Hey welcome back to another video in today's video we are diving into Evernote, we're gonna show you my full setup
Hopefully it will be a nice overview of how I'd use Evernote in my daily routine it hasn't mean
It's been like a year and a half since I actually did a video on it last err
So hopefully it'll be a nice
Refresh and also a taster for those who didn't know about it
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Evernote without further ado let's dive in hello everyone and welcome
To the Evernote setup video in today's video what I'm going to be doing with you guys is
Going over my own personal Evernote account now for those who saw my previous
Evernote setup it was
When I was in high school
It's a pretty long time ago, but I pretty much have the same setup now
Just before we get started. I will be demoing this on Mac and as you may notice
I've also got a little bit of a high contrast running, so this isn't a
UI tweak my Evernote this is my own modifications on accessibility is on Mac just to make you aware
So here we are. This is my Evernote account and as you can see it's pretty simple
Well if you're someone that knows my setup already you'll know then I use notebooks quite avidly
Now you see I've got these four stacks of notebooks, and this is a Tiago Forte technique
I've already discussed this quite a long channel and one thing that I'm pretty bad at recently is
Updating this so the concept is behind here is
Projects are between one to twelve months long and they get stored inside of projects
So for example right now. I actually have
Pretty much everything in there that you know like like certain projects. I'm working on that
I know we're going to be temporary to some extent
I also have areas so Ares is a place where I store anything for one to three years long in there
And I've ever got wedding in there couple
Major projects at YouTube, I know is going to be more than a year hopefully and number three. I've got resources. These are my templates
financial information
Health information information, and I need access to but not all the time if that makes sense
And then finally archives where basically projects in areas come tonight so to some extent this hasn't been
Dramatically changed, I'm using in mocks much more often
To store items temporarily to sort later, so that essentially works like an email inbox starts now
I'm also using shortcuts on the left hand side. I've talked about shortcuts a couple of times, but I'm actually using them more often for
Project notes that are quite important so for example
I am filming a notion
Skillshare class very soon to demonstrate the notion functionality and the brilliance of the resource
And I've got it as a pinned note up here, so you can now see that there, so it's very easy to access
I've always had my traditional useful information there
But I also have like the team tools editorial calendar that
I sort of paused and I'm looking to reengage with so it's actually a neat
Way to access all of that information also have a guest calendar and collab there
Calendar because it's all accessible as well as the pinned inbox as well so all of the useful information. I'm working on currently is
Available there now. I'm a big user of this recent notes area inside of Evernote
So you may see the recent notes is basically your top five notes, but for me
It actually is a good place to pop back into different items and find them
And of course I use that quite regularly
one thing I would say is that my tag use is pretty much a
Non-existent I still use tags occasionally to tank things like agendas things like meetings
But it really isn't any more structured that ever has been I did have a lot of good advice from Enrico Nala
Who you guys know who has been on the channel before a couple of times actually needs a ping Enrico and a mess
But he put up a brilliant sort of structure on how to set up tag, so I'm clean that inscription below
but I just haven't been using them at really at all mainly because they
Haven't served as much benefit
And I think I should be using it to some extent now the one thing I have been using a little more often is reminders
And also another feature, which worked demonstrate in a minute
I've been using reminders quite a lot because they obviously a pinning functionality to the top of your
Notebooks so for example here. I had my tools. They use pin and that was actually from last June
But it took me a fair amount of time to deliver that one right guys
But it's a good like as in
It's a good accessibility to have all of that there and this always Serbs is a useful pin section
So I'm using reminders a heck of a lot more
Now in terms of my work set up for those who don't know I keep things pretty rigid inside of Evernote
So I send everything into an inbox and from there I do a weekly
inbox refresh
Notebooks don't get refreshed that often. I not tend to refresh make in my notebooks
Section about every six months, and I'm actually do one very soon
And that is literally a 15-minute process in going does this notebook belong in this stack
And then I can go brutally okay, no it doesn't so I will move it to another
Stack and it provides me with just with a bit of a spring clean
I guess so that's an every six month. Item now. I do use Evernote quite a lot. I would say mainly
agendas, I use it quite a lot because I really love the sharing function for those who you can share a
Shareable link straight away and that provides me with the best
But recently I've been using the new table functionality on Mac and they have also released this on other platforms
Quite a bit
So I'm going to demonstrate what I have been using it for so for example as you can see here
This is the wedding payments that I've got coming up for our wedding in June
And it's obviously useful to know what's coming up is almost like a pipeline
And that's what I've created quite a lot recently is this sort of pipeline set up
And I've actually been able to have quite a good time
Quite a positive time with it, and we've done it with a lot of actually different stuff in the wedding, too
But you can see here
I've got a time and date and the amount I'm spending on it and whether it's paid so far and this way I can actually
Tally this off and it's sort of an extended one here
Because I can see all of the information on the wedding so far and I can sort of go
Okay, I can update this using the status tab
Inside of the column, so using the table area is actually really revolutionized
My own, Evernote setup now the one thing that it was before is Bree
Not so good and Evernote have made a lot of movements on this
I specifically like the ability to add colors so for example. I want to color that entire
Cell area, then I could sell background it and I could even distribute the columns in a different fashion as well, so it's pretty
Beautifully designed so they've done a really good job on that and it's probably something I've been properly using recently
the next thing I've been doing as well is emailing in and
BC seeing my evident custom email quite a lot
So I've actually been using it to send in
certain items with attachments or
Items that I need for projects and referencing and then using the inbox to actually put them in a specific
notebook and this has been a huge area so for those who don't know you find your customer Evernote email inside of
Accounts settings and that just provides you with so so much
Now some of the things I'm improving as I said the notebook refresh
I need to do in six months sprinkling change all of that up. I need to
Relook into tags. It's sort of like filters to Cermak something to do is I know the abilities and the functionality are there
But I struggle to implement such a structure so it's something that I'm continually working on
And finally the ability to send into Evernote
I did a feature on how to the for sort of things that you can use you know tags reminders etc
But for me. I actually haven't been using this in the speed of which I'm sending them
I tend to forget about it so actually refreshing my own knowledge of that and keeping
It up is a very important thing in my list
So guys that was a general overview of my Evernote setup
Just before I leave I wanted to share my insights into the new Evernote spaces for business now
I've been in touch with the team and they've shared obviously the spaces section with me and of course. It's an official announcement as well
So basically spaces is an area inside of evident business that you can now well actually it's almost released
It basically brings together like a - Waterloo team instead of having like a bit of a recent notes
and that's it you can now basically pin notes for your team and be able to access this mini dashboard of recent notes and
Any activity log changes anybody have ever made which is quite interesting?
So it's almost like just having your Evernote account on view to some extent for your own team
But they are releasing this for personal users, so that's quite interesting
I'm going to include the video that they launched with it in description below because that always visualizes everything in such a good way and
I'll include all of the information including the blog post launch in there, too
So hopefully you'll get all of the insights you need, but my opinion of its of spaces. I think that will probably
Revolutionize some people's Evernote account
I think they're falling not falling as like sort of slacking in some of the space because the likes of notion
I mean its core there as well or making moves in the flexible application
Space and I think they're doing it with a bit with tables and things like that
But actually the ability to modify your own and pin, they create your own setup is something that Evernote is
Really only done for the advanced users, and I think they're gonna slowly break down that gap anyway guys
I hope did you enjoyed my set up video?
I hope you give you a nice overview of how I use Evernote in my daily routine again as you can see very simplistic
I'll include the video it did before of it
Although people do complain of the loud music which I really did have poorly loud music last time so the ready to apologize
But I'll make sure to
Make that one available in description below anyway guys. Thank you so much for stopping by hopefully this was useful
Let me know in the comments below whether you recommend any tank setups for me or anything like that
I'll be more than happy to check out and also whether you haven't have a note set up tips for me any we're going to
Thank you so much for stopping by make sure to have a great week keep productive, and I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers