Evernote For the Mac: detailed instructions for beginners

Evernote, this is perhaps the best known of the existing digital notepads and it became virtually synonymous notes. On the Internet, every day we come across interesting things that I would like to keep, so that you can go back to them if necessary. But the problem is that all of our interestingness can not be conveniently stored in one place. Evernote copes with this task is simply remarkable and it can be used to organize and search for convenient storage of your digital content. It perfectly coexist side by side, and text notes, and scan documents, and just images and files. On the possibilities of Everonote and how to use it in my life, I want to tell you in this great article.

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first look

In fact, Evernote - this is not a regular application for taking notes, as many people think, its capabilities extend much further than you can imagine from the beginning. In addition to text, you can store the images to Evernote, voice notes, scanned documents, and other files. In this case, the added information will be available on all your devices. Evernote clients for all platforms are free and perfectly sinhoroniziruyutsya together. Therefore you can easily add new notes and just as easy to find existing. Thanks to Evernote search algorithm allows you to search text within files and even images.

Installing the client

The first thing you need to download the Evernote app for your device and create a free account. In the future, when you become an active user of Evernote, you may have to buy a premium account, which allows to significantly increase the volume of downloaded information and provides other additional function. At the initial stage of the same, it is quite enough for a free account, and it is likely that not only at the beginning, and even at your usual mode of use (I know a lot of people successfully using free accounts for years, and he to them I am).

Account and interface

After logging in to your account you get is not the main screen Evernote. Here you have all the major functions that are most often used: notebooks, notes, tags and search. Let's briefly go through the Evernote interface. On different platforms it looks different, but the basic elements are almost identical - to add and search notes will be familiar, you are running Evernote on Mac, iPhone, or simply in the browser.

press new noteTo create a note, list, add a picture, document or audizapis. For example, I'm going to write an article about Apple. First, I need to learn more about the company and to gather information on which can be supported in writing the article. To do this, create a note and just add to it the information found on the web. Thanks to Evernote, I can save some fragments of the text, add to them my notes and assign each note tag.

tags

tags - this is the easiest way to organize your notes on one subject and thanks to him, in the future you will be very easy to find the related notes. For example, I've added a tag company to notes from Apple dossier can always go back to them when you need to clarify any detail.

notebooks

Now that you learned how to add tags to each note - your records become more accurate, and easier to find. For convenience, you can move your notes on certain notebooks - by analogy with paper notebooks. Well, let's put my notes about Apple in a separate notebook, to be able to quickly access them at any time.

Initially, Evernote creates all new notes in a notebook Inbox, But you can change this option in Settings. from a notebook Inbox you can always move the notes in any notepads at your convenience. For example, I try once a month "rake" all the goodness of the input pad, carry the appropriate categories and assign tags, if this is not done at creation. This approach allows you to keep order in your articles and gives to accumulate a large number of unsorted records.

Stacks (stacks)

If you want even more order, can be grouped into Notepad to create a so-called stack (stacks). The application, they look exactly the same as would have looked Footprint Moleskine paper on your desk. You can create as many notebooks and stacks as you like and group them as convenient. For example, so you can easily distinguish between your personal and work notes. To avoid confusion among other items, just look for the right note in particular a stack of notebooks, that's all.

hint. To work together, you can "share the" any of your notebooks, opening access to it to colleagues or friends (right click - Sharing a notebook). There are two options: a public link or access to only invited users.

mobile Evernote

Evernote works on mobile devices similar to the desktop version, but has a more attractive interface (as for me). For example, in the iOS-version of Evernote has a wonderful socket to add quick notes, allowing you to instantly capture your thoughts.

At the same time, regardless of the platform, all customers have the same opportunities to Evernote and it is very it is important, because you can always add your own notes to any device that you have on hand. It is much easier and more practical than taking notes on scraps of paper that tend to get lost at the most inopportune moment.

Evernote Web Clipper

I do not know about you, but I am constantly confronted with the need to preserve some useful fragments and content from sites while surfing the web. If you just add a bookmark to a page a week later I can not remember exactly what I noticed. It is much easier to maintain a specific fragment of the page, what we and helps Evernote Web Clipper. It is an extension for all popular browsers and has advanced settings for saving web content. Judge for yourself, using the Evernote Web Clipper, you can save:

• article;
• simplified article;
• the entire page;
• bookmark;
• screenshot;

The editing options available to us as a variety of tools:

• extractor images;
• Marker for text;
• addition of the arrows;
• adding text;
• blur certain parts of the page;
• cropping;
• zooming;

If you are an active user of Skitch, you probably know all of this istrument editor, who also belongs to Evernote. As in Skitch, Evernote Web Clipper in you can select pieces of text, adding notes, use figures and arrows, as well as highlight text color marker. Then you can both save the note, and share via email, or a fragment of the social network.

I almost forgot! The Evernote Web Clipper is one very useful option, the inclusion of which will allow the search to Google (and other search engines) display similar results from your pads. The function is called Related and is included in the settings Clipper'a Web browser. Such additional search is very useful, especially when a large number of notes.

Advanced search

The search engine in Evernote has extensive capabilities and in addition to the normal search supports some specific requests to display notes with reference to the date, notebook or tag.

• Search in notebooks. To search in a specific notebook - enter to the search query notebook: the name of the notebook. For example, I need to know when the last time I changed the oil in your car, that's what I drive in to the search - notebook: Machine oil. If I were looking for tags or a simple query in the results would have been a lot of unnecessary notes which I have added in the selection of oils, as well as tips and reviews from other polzovteley.
• Search for tags. Is administered prior to the search query tag: the tag name. for example tag: Oil. The search is similar to the previous one, with the only difference that results is filtered based on the selected tag. Conversely, you can search only those notes, upon whom no marked the selected tag. For this we use code like this: -tag: name tag.

• Search by date. To search by date, you can use the condition created: day-n (Displays all notes created in the past n days) or created: yyyymmdd (Displays the notes by creation date, given in year-month-day format). For example, I need the notes created in December 30, 2013, for this I type created: 20131230. As you can see, everything is quite simple.
• Search for files and attachments. And finally, you can search for a note containing a certain type of files. For example, to search for notes with the image input resource: image / *And to search for audio resource: audio / *.

Premium subscription

If you like to use Evernote, eventually you may want to expand your account to a premium. Is such a pleasure $ 45 per year or $ 5 per month. Paid podiska provides you with these options:

• Offline access to notes in mobile applications (usually requires the presence of a network connection);
• the ability to use PIN-code protection for mobile devices;
• 1 GB for creating notes ezhemesyano (in normal version 60 MB);
• increase the maximum size of each note to 100 MB;
• the more advanced the presentation in full screen mode;

To begin with, a free account will be enough to head, but if you really want to expand it - be sure every penny spent will pay off and pay for itself.

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In this article, I have tried to cover all the features of Evernote, and to give advice on its effective use, from my own experience. I hope it was useful for you, and if you still do not use Evernote in your life, you will begin to use it. Try to develop a habit to keep it all my notes - in budeschem you really appreciate it, especially when you need to quickly find some piece of your past.

I've been using Evernote, but do not consider myself a power-user'om (about functions, I know, but to use them prevents laziness), so if you have any good advice or recommendations - always unsubscribe in the comments (I will update the material with reference to your Council).

We have questions, suggestions or just want to share? I invite you to the discussion in the comments.