Like this:

Click here

We’re logged in

But if we weren’t logged in…

We would log inThen…

Choose your notebook

Then you have a choice:Clip full page or Clip URL

Activates the drop-down menu

Let’s clip the whole page

Click here

Back in Evernote you have the whole webpage with working links for the next time you need to look at it.

Evernote is a good note taking tool

I have this set on Auto Save (see upper right corner under Sign out)

Here’s what it looks like if you click on Auto Save to change it to manual Save Changes

I will now attempt, for the first time ever, to email a note to Evernote

It worked! And can now be edited like any other manually added note.

Sent remotely

If you ever lose the Evernote email address, or it’s reset due to spam, it’s in Settings on Evernote Web

You can email attachments to Evernote

And when you click on the attachment it opens and you can save it to your hard drive or…

Email it or another note from Evernote

And here it is in my USBT email with the attachment

Evernote does more than this, but this is all I’ve ever used it for

Actually, it’s a little more than I’ve ever used it for, so I learned something new

Questions? Ask Ginger