Steve Dotto here.
For many people, Evernote has become has become the hub of their organizational life.
I want to show you a few tips on making Evernote even more efficient.
Now one of the things that I always look for whenever I install any new app or start integrating
any new app into my life, is how does it integrate with Evernote?
Because for me, I’m one of those people.
Because Evernote has become the kind of the glue that holds all of my productivity together.
So I look to see exactly what integration there is with Evernote.
And I’ll give you an example.
I love to start my day with Flipboard.
That to me is a tremendous experience, browsing the web and looking at the different news
stories.
They’re nicely formatted at the magazine type format of Flipboard.
If you haven’t tried Flipboard, it’s a great tool but it doesn’t have any Evernote
integration which to me is a massive shortcoming because here’s what happens.
As I read through stuff, I find something that’s interesting, I say I want to save
that, well how do I save it?
I want to save it on Evernote.
So I had to have a work around in order to save stories on Evernote because there’s
no native integration.
So let me show you how that might work because I have figured it out but it’s actually
more than a workaround.
It’s a pretty darn efficient way of doing it.
So here it is.
Let’s say that this is the story here I’m interested in, Fatherpreneurship: Tips on
successful fathers and entrepreneurs.
I read the story, I see that’s a good story.
I want to share that.
I want to have it.
I want to be able to get back to it so I want to store it in my Evernote account.
All I do now is I use the iOS’ native emailing features, click on ‘Email the link’ and
then I start typing in the word ‘Evernote.’
The reason I type in the word ‘Evernote’ is I have created an Evernote email address
that now when I send this to that email address, that link is then emailed into my Evernote
account’s inbox which is how I have structured everything.
We all have an Evernote email address, at least should I say all of us who have Evernote
have an Evernote email address.
Let me show you how you set that up because that’s the key.
First of all, you have to discover where that Evernote email address is.
Now if you’re on your mobility device, I’ll just show you here first and then I’ll show
it on the desktop, if you are on your mobility device, just go into the settings, and there
in the settings you see right down here near the bottom?
It says ‘Evernote email address.’
You tap on that and it tells you exactly what your Evernote email address is.
So now whenever you send anything to that email address, it will appear automatically
in your Evernote account and you can actually add more structure.
You can actually, by just changing a few words in the backside of that email address, you
could actually direct it into individual folders.
I like to have everything just going to one inbox, though, so I can go into my desktop
application which I have right here.
I go into my inbox within my Evernote desktop application.
I will refresh it because it doesn’t have the newest email that I have just sent through.
There it is, on Fatherpreneurship, and now I have it so that I can store it on whatever
notebook I want so I have access to it when I need it.
This is a very elegant way of using Evernote and it doesn’t just work for Flipboard.
This system of emailing any random information that you want to store and save works everywhere
in your whole information ecosystem.
You can send emails.
You can send web pages.
You can send it from anywhere you can access your email and send a document, you can now
save it in Evernote.
The next thing I want to do it talk about what you do with that information once it’s
in Evernote and how you share it with others because often, what happens is you’ve got
a piece of data in your Evernote account.
You’re having coffee with a friend and then you say “Oh man, I saw a great article on
Fatherpreneurship.
It would be perfect for you.”
And so now you have to get that to that person.
This works for website bookmarks.
It works for notes.
It works for everything.
So now we have to email it from Evernote to somebody else and that is a very straight
forward process.
Now if you’re in your iOS, if you’re on your mobility device, you could just use the
exact same system as we just used.
Go into Evernote, call up the article, here’s the article on file–I’ve got to switch
over so you could see it–Here’s the article on Fatherpreneurship and I just choose from
the sharing menu here to email that and up comes my email window.
I address it and send it off to the person that I am interested in sharing it with.
And you could do that from the mobility version.
You can also do that from the desktop version.
One thing I’ve actually found is sharing websites, you know bookmarks, I guess, they’re
a necessary evil but they don’t really work well when you start collecting massive numbers
of bookmarks and they aren’t very portable.
You don’t typically have access to them everywhere you are.
So now when I find good websites, I clip then into Evernote.
Let me just show you that really quickly because this is a very basic use of Evernote but it’s
one that I think we all should use.
When you install the Evernote Web Clipper on your web browser, which you see up here,
you find a great website like my website, it’s awesome!
I want to save it forever and ever and ever.
You click on this to save it as the Evernote Web Clipper and then when I save the article,
I tag it.
I tag the URL, see we could choose right here to just save the URL.
I save it with appropriate tagging information then again when I’m on my mobility device
when I’m having that coffee with somebody and I say “Man, this is a great website
your should go to,” I can search on Evernote and share that with them immediately.
It’s made me a much more efficient sharer and isn’t that really what life is all about,
to a certain extent.
Evernote fits in our lives in a lot of different ways.
Sometime we need to find little workarounds in order to make it efficiently fit in our
system.
Emailing into the Evernote email account is one way of making Evernote work that much
better for you.
I’m Steve Dotto.
I hope you found this useful today.
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Steve Dotto0Evernote 20October 21, 2012
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