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It is Francesco here and welcome back to another video in today's video
I'll be diving into why I believe Evernote still rocks and why I think it's the best
Filing cabinet in the world. So let's dive into today's video
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Which I'm really excited for so you're probably wondering the topic of this video best filing cabinet
Now this is actually something that someone put in the comments. I actually really appreciated somebody putting that there because it really helped me
reframe
Evernote as a
total because I was really viewing it for me at least as a
Note taking application and for me I wasn't using it as a note taking application
So I I really found it hard to be able to call it that myself
and that's for my own use, but filing cabinet is a great way and
Demonstration to use it it's something that Steve dotto actually touched on when we did a video about it
he actually referenced it is what's called a legacy application an
Application you had to use for this sake of using it forced to Evernote is blessed. They've got people who have
their life's work
Invested in Evernote store to never know so those people aren't gonna go anywhere. Nonetheless Evernote goes away
It's too much effort for them to move
But they run the risk of becoming the app
That we use because we have to use not because we want to use and I think they're well down that path unless they change
soon
And
That's very much how I'm using it these days
actually
I
really like using it but the issue is is I always have to use it in a sense because I
Want to be able to store all my stuff there, but it's not necessarily the best and user experience at the moment at least
The first of those features is the notebook
organization now
I think organizing your notebooks is a really nice demonstration
Of why it is the best filing cabinet in the world. I really like how you could organize them in stacks
I also like how you can apply tags to them as well
But what it reminds me of it reminds me of that traditional filing cabinet setup
Which a lot of people use in the office it reminds me whenever I use it
at least I view it in list view so I can scroll through all of the different notebooks that I have and
I can take full advantage of the notebook organization. I think it's very similar to how our
Minds are organized as well
although to some extent I do think the way that notion is set up is
more the way our brains think I think it's definitely still a
Really useful way to organize all of your notebooks
Now the second killer feature inside of Evernote
Which makes it so valuable and definitely has helped me in the last couple of months at least is the search
functionality now the search is so advanced it can pick up anything from handwriting to what's inside of Word documents or PDFs and
it's really really helpful when you're searching for a very specific note or
File that you've made a long long time ago and this has definitely been very much my experience the last couple of months
I've been saving things like receipts into it and also useful documents like
Electorial information government information things like that that I can file and find for later
Really easily using the search function now
This actually has even made me not in the last three months really paid much attention to organizing stuff in files now
I definitely have dumped a lot of stuff in inbox, but I haven't really made a
His effort to really spend more time organizing it
However this week I do plan on doing how I use Evernote video
which should hopefully allude to how I'm currently using it and taking advantage of
The application in making it the best filing cabinet out there
so there's two more features that I really like the third is the Clipper abilities now if you compare the Clipper abilities
To say notion. It's really
uncompelled
Way to clip links and obviously when you save that link into notion
Notion doesn't really do too much with it. Its Clipper abilities of really basic for now, but Evernote is an
Absolute sweet spot. They've done such a great job with being able to create this clipper that allows you to do
really great things with it like
scream shot and annotate be able to tag stuff be able to put it in a relevant notebook and also
You know bookmark and turn into different formats, for example, you know simplified note
which is something a lot of people like simplified article and
You know, you're really taking a step further
Especially when it comes to research and I always point people to do that when using it for research purposes
Okay, number four and what I would say is the key feature for me is document scanning
I still absolutely love evidence inbuilt camera
I don't actually use scannable but it is available and I do recommend using it the document scanner in sign of Evernote works like a
Dream and it captured stuff perfectly and what I particularly like about it as well is for example
You want to crop the corners in you can do have a certain?
Document and it is actually really accurate and you can actually change it in two different formats like color document or black and white
document I've been using this one for
Years, and I love capturing
Receipts in it because it can be done in like five minutes and and then I can go onto the platform and convert that
Receipt into a PDF which I then can upload to my accountant
anyway, guys, I'll talk to that about that in the how I use Evernote video, but when you look at applications like notion like
It's good, but there's zero document scanning abilities, which is a main reason. I don't live files to notion
I'll talk about more about that in the eminent versus notional video. We're hopefully releasing this week
So obviously guys a lot of people ask me like why have I changed my tune on Evernote
and I guess the reason is because I
Neglected it as a tool over a period of time because of all of the death spiral news
Even I haven't been in touch runner thing
but I just feel like I should cover it still because I still think it is and
The way that someone helped me phrase it the best filing cabinet for me and and that leads me on to my final question
which a lot of people probably asking
Now the final question is why not use something like Dropbox or Google Drive now
I actually use Google Drive as my platform to store stuff
I really love Google Drive been using it since the school days and I find it a great way to upload large files
Create collaborative documents and also be able to create spreadsheets
occasionally
Really only for specific use like for example if I'm actually sharing it and I don't necessarily wanna invite someone to a new notion page
so I do use Google Drive and I find it a really valuable experience for organizing most of my work and
I still use things like the power method to organize that although it has recently been a very sloppy
Organization, which I definitely need to clean up
But as you can imagine, I'm referencing Evernote as a best filing cabinet
But a filing cabinet per se could be a storage platform like Dropbox or Google Drive
So the way that I see it for me is Google Drive is for large files and creating documents that are collaborative
Because the editing abilities in Google Drive are very Universal and allow you to share with other people
Whereas I see Evernote as a way to clip documents easy to access files that I can share with other people
very easily but also that I can quickly access on my mobile when I'm on the go and
I use notion like more of a brain be able to
see what is going on in terms of my current activities of
projects and goals and things like that
So guys I am planning to do a Evernote how I use that
Hopefully in the next day or two and then we're going to put together a Evernote vs. Notion future
2019 at which I'm going to be talking more about the traditional uses of Evernote and
Where and how you can apply it? Because a lot of people having that question at the moment. Should I be using notion and
There's a use case for both of them and I think you can use them together like I do
But in the same case, I don't want to make it too over complicated
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