Making an Evernote Idea Drawer

Explore why people love Evernote and how it helps them manage vast information and ideas. Learn to start using Evernote to organize your thoughts and data.

Explore the three Evernote versions—web version, download version, and mobile version—and learn to install the download version, plus understand the free plan, two-device sync, and monthly data limits.

Explore Evernote’s three-tier hierarchy and three-section layout—sidebar with notebooks, middle pane for notes, and right pane for selected notes, plus inline editing and auto save.

Edit an Evernote note by adjusting font and size, applying color and highlights, using bullets, code blocks, indentation, and checkboxes to manage a to-do list, tables, and categories.

Record audio in Evernote using the recording button on desktop or smartphone, compare built-in mic quality, and manage attachments—drag, copy-paste, or attach from Google Drive.

Edit notes across desktop and mobile in Evernote, manage content with dividers, delete notes to the trash with restore options, handle file uploads, sync, dictation, and table creation, noting mobile limitations.

Navigate the Evernote interface by enabling notebooks in the left sidebar, set a default notebook across Mac and Windows, and manage where new notes are created.

Discover how to use Evernote shortcuts on the sidebar to speed work by adding notes and notebooks via drag-and-drop or right-click, reorder or remove items, and use platform-specific keyboard shortcuts.

Learn three more Evernote shortcuts: add a new note, navigate with alt left and alt right, and use the sync shortcut for troubleshooting; Windows uses F9, Mac uses a shortcut.

Learn how to share notes and notebooks in Evernote with other users and non-users, generate sharable links, copy to clipboard, download attachments, set permissions, and invite others via email.

Explore Evernote’s advanced search features to efficiently manage notes and leverage its powerful searching tool in this section about making your own search engine.

Explores creating an Evernote idea drawer to reduce information search costs by organizing important notes and data, and grouping ideas into a personal terroir.

Learn to organize thousands of Evernote notes using notes links and a table of contents to create navigable collections, copy links between notes, and preserve access.

Learn to organize reading notes in Evernote with a template table in a books notebook, attach pages, clip web content, and leverage OCR and search to easily recall ideas.

Discover how to download and use Evernote Web Clipper, save clips as clean articles in a chosen notebook, and organize articles with a table of contents note for writing projects.

Learn to use Evernote as a learning note to organize, record, and review progress with audio, image uploads, screenshots, and table of contents notes for easy access.

Store personal information securely in Evernote by creating an info notebook, organizing with categories, encrypting selected text with a password, and syncing across computer and mobile.

Explore how to organize writing projects in Evernote using a Seidlitz view to classify notes by category on the subject line, enabling easy rearrangement, search, and display across multiple books.

Learn how to use Evernote as an email inbox by forwarding emails to your Evernote address, creating a table of contents note, and organizing attachments for premium blend subscribers.

Create and name a note, collect links, categorize into education, art, information, and reading notes, use tables and colors to align categories, and use shortcuts like command+1 to navigate Evernote.

Explore how to build an Evernote idea drawer by organizing notes, journals, and collections, using note links and chronological sorting to reduce search effort.

Learn to organize thousands of notes with tags to create targeted views, enabling quick searches by anniversary, events, or accomplishments, and build a text based tag system for better retrieval.

Explore Evernote's advanced search features, combining text search with notebook and tag criteria, and saving searches to shortcuts. Practice managing notes to craft your own effective search engine.

Explore advanced search techniques by building and combining tags, titles, and file type constraints to quickly locate notes about publishing, ebooks, or lectures.

Use advanced search and table of contents notes in Evernote to organize yearly notes by tags, create linked year summaries, and capture growth in under 10 minutes.

activate presentism mode for premium subscribers to turn notes into slides, navigate with spacebar, and adjust note lengths. view reading notes fullscreen and customize color or background for appealing presentation.

Explore how Evernote transforms note-taking to improve organizing, analyzing data, and reducing search cost, thereby enhancing your learning and thinking.