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A Handy Index to All My Evernote Posts

I have been writing for a while now about Evernote, the software that turns your computer into a digital brain. It allows you to remember everything. Literally.

Yesterday, someone asked me if I had a list of all my blog posts I’d written on this topic. Sadly, I had to admit that I didn’t. The best I could do was point them to my blog’s search engine.

So I decided to pull together this list of all my posts, to make it easier for those who want to get up-to-speed fast. Also, I have decided to call this series, “Evernote for Busy Leaders.” If I write additional posts, I will include them here.

If you are just getting started with Evernote, I suggest that you buy Brett Kelly’s remarkably practical e-book, Evernote Essentials, Second Edition. It is worth setting aside a couple hours to work through this brief, 95-page book. It will save you DAYS of learning Evernote on your own.
  1. How to Organize Evernote for Maximum Efficiency
  2. How to Use Evernote If You Are a Speaker or Writer
  3. How to Use Evernote with a Traditional Paper Notebook
  4. How to Use Evernote with an iPad to Take Meeting Notes
  5. How to Email Your Documents Directly to Evernote
  6. How to Scan Documents Directly into Evernote
  7. How to Get Your Stuff into Evernote
  8. Is Your Data Safe in Evernote?
  9. How to Use Evernote as a Blogger
  10. How to Find Your Stuff in Evernote
  11. 7 Evernote Resources You May Not Know About
  12. How to Get Your Kindle Highlights into Evernote
Question: What am I missing? What else do I need to cover with regard to Evernote? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
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Posted on August 6, 2011

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  • http://www.lionstand.com Jamie (Lionstand)

    Thanks for this Mike,

    Just yesterday I told a friend of mine to go to your blog to learn more about Evernote. You’ve just made that easier for him to learn more about it.

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Thanks, Jamie.

      • http://www.lionstand.com Jamie (Lionstand)

        You’re welcome.

  • Anonymous

    I learned about Evernote through one of your posts and I have really loved using it. I also have it on my phone. It is a great tool for me to capture my thoughts. 

  • http://www.nextgenerationchiropractor.com/ Dr. Patrick MacNamara

    I’ve been using Evernote since 2008. Nevertheless, I’ve learned some nifty tricks through your series.

    My favorite?

    How to Get Your Kindle Highlights into Evernote

    That saved me tons of time putting together my most recent presentation.

    Thanks, Michael, for always providing enormous value in every post!

    • http://twitter.com/jmhardy98 Jim Hardy

      I agree and with every post, I learn a new practice that allows me to be more productive.

      Jim

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the recommendation on Evernote. I recently switched to a DROIDX 2 compliments of Verizon wireless, and downloaded the app. It has already made my life so much easier. I am looking forward to using it in a few weeks at.the women of faith conference, Indianapolis. I am reading all of your posts so I will be able to use EN efficiently.
    I appreciate all that you do:)
    Pamela

  • http://KnowtheNetwork.com Keith

    Well you’ve been faithful at tagging them with “Evernote” so I’ve always linked to the tag. I suggest your Evernote articles often. They are appreciated and now all in one place.

  • Steve Decker

    I’m somewhat of a novice to all of this.   I just noticed someone mentioned you’ve been tagging your evernote posts and they can be accessed this way. How do I do that?

    I was just thinking yesterday that I wish I could easily access all of your posts on various subjects – Seth Godin, life planning, twitter, etc.  Will you be making this easier?  Can I already access these by topic through  the tagging  tool?

  • Joe Lalonde

    Nice Michael! Thanks for putting them all in one place. Now I can provide others a link to this post when I talk about Evernote to them.

  • http://www.jeubfamily.com Chris Jeub

    I’ve been very much enjoying Evernote for the past few weeks. I was surprised at how easy it was to jump into it and start pulling together my notes.

    I have noticed one awkward thing. Cut-n-pasting lists is cumbersome. Do you have the same problem? Example: cut-n-pasting a bullet to a different bullet knocks the alignment off. I typically type a new bullet to adjust, but I wish it would just cut-n-paste.

    • http://twitter.com/jmhardy98 Jim Hardy

      Yes, just put it on your bar and then you can just clip it to your notes. It is a great tool and it will save you a lot of time.

      Jim

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Agreed. I think the Evernote editor needs some work.

  • http://www.tnealtarver.wordpress.com TNeal

    Mike, I’ve appreciated your connecting me with this resource. I use Evernote all the time. My latest switch was to keep track of my baseball autographs, who signed what. If I take notes, I find them easier to locate in Evernote. It’s just a great resource.–Tom

  • Jeanne Doyon

    Hi Michael,
     
    Do you use the free version of Evernote, or the full version? Are their differences you can comment on and advise about?
     
    I have OneNote on my computer but haven’t tried to figure it out yet. I understand from your posts that Evernote is more user friendly. I would like to explore this–maybe I will download Evernote to use instead.
     
    Jeanne

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Jeanne, I use the Premium version. Here’s a comparison chart. The main benefits to me are: searchable PDFs and file synchronization of any file type. Hope that helps.

      • Jeanne Doyon

        Thanks, Michael. I will take a look at that.

        Jeanne

        • http://twitter.com/jmhardy98 Jim Hardy

          Jeanne,

          upon Michael’e advice on a previous post, I subscribe to the Premium version. It is very useful. I do not think you will regret using it. It is worth the money in time savings.

          JIm

  • http://roborr.net Rob Orr

    This was a really great idea for a post Michael – I refer friends and clients here regularly to get to the bottom of the best ways to make use of Evernote, and I find myself going back to these posts  from time to time myself. Clipped and archived in to my reference notebook!

  • http://profiles.google.com/bluefrog419 Eric Boyd

    Michael – I would enjoy seeing all of your EN posts as a public EN notebook we could access.
    Further, any help in discovering & connecting to public notebooks would be a nice addition. Thanks!

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Thanks for the suggestion.

  • http://twitter.com/jmhardy98 Jim Hardy

    I have read the Evernote essentials book and it is a great resource. I would encourage everyone to get a copy.

    Jim

  • http://uma-maheswaran.blogspot.com/ Uma Maheswaran S

    Mike! Thanks for the index.  And thanks for your encouragement to go paperless!

  • Anonymous

    Trying my hand at Evernote for my mac. Thanks for sharing this today. Anything that can help organize and simplify. <– my two words for the year!

    Have a great Sunday afternoon,
    Kennisha

  • http://bit.ly/brandonrobbins Brandon Robbins

    I was struggling with how to organize everything in Evernote in a way that made the most sense. The How to Organize Evernote for Maximum Efficiency post was very beneficial. In fact, all of these posts are very helpful. Thanks, Mike!

  • http://www.forward-living.com W. Mark Thompson

    Great question you go there. Great answer with a great list! GREAT!!  :)

  • Josh Fischer

    Hi Michael, thanks so much for your post’s you have been a great help to me utilizing evernote and exploring deeper into my personal growth.  I would love to hear your opinion on how you utilize tags and naming documents in evernote.  Also a great one would be how you(or others) could go totally paperless or as close as one could by utilizing evernote and the tools needed or utilized to do so. Thank you again look forward to hearing more.

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Thanks for your input, Josh. I will consider that.

  • Josh Fischer

    Hahaha You already did all that….Maybe just updates then.  Any idea’s on a service that could dictate speech to text on the fly…

  • http://somewiseguy.com ThatGuyKC

    Haha! You read my mind. I was just hoping you’d have a compiled list of your Evernote posts. I’m tweeting this out and forwarding via email to some colleagues who desperately need to drink the Evernote kool-aid. :)

  • Anonymous

    I downloaded Evernote more than a year ago, but didn’t like it too much. I didn’t understand it’s true purpose.

    Since starting a new contract job, I’ve been using it and love the sync feature between iPhone and Mac plus the cloud.

    I was told by someone that it makes a great task manager/to-do list. 

    I love Evernote and use it every day, but still haven’t figured out a good way to use it as a task manager. Was I misinformed? Any ideas on where to point me for a solution?

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      I personally don’t think it’s a great choice for a task manager. You can make it work, just like you can make Word or Excel serve as a task manager. But in my opinion, it is the wrong tool for the job. I prefer Nozbe. I have been using it for about a year.

  • Perry Emerick

    Hey Micheal, I have really appreciated your tips and tools for Evernote.
    I have been trying to figure out a way to use it for an inventory tool.
    In my research I stumbled onto note linking and found a forum post
    where a guy explained the way he used it. I have been trying it out and though you might find it useful, and maybe something to share as part of your blog. You can read it here – http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=28115&p=119156#p119156

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  • http://twitter.com/jessepassafiume Jesse Passafiume

    Michael, 

    I wanted to thank you for the Evernote information.  It is one of those rare products in life that actually produces an ROI immediately.    Keep the information coming! 

    Jesse

  • Darrell West

    Thanks for sharing this summary. I have been using Evernote about two weeks thanks to you. I am very impressed with how easy it is making my transition away from all the “pieces of paper” I seem to collect on a daily basis. I no longer have to print out blog posts or documents that can easily be clipped and saved electronically.

    Coupled with “Read It Later”, it has been a great addition. I have also introduced several friends to Evernote.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bluefrog419 Eric Boyd

    Michael – Realized today that you may want to add your post about getting your Ecosystem Journals (and why you dropped Moleskine) to this list too.

    http://michaelhyatt.com/why-i-ditched-my-moleskine-journal.html

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  • http://www.forward-living.com W. Mark Thompson

    Growing into Evernote. Got notification about some great updates they’re implementing. One in particular looks exciting: “There’s rich text support, shared Notebooks and a whole new
    experience for Mac Lion. Evernote for iOS and Mac get a major upgrade.” Evernote is ever-growing!

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  • http://twitter.com/fotofah Dennis Fahringer

    Since last night (Sept. 2), v2 of Brett Kelly’s Evernote Essentials ebook is out. That’s now 95 pages. It’s free for those with the first edition, and 20% off for those who buy it before Fri., Sept. 9. It’s great info and pretty much the only book out on using Evernote effectively. 

    More info at: http://bit.ly/nddunJ

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  • http://twitter.com/jbradshaw80 Jonathan Bradshaw

    Michael. Do you use the free or premium version of Evernote?

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Premium.

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  • Lorilipsky

    You’ve made things simpler by assembling this Evernote series for your readers. I appreciate your help.

    You helped me get started on Twitter, helped me in purchasing web domains and now it’s time for Evernote. 

    Thank you.

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Awesome. Evernote is still one of my favorite tools.

  • Matt Ruff

    The book simple cost to much $5 or maybe $10 but $25 it simple over priced

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      I think it comes down to what your time is worth. If you make $20 per hour, and it will save you two hours of learning on your own, then it is a bargain. It would have been worth it to me at twice the cost.

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  • http://www.itsworthnoting.com Levi Smith

    Seeing comments about Evernote not being a great task manager, which I would agree with, some may want to consider Springpad. I use both Evernote and Springpad, but have found myself using Springpad everyday and Evernote only occasionally when I need lengthy or rich text notes or need to scan something for filing. Here’s a comparison table I posted: http://itswn.us/ssNXoR

    • http://michaelhyatt.com Michael Hyatt

      Thanks for sharing this comparison. Unfortunately, I just checked SpringPad, and it says the site is temporarily unavailable. I don’t know if this happens often, but this would be alarming to me if I relied on this as I do Evernote.

      • http://www.itsworthnoting.com Levi Smith

        They’ve only been down for me no more than a few minutes maybe every other month. Like Evernote, it’s a cloud based service so occasionally there’s a disruption. Unlike Evernote, Springpad doesn’t offer a desktop app so if the site is down your only options are mobile devices or the chrome offline browser extension, both of which sync your data and allow offline access. I’m hoping Springpad adds desktop apps soon.
        Levi

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