Evernote Basic Directions

Evernote is a free cloud-based service that allows users to capture notes, images, web clippings and audio memos across devices. This tutorial provides instructions for creating an Evernote account, saving your first text note via email, tagging notes, saving an image, searching image text, creating notebooks, exploring add-ons, and links for additional help resources. The tutorial aims to help users get started with the basic Evernote functions.

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Evernote Tutorial

By Erica Dekker and Athir Mahmud

Background
Evernote is a free, cloud-based storage service for capturing and organizing information. Once an
account is created, users can save text, images, web clippings, and voice memos. Evernote will
automatically index these notes and makes the information searchable, providing one access from
any web browser or a number of mobile devices. Evernote’s goal is “to give everyone the ability to
easily capture any moment, idea, inspiration, or experience whenever they want using whichever
device or platform they find most convenient, and then to make all of that information easy to find.”

Evernote was founded by Stepan Pachikov in 2002. A downloadable, Windows-based desktop

version was released in 2005. In 2008, the service came out of beta having expanded to web,
desktop, and mobile versions. Both Firefox and Google Chrome have extensions that permit users to
capture webpages and send them to Evernote simply by clicking on the Evernote icon. It is even
possible to send notes to Evernote using Twitter by addressing them to @myEN. By the end of 2010,
Evernote exceeded 6 million users, including a little over 200,000 premium users who get increased
storage and functionality for $5 a month.

Quick-Start Tutorial
1. Create an account.
• You’ll use this account to sign into the Evernote website so you can access your notes
from anywhere.
• When creating your password, consider the type of information you might end up
storing in Evernote. If you might use it to store other passwords or personal or
financial information, make sure it’s a very strong password. (Read “Seven Deadly
Sins: Evernote Tips You Should Avoid” for more security tips for using Evernote.)
2. Save a text note using e-mail.
• After creating your account, you should receive an e-mail with the subject line
“Welcome to Evernote.”
• In that e-mail, there is an e-mail address that you can use to save notes, images, and
audio clips to your account.
• Create your first note by e-mailing a message to that address.
• Now, when you sign in to your account, you should see that message in your
notebook.
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3. Tag a note.
• While signed into your account, click on “Tags” in the lefthand column.
• Click on the down arrow next to “Edit” and choose “New Tag”.
• Type in a tag name, e.g. “class notes.”
• You’ll see the new tag appear in the lefthand column.
• To assign the tag to a note, click and drag the tag to a note.
4. Save an image.
• Go to Athir’s page on the course wiki where you will find an image of our textbook,
Rework.
• Save the file locally.
• Go back to your Evernote account and click on the “New” icon.
• Next to “Title” type “Book”.
• Click on the “Attach File” hyperlink and navigate to the locally saved file,
“rework.jpg”.
• Click “Save and Close.” The image file will appear in your notebook.
5. Search for text within an image.
• While signed into your Evernote account, go to the search box at the very top.
• Type “jason fried” in the search box and click on the “Search” button. It should pull up
the Rework cover image.
6. Create a new Notebook.
• In the lefthand column, find the link called “Notebooks” and click on it to expand it.
• You should see your account notebook with a link underneath labeled, “Edit”.
• Click on the link “Edit” and select “New Notebook” from the dropdown menu.
• Name the New Notebook “COM 542”.
7. Explore the Trunk.
• While signed into your account, click on the “Trunk” link at the top of the page. Here
you’ll find a lot of apps and devices that can enhance your Evernote capabilities.
• For example, click on the “Notebooks” link on the right of the top menu. These are
notebooks you can import into your Evernote account.
• Choose a notebook you’d like to import.
• Click the “Add to Evernote” button.
• Click the “Add Now” button.
• Click the “Go to your notes” hyperlink and you’ll see the new notebook under
“Notebooks”.
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Next Steps
If you like what you see and want to continue using Evernote, follow the instructions here for
downloading the desktop client on your own computer. You may also want to download a browser
extension so you can easily save web clippings.

Useful Links
Official Help from Evernote
• Evernote’s Getting Started Guide
• Evernote Knowledge Base
• Evernote User Forum
• Evernote Video Library (tutorials, demos)
• Evernote Trunk (add-ons)
• Evernote Noteworthy Blog
• Ron’s Evernote Tips (tips and tricks)
• Evernote Status on Twitter
• Evernote Web Clipper Add-On For Firefox
• Clip to Evernote Google Chrome Extension
• Evernote on Facebook

Tips from the Blogosphere

• “Using Evernote to Save Your Schooling”
• “7 Use Cases for Highly Effective Evernote Users”
• Lifehacker posts about Evernote
• “7 Ways to Use Evernote”
• “Tip: Use Evernote to remember the people you meet”
• “Evernote: Why It Will Make and 20 Awesome Ways To Use It”