11 Nov 2013 Evernote briefing to NAPO-SA

1. Evernote... Simplified
Daniel Hayes
@DanielHayes
SimpleLifeTogether.com

2. Overview
• What is Evernote and Why I Love It?
• Evernote Basics
• A “Windshield Tour”
• Evernote Power User Tips
• Expanding Your Busine$$ Using
Evernote

3. What is Evernote
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• How?
• Capture
• Contain
• Access
• Share
Described as your "external brain"

4. What is Evernote
• Evernote Premium
• $5 per month or $45 per year
• What’s the difference?
• Increased ability to share
• Bigger file sizes
• Faster OCR function. More on that soon
• Some interesting add-ons such as text-to-
speech, note history and presentation view

5. Why I Love Evernote
• Ubiquitous capture!
How ubiquitous? Crazy
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ubiquitous!
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Desktop, Web, Apps

6. Why I Love Evernote
• A 100-year company
There’s a community!
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• Security Concerns?
3Laws of Data Protection
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7. Evernote Basics
Capture
• Type in text...Record your voice
Dragging in files...Email into account
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• Take pics...Scan in...Web Clipper
• Even automated ways...I’ll cover in
advanced

8. Evernote Basics
Contain
• Notes: Evernote is centered around Notes
• Get info into Notes (type, drag, email, etc)
• Notebooks: Collections of Notes (Up to 250)
• Tags: Up to 100k!

9. Evernote Basics
Contain Cont’d
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• Notebooks = Houses in the town
Notes = People in the houses
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• Tags = Relationships people have
Town = Evernote Database

10. Evernote Basics
Access
• Access by Notebook, Note, Tag or Location!
• I’ll demo that in a few minutes
• Access by Searching
• OCR can be your best friend!
• Think Keywords in Title, Text, and Tags

11. Evernote Basics
Sharing
• Share by Note
• Allow Editing or View Only
• Share by Notebook
• Make Notebook public
• You can stop sharing if you want, too!

12. Windshield Tour
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• Top to Bottom
Slight Differences Between
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Left to Right
Mac and PC

13. Power User Tips
• Web Clipper…I Prefer Chrome
• PDFs in Notes, In-Line or File Attachment
• Emailing Into Evernote Notebooks/Tags
• @Notebook #Tag
• Go Light on Notebooks, Heavy on Keywords
• Stacking Notebooks

14. More Power User Tips
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• Punctuation in Notebook Names
• Scanning
Did I Mention Keywords?
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• Saved Searches
• Encryption
Tagging Tips

15. Other Products
• Hello
Evernote Food
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Skitch
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• Clearly
• “Secret Weapon” for GTD
IFTTT to Evernote Link
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16. Expand Your Busine$$
• Transfer Skills
• Helping Clients Go “Paperless”
• Digitize Records
• Manuals
• Storage/Packing List Options

17. Links
• Slides: SimpleLifeTogether.com/napo-sa
• Evernote Episodes:
• SimpleLifeTogether.com/017
• SimpleLifeTogether.com/018
• SimpleLifeTogether.com/qr

18. Evernote... Simplified
Daniel Hayes
@DanielHayes
SimpleLifeTogether.com