• What Is Evernote
• What Is Evernote And Do I Need It
• What Is Evernote
• What Is Evernote 5
• What Is Evernote Program
• What Is Evernote 5.2

27 Oct 2011

I downloaded Evernote just yesterday and get the same tab at the bottom of my page 'Evernote Extension Addon' from Evernote Corporation - requesting I click either the enable or don't enable. My PC is running on Window's Vista (business). The pop up come up with my Internet Explorer. I would like to know which is recommended. Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A 'note' can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten 'ink' note. Notes can also have file attachments.

Drag any often used note (to-do list, train schedule, etc) to the favorites bar for a shortcut directly to the note.

Evernote is a platform that allows you to take all kinds of notes. It’s also a great place to start writing if you’d like a clean, easily-accessible interface. Using Evernote also can help you stay organized so you can juggle and locate multiple writing projects at once. Where to use it: evernote.com. Evernote is an app designed for note taking, organizing, task management, and archiving. It is developed by the Evernote Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The app allows users to create notes, which can be text, drawings, photographs, audio, or saved web content.

If you find yourself searching for a particular note multiple times a day, this is a great way to keep it easily accessible.

*Note: this feature is currently only available on Evernote for the Mac for users with the latest version of Evernote and Lion OSX.

11 Oct 2011

Get version control over your notes with the note history feature. If you or someone you’re sharing a notebook with makes a change to a note you don’t, like you can easilly roll back to a previously synced note using the note history feature. This feature is only available to Premium users. Check out our complete list premium features here.

Several times each day Evernote will check to see if any notes have changed. If they have, it’ll make a new snapshot of those notes and add them to your Note History stored on our servers.

30 Sep 2011

Add any file you’re working on to your Evernote account. We’ll back it up and make it available on any computer or device you use, wherever you are.

• Mac: (shown above) drag a file into a note or onto the Evernote dock icon or use the File->Attach File menu option.
• Windows: Drag a file in a note or right click in a note and choose the File option.
• Evernote Web: Edit a note, then drag file onto the note header or click the paperclip icon.

24 Aug 2011

Remember your perfect monitor display settings in Evernote.

After you get your monitor setup just the way you like, take a screenshot and add it to Evernote so you will always have it. If you accidentally change the settings, switch monitors or reconfigure your setup you can easily reference the note.

15 Jul 2011

Share Google+ Content Directly Into Evernote

All of your friends on Google+ are sharing tons of great content. Sometimes you want to keep track of this content, so why not capture it directly into your Evernote account? Follow these simple steps to do just that…

09 May 2011

Take note of gift ideas in Evernote as they happen

When someone close to you subtly or not so subtly mentions a gift idea take note right away. Make a snapshot note, text note or voice note and tag it with “gift”, their name or both. When it comes time to pick the perfect gift you will have a list of great ideas to choose from.

18 Apr 2011

Keep track of all of your fitness goals and progress in Evernote. Each note automatically gets a date stamp, so you can easily go back and view what you were doing on a particular day.

15 Mar 2011

How to get the best Web Clips with Evernote.

When you come across something on the internet (text, images, or both), first highlight the portion you want to capture, then click on the Evernote clipper installed in your browser. This will ensure you’re only clipping the portions you want, without any of the extras.

*Evernote has clippers available for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer

09 Mar 2011

Keep track of all of your great ideas in Evernote. If you have an idea, capture it right away with a voice note, snapshot note or text note using Evernote on your phone or computer.

26 Jan 2011

Premium Tip: Note history

Evernote premium users get access to their note history. Evernote makes a copy of any notes in your account that have changed since the last time the system checked. Several times each day Evernote will check to see if any notes have changed. If they have, it’ll make a new snapshot of those notes and make them available in your note history.

Click here for more details

14 Jan 2011

If you’re new to Evernote or know someone that is. You can check out our brand new Getting Started Guide to get you going: Getting Started With Evernote

04 Jan 2011

How to Save Holiday Receipts, Warranties and Find Lost Manuals

Once you have an Evernote account, log in and create a folder called “Holiday 2010,” which is where you’ll keep all of the important information for the gifts you’ve received.Since almost any warranty will require a receipt or a gift receipt, the next thing you need to do is scan or take pictures of all your receipts and warranty info as well as the actual items. Type in the name of the item as the note title and save the note.

Source: Wallet Pop

20 Dec 2010

Evernote Tips for Freelancers

Clients- Once you land the new client, you can set up a new notebook for them. From that point on, any new information can go into that notebook with tags.

• Tag with the person you talked to
• Each client has a notebook
• Each project has a tag and or notebook
• Meeting notes

Source: Untethered Office

10 Dec 2010

Are your notes in sync?

If you are adding content to the Evernote desktop and need it to be available on your other devices right away, be sure to hit the sync button before you close Evernote. You can hit the sync button at any time to force sync your account by simply clicking on the sync button.

*Evernote for desktop automatically syncs on its own every few minutes. This is the default setting, to change this go to Preferences>Sync - then select the preferred interval from the drop down menu.

08 Dec 2010

Premium Tip: Get super sized upload limits with Evernote Premium. When you upgrade your account you get 500mb of uploads each month. That’s a whole lot of high-res images, files and web clips.

Even if you’ve never used it, you’ve probably heard of Evernote. It’s a note-taking app that can help you organize your digital life, and it’s been around since 2004. You can use Evernote to take notes, organize your files, and take clippings and snippets from virtually anywhere on the web.

But is Evernote any good? What does Evernote do well? Where does it fall short? Should you subscribe to Evernote?

We’ll be answering those questions in this review. We’ll take a look at Evernote’s core functionality and provide a rating for each of its main features before giving it an overall rating.

First, let’s take a look at exactly what Evernote does and how well it does it.

Note-Taking in Evernote: B-

As a note-taking app, it’s not exactly surprising that Evernote’s greatest strength and primary focus is note-taking.

Evernote’s default organizational schema relies on the convention of Notes and Notebooks. Individual files are saved in Notes, which can then be organized into thematic Notebooks. Multiple Notebooks can be combined to create Notebook Stacks. It’s that simple.

But as straightforward as Evernote’s organizational structure may be, actually taking notes in Evernote isn’t as good as it could be.

On both desktop and mobile, Evernote’s UI is clean and makes use of familiar icons to indicate the tool’s core functions. Here’s how it looks on desktop:

Clicking the “+” icon creates a new Note. Easy enough, right? Similarly, the button beneath the New Note button creates a New Meeting Note—but Evernote fails to tell or show us the difference between a regular Note and a Meeting Note. Presumably, a Meeting Note is a template for taking minutes during meetings, but we shouldn’t be left to guess what this is.

The same goes for the “Work Chat” button below the Search icon. Hover over it and you’ll see the “Work Chat” label. But click on it, and it expands into a new pane that describes the button as the Sharing button. Which is it? If you’re coming to Evernote expecting Slack-like features, prepare to be disappointed.

Evernote’s UI could certainly do with a refresh. But one of Evernote’s most useful note-taking features is the app’s template gallery. Evernote comes with dozens of note templates split across three main categories: For Work, For School, and For Life. These templates help you take notes quickly. Sample templates include personal planners, calendars, meeting agendas, blog-post worksheets, habit trackers, and more. There are even templates for David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity methodology, if you’re into that.

As we pointed out in our comparison of Evernote and Notion, Evernote makes it quick and easy to create text-based notes on the fly. However, it lacks a default naming convention for new Notes. If you’re the kind of person who makes dozens of little notes to yourself throughout the day, it won’t take long before your Evernote is full of Untitled Notes. This can quickly become counterproductive and tedious.

One aspect of Evernote’s desktop app that some users may find annoying is that it does not allow you to resize the primary pane. With so many tools allowing users to customize their workspace, the fact that Evernote doesn’t feels weirdly restrictive for little apparent reason. Not the biggest deal, but an annoyance for sure.

Search in Evernote: A-

Evernote’s search functionality is very impressive.

For starters, Evernote boasts very strong optical character recognition (OCR) technology. (That’s not surprising, once you learn that Evernote founder Stepan Pachikov created Paragraph, an OCR system that Apple acquired and implemented into its Newton handheld computer in the late 1980s.) That means that Evernote can effectively search scanned images of handwriting as quickly as it can search typewritten notes.

Evernote’s OCR is very accurate and can effectively recognize even words written in sloppy cursive handwriting. That is great news for users who like to digitize handwritten notes instead of creating digital ones. Evernote can recognize 28 different typewritten and 11 handwritten languages. It can also scan uploaded images and photos for handwriting to recognize—think pictures of whiteboards or photos of handwritten Post-it Notes, for example.

The other aspects of Evernote’s search capabilities are also very strong. Evernote has a diverse range of advanced modifiers and its own search syntax, which makes finding stuff much easier. Evernote can also search for text strings across a wide range of document formats, including Microsoft Office files and PDFs. Unfortunately, that feature is restricted to Evernote’s Premium and Business plans. You can search by the date a Note was created, or even the location where it was created.

One area where Evernote’s search function—and the tool as a whole—falls short is how well it runs. Even searching for simple strings on desktop can quickly bog down Evernote to the point of having to force-quit the application. This has been a persistent problem with Evernote for a long time, particularly on mobile. For an app that wants to help people remember everything, this is a pretty glaring issue.

Web Clipping in Evernote: A

Evernote’s Web Clipper is arguably one of the tool’s most useful and popular features. Evernote’s Clipper is like bookmarks on steroids.

Web Clipper, which is also available as a stand-alone extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, lets you “clip” elements from a webpage to Evernote. You can clip almost anything: paragraphs of text, images, even entire webpages.

Web Clipper also allows you to specify whether it should preserve webpages exactly as they appear when clipping, or just a “simplified” version of a page. Simplified clipped pages strip away all of the images, special formatting, and even ads from a page. This makes Web Clipper an invaluable tool for serious research projects. Clipped items are categorized and stored just like regular Notes. That means they can also be searched like regular Notes—again, very handy for larger projects.

Clipped items can also be annotated in Evernote. For example, you could clip a webpage of a breaking news story that’s relevant to your business and then add your comments to the story before sharing it with a colleague. You can add highlights to draw attention to specific parts of a clipping.

One of the biggest selling points of Web Clipper is that once an item has been clipped and saved, it will be preserved in Evernote until you decide you no longer want it. Clipped items, links, and pages will all be preserved, even if the live pages or links break.

Evernote does a fairly decent job of “guessing” where clipped items should be stored. In addition to Recent Notebooks, Web Clipper will also suggest potential Notebooks where saved items should be stored. This feature doesn’t work perfectly every time, but it’s accurate enough to be a worthwhile addition.

What Is Evernote

Collaborating in Evernote: D

For years, Evernote has tried to break its way into the workplace. Unfortunately for Evernote, there’s just no reason to bring it to work with you.

Evernote’s attempt to appeal to the work-based productivity crowd essentially involved the creation of a Slack clone called Spaces. It looks like Slack, works like Slack, and feels like Slack—well, almost. Spaces even copied Slack’s UI (but not the fun colors).

Spaces is a perfectly fine feature; there’s just no reason to use it instead of Slack. Even Spaces’ page on Evernote’s website seems to struggle to find a reason to use it. Evernote says, “Every member of a space has access to everything in the space. So the information you need is easily accessible and always at your fingertips.”

Isn’t that the absolute bare minimum you’d expect from a work-based collaboration product?

Unfortunately, a lack of imagination isn’t Spaces’ biggest flaw. The feature also lacks much of the functionality that teams need to collaborate effectively. Incredibly, Spaces doesn’t allow users to comment on Notes. Two people cannot edit the same Note simultaneously. There’s no way to see who’s editing what. Spaces isn’t even properly integrated with Evernote’s Work Chat.

These shortcomings aren’t just disappointing—it’s amazing that Evernote would release a collaboration product that doesn’t allow people to actually collaborate on anything.

Evernote has made more than its share of mistakes in recent years, but Spaces is one of the biggest disappointments. Even if Spaces could match Slack in terms of functionality, it would still be a tough sell, unless everyone on your team was using it. With so many critical features missing, it’s hard to see Spaces as anything but an attempted cash-grab.

Integrations in Evernote: A-

One of Evernote’s major selling points is its many integrations with popular software products.

What Is Evernote And Do I Need It

Evernote offers add-ons and plugins to integrate with a wide range of software tools you’re probably using at home and at work. Evernote offers integrations with both Gmail and Outlook, which is a big plus. You can also connect Evernote to Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, and Slack.

Although Evernote offers plenty of integrations with popular tools, they aren’t available to everyone. The most useful features of some integrations—including the Outlook, Google Drive, Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams integrations—are only available to Business subscribers. That makes sense as an incentive to upgrade, but it’s still frustrating.

Overall, integrations are one of Evernote’s stronger points. It’s just a shame that their more helpful functionality isn’t available to more users.

Evernote Pricing: D-

Now that we’ve looked at Evernote’s core features, it’s time to talk pricing.

Put bluntly, Evernote is expensive for what it offers. Yes, Evernote does have a free version. But its limitations can feel pretty punishing at times.

Evernote’s Free plan offers no integrations at all. Users of the Free plan can’t digitize business cards or create contact notes, either. There’s also a 60MB—yes, megabyte—upload limit on clipped items. If you’re planning on using Evernote to help with a major research project, you’ll hit this restriction very quickly. In short, the Free plan is fine if you need a bare-bones note-taking app and little else.

Evernote’s Premium plan costs $7.99 per month. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s hard to justify spending almost $100 a year on Evernote when competing apps like Notion and OneNote offer so much more for free. Then there’s the issue of Evernote’s many bugs and stability problems. Evernote certainly doesn’t feel like a premium software product.

However, the pricing for Evernote’s Business plan is even harder to justify. Evernote Business costs $14.99 per user, per month, with a minimum of two Business users per subscription. That’s pretty steep for a supposedly collaborative product with very few collaborative features.

What Is Evernote

On the surface, Evernote’s pricing appears to align with other similar software products on the market. But once you start comparing Evernote’s functionality to other products and look at their pricing, it gets harder and harder to recommend Evernote.

Evernote’s Overall Grade: C-

What Is Evernote 5

If we had evaluated Evernote 10 years ago, this review would have been very different.

What Is Evernote Program

It would have been much easier to recommend Evernote before it underwent its radical pricing restructure. Some might argue that Evernote gave far too much away with its freemium product, which “spoiled” the product’s early adopters. But the emergence of competing tools such as Notion and OneNote makes it even harder to endorse Evernote.

What Is Evernote 5.2

It’s a real shame to see a formerly beloved software product fall from grace the way Evernote has. Evernote isn’t a bad product. It does some things very well, arguably better than any other product on the market. It just doesn’t do enough things well enough to warrant the price.