So you've heard about this amazing tool to help you "remember everything", but you're simply not sure how it could really impact your life? Well, there are a plethora of features that make using Evernote truly awesome for entrepreneurs, C-level executives, busy professionals, small business managers and the like. Here are just a few examples of its amazing features:
1. While the most basic
note in your Evernote database will consist merely of only typed text, each note can be much more complex, having options for including stored documents, recorded audio or video, captured photographs, web clippings and tasks with reminders. Solely your creativity can limit your options for notes to be included in your database.
2. Evernote users can create an unlimited number of
notebooks in which to organize their notes, containing an unlimited number of notes in each notebook. Then, notebooks can be combined into what's known as
stacked notebooks, providing limitless options for organizing all of one's saved content.
3.
Tags allow one more level of filtering to find exactly what you need when you need that specific information. While no note requires a tag, such categories can be helpful when grouping notes from different notebooks or if you'll be searching for a note by a term not included in that note's contents.
4. Speaking of searching for any given note, it is Evernote's
search capabilities that truly separate this tool from its competition. The search feature combs through not only notes' titles and the notebooks' names in which those notes are stored, but it also seeks a match in all typed or photographed text in each note's body as well as in any associated tags or URLs from which content was clipped.
5.
Sharing notebooks supports collaboration as users can manage projects with team members in different places or communicate information with clients while not working in a face-to-face or side-by-side scenario.
6. Likewise, users are able to
share individual notes via a link on Facebook, a link on Twitter, in an email or saved as a URL copied to a computer's clipboard.
7. Evernote offers a
multitude of methods for creating notes... Every account is assigned its own email address, and each email sent to it creates a new note. Content can be clipped from various different web browsers as each clipping creates a new note. And content tweeted to @myEN subsequently creates a note, too.
8. As one's database grows, the
convenience of easily editing notes' content allows each user's Evernote account to evolve with that individual's needs.
9. To enhance the ease of editing, Evernote added the Skitch feature so users can
add annotations to any notes that contain images, which includes options for arrows, stamps, text, shape overlays, highlighting and more.
10. Furthermore, users are able to
merge social media connections and related notes based off any interactions with those individuals in scans of business cards or manually uploaded contacts via Evernote's acquisition of Hello.
11. As
reminders can be attached to each note, including an alert based off any specified date and time, Evernote allows for task and project management.
12. Evernote's
ubiquity empowers users with the capacity of accessing the same information everywhere at the same time as it syncs "real time" between all devices on which the user has included the tool.
13. Via its "trunk", Evernote
integrates with TONS of different partners.
14. Based off its desire to be "the permanent, trusted and ubiquitous place for all memories", Evernote holds fast to three rules:
your date is yours, your data is protected and your data is portable.
15. While there are enhancements available for a small fee in the Premium version or for enterprise users in the Business version, most functionality offered by Evernote is included for
free, which might be the best feature of all.
Want to learn more, including step-by-step instructions on setting up and best utilizing your account? You're in luck... A new offering of Emily's
"Using Evernote to Remember Everything - Evernote Basics" workshop has been added at 3-5pm TOMORROW, and you can learn more or register now at
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