Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel, it is francesco here and today I am very lucky to be joined by
Steve Dotto. How are you Steve?
I'm just great francesco thrilled to be with you
Yeah, I mean say it. I think the last time we talked it was talking about the future of Evernote, which was quite fun
Well, yeah, somebody talked about Evernote
Yes, I in public. Yes. Yeah, which they've turned the corner
They've done that they've done a good job of kind of getting there getting there the train back on the tracks
Yeah, definitely
Like I think a lot of that behind the scenes videos have helped people sort of get a lot more understanding of what's coming
So a little bit a little more transparency is a good idea and also understanding the path
They're on yes, it's well, we we had a big decision pointed on our channel. We were
we decided we were on the horns of dilemma of whether or not we were going to refresh our
flagship course our Evernote made easy course and we chose to do that as a team and it was because of the you know,
Because they seem to have their house in order now. So that's that's good
it's it's exciting for us all and a relief because so many of us have so much invested in Evernote that
Making a change from it is scary. Yeah is yeah like eight years plus worth of data. It's mad innit
Yes. Yeah exactly
Yeah, and before we move on to some of the things you love about Evernote
Could you share more about the the course because I think if we look into so it dive into it
Well, I'm get you to share a link but it's yeah, it's it's a 10 part series called Evernote made easy
and it's basically walks you through the
Taking Evernote to the next level and I hate that term taken to the next level
but it is but the key to it actually is the Evernote QuickStart if you're just on the
so many people
try Evernote and
They don't succeed in using Evernote or they don't use it to its full potential because they over
Complicate things at the beginning. I think you'd agree. You know, they try and build this huge
Infrastructure around Evernote because they see so much potential and then they get analysis paralysis
So, you know should I have this notebook or that notebook?
Where am I gonna put this and they start building this tag infrastructure and it's a nightmare I teach in the very first lesson
I called Evernote QuickStart and I tell people not to make any notebooks just to take to create two very unique types of notes that
Really start you off on the right track, and we've had tremendous success that and that part of the course is free
So if you click on the link that Francesco shares with you, you can take the Evernote QuickStart
Which is about a half an hour?
Taking about a half an hour to go through and if you don't see the value of Evernote
Once you've gone through the QuickStart ever. No it's not for you
But if you do then you can either continue on yourself or you can upgrade and take I take our 10-part course and we'll help
You we'll kind of accelerate the process for you lovely jubbly, Berlin
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Damn I need to send over like a phrase book or something like that. Yeah winner winner chicken dinner
How's that when I win it? Yeah that one
Okay
But while we're losing this viewers by the score right now, maybe we should get to the content yeah, please yeah
Yeah, you're gonna share five things you love about
Avenue futures you asked me for a list you put me on the spot Francesco
Okay, well
I
still think that the one thing that Evernote has done better than anybody and nobody comes close as far as just like features that I
Love is the Evernote Web Clipper
Nobody has done the Web Clipper better and it's never better
Exemplified than when it breaks for some reason because there's new enough a new operating system or a new a new
browser update and the Evernote Web Clipper
Breaks briefly and they hue and cry from people who are so upset that it's not working
It tells you how much we rely on it
but I think a day doesn't go by that I don't clip something and
Save it in Evernote
And it doesn't in it in the way that I look at it is it's like this
investment tool because I look at Evernote as my digital bank account and the more
Information that I have there that I can access when I need it in the future
The more equity the more value there is and the Evernote Web Clipper is probably the number one way that I get information
Into Evernote. So the Web Clipper is my number one tool. They just everybody else has tried to do their own Web Clipper
Yeah, nobody's done it as elegantly as ever know. I agree with that
Yeah, like notions one is so basic compared to that one is it's always set the standard. Yeah, exactly
I mean keep Scott what everybody's got one but it just doesn't do whatever notes does so that's number one and I
kind of I'm themed up here in the first and my favorite features or I think ways to get information into Evernote because we know
Evernote so powerful in search so, you know getting access to your information is all great, but getting the information in effortlessly
That's a big deal and next to the Evernote Web Clipper the way that I get information into Evernote
the most is when I've got my mobile phone with me through the through the camera on my phone and I use the
third-party Evernote app because the Evernote app
Scannable it's not third parties from Evernote
Rather than just using the native camera that's built into Evernote. Although they both work exceptionally well
But I use that just as an information vacuum cleaner
constantly just pulling information and taking pictures of things and then storing them in Evernote so that I
Have access to them when I need them. So since canibal is very elegant. It's a great easy
I never use my flatbed scanner and more even if I have documents to scan in for the bank or for any personal information
I use scannable and the thing that's nice about
Scannable and as opposed to using the Evernote camera is scannable lets you choose at once you've scanned a document in
Whether or not you want to save it and Evernote, obviously
but also it makes it very easy for you to package it up and send it to people by email and to
to share that content in other places
So it's makes it a one-step process as opposed to if you use the Evernote camera capture
Document and you got to go into Evernote and share the document from within Evernote
So I like that's the reason that I like scannable. So that's the second thing from Evernote. That is my second favorite thing
Yeah, number three is something brand new for me and it's not really all that new but it's this guy
Have you seen this guy the rocket notebook?
I have you have seen it a couple of times shooting around that have you tried one? No, no
Yeah, like I I keep saying I'm like should I go? I love the rocket notebook
So here's that with the I could notebook was a Kickstarter project
And I first bought it in Kickstarter in the first version of it was ridiculous it you used. It's an erasable
notebook where you can write on it and use these pens from is it from who is it from it's from
pilot
As a pilot, I think it's pilot
Anyways, they're called yeah pilot. They're called fiction Fri x io n and it's an erasable ink, but the first version of it
You used to have to stick in the microwave to erase it
which was just
Really they had a microwavable version, which I thought was just just bizarre
Although it did make you feel a little bit like James Bond as you erase the content. Yeah new version
You couldn't take a damp cloth and you can wipe down the page
So it's fantastic from that perspective is that it's a recyclable notebook
But the key to it is they've got and I'll show you here because you can't see it in the bottom of the page
But they've got these. Uh, they've got this guide. I know if you can see this guy. Oh, yeah, I can see. Yeah
so what happens is the bottom of each page you've got these icons you tick off the icons and
Then they've got an app of the rocket book app. You launch the rocket book app
You take a picture of this of the notebook and based on the icon it then sends it to the integration
It'll send us a drop box and send with the Google Drive a specific a specific
notebook in Dropbox
It'll also send it to Evernote and you can get very granular down to adding tags or which notebook you're gonna be sending the information
To you have to send documents to slack or straight to email all of those things from the rocket book
so it it's it's it's like it to remember the
What was the name of the notebook the one that?
Fairly expensive notebook that you could scan it ever don't handle the stickers that you stuck on it. Oh a
Mouse can yeah. Yeah, so they had one but that was expensive, right?
you know cuz you had the stickers that were not here you just tick off the bottom where you want it to go the
Destination use the camera the cameras really slick almost as good as scannable as far as that goes
Automatically sees the screen and sends the information often Evernote. I love this for students for so many different purposes
It's a really cool system and it I can do probably 90% of what I can do on my tablet using the rocket book
So that is that's a winner winner chicken dinner. Yeah. Yeah, we did. That's lovely tell you guys. Yeah
Okay, well
I gotta find my notes because I wrote all my notes in it and that's where I have my list of top five nextstep
So that's rocket book
The next thing is I love the feature built into Evernote
where
When we think about how Evernote works the nature of the Evernote note because it's a cloud-based services
Every note actually has a web address attached to it
And if you turn on sharing for that note, you basically have a web page that's created
I love using Evernote as a publishing tool for publishing content gives sharing links
So when I'm working on projects with people I give them a checklist
I share it never note rather than using a Google Doc or other things
Just because it's so efficient within Evernote to do that
So I love using Evernote as a publishing tools as a matter of fact the first version of the course that we delivered I've ever
Not made it easy the first three versions until the most current one. We delivered it as a series of shared notes
we never even had an LMS or a learning management tool that we hosted we just when you signed up you've got an email every
Morning with a link. That's it
here's today's lesson and it was an Evernote note and you save that into your own notebook if you had an Evernote textbook at the
End Evernote is a very powerful
Publishing platform that most people don't realize even if you don't have your own website
You can publish content to the web share it in social media
'men tools that allow you to do blogging
directly from Evernote create an Evernote notebook if you save it as a tag for the blog it'll publish it to a
To a to a blog site for you so that I love Evernote's
Publishing capabilities as far as the sharing. I'm not talking about collaborative work, which is nice, but I'm talking about puron publishing from Evernote
Hidden feature that most people never use but I think is so powerful
And the final one is it's kind of lame, but it's the ubiquitous nature
it's the fact that everything is where it is when I need it and where I and
You know when you start using your mobile app?
and you just say I need access to this note or that note as you're going about and
Knowing as long as you have an internet connection that you have access to it
That is so powerful and it reduces stress so much because if you get into the habit of storing what your important content is in
Evernote
Then you always know where to put things so you're not making decisions
How am I gonna file this so I can find it again? Because you know, you can find it again in Evernote and
Secondly, it reduces stress when you need to fight it because you know it's there and if it's not there then you didn't save it
right
So you're just getting in that habit of having one place to go for everything?
That to me is is something that the ubiquitous nature of Evernote would be my kind of fifth on my list of favorite
Features that ever know your favorite benefits of Evernote. I love it and
I mean I'm talking to Francesco. My dog is my dog a Saint Steve
I thought I saw a little bear fat just crawl up and I was like
As soon as we're done here he'll be going for his morning constitutional so there we go
I always make sure parents in the videos
Finally if Harley does find his way out go go go lay down on your bed and we'll go down
You're just staring at me. He's just staring. He's just gonna Oh Steve. Really? Oh,
He's wondering what this whole internet thing is yeah. Yeah. No he does
Steve those were
Awesome, awesome list and and I'm gonna check out the rocket book for sure cuz yeah, that sounds really cool
It's yeah, you'll like it. I mean it just just
It sparks your imagination of things that you can do. Yeah. Yeah, definitely
Well, thanks so much for coming on and why can everyon find you?
Everywhere at dottotech on YouTube our channel's dottotech. And then if you just visit dottotech.com, there's links to all of our information there
I love it. Whoa. Whoa chat saying Steve. Yeah. Thank you very much, Francesco
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