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
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