AN INTRODUCTION TO EVERNOTE
What is an Evernote? Evernote is a cloud storage application that allows users to add notes through text, audio or images and organize them in online files called ‘notebooks’. Evernote is designed to ‘remember everything’ and allows users to easily collect and find data on multiple devices. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including OSX, IOS, Chrome OS, Android, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and webOS).
Evernote notes can be sorted into folders, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook. Evernote keeps your PC or Mac synchronized with the cloud – based copy of your database so you can also access it locally if the net fails you. It also offers online synchronization and backup services. Also read how to fix the Could Not Connect To Server Error in Evernote.
Is Evernote safe and secure? In general it is as safe as your email, while it is a great place to store nearly everything. All the information are stored in XML format so that it is transportable if anything happens to Evernote.
Another great feature is if you have delicate information such as a password you are storing in a note, you can highlight the text, right click and encrypt the data to make sure no one could ever access it.
Some important terms used in Evernote: Notes: A note is an individual entry into Evernote. A note can be a note you typed, a photo you took, a website you clipped, an audio recording, or an email you forwarded, or more. Notebook: A notebook is a collection of individual notes.
Stack: A stack is a collection of notebooks. Tags: Tags are like descriptions or attributes for your notes. Tags allow you to group like items and makes them easily accessible in the future. No limits to the number of tags you can use. Some example tags include: Who, what, when, where, why, years, contacts, companies, file numbers, events, places, bucket list, classes, lectures, semesters, schools, research, prospects, hot lists.
Features: Notebook/catalog based Sharing/Collaboration Spontaneous ideas File/document management – OCR
Notes & PDF document markup Tagging/searching 3rd party integration (IFTTT, Dropbox, Google Drive) Cloud – based – syncing to all devices.
Beyond credentials – 2 Levels of Security Local Notebooks (not synced) Highlight and encrypt text
Advantages: Free Evernote starts out with a free version that has most of the basic features that the paid version has. With the free account you can upload up to 60MB of data per month. With the paid version, that gets raised to 1GB of data every month.
Makes keeping up with Tech news easy and fast. Makes storing articles convenient. Makes finding stored information easy to find. Evernote gives an email address to send items directly to my notes. Evernote allows creating a new note directly, including check lists. Outlook emails can be saved directly to Evernote.
Disadvantages: I have to view the headline in feedly and open the article in my browser. Not all websites works the same. It is more difficult using phones & tablets to get just the article. Automatically choosing the correct Notebook is not always accurate. I must be connected to the Internet to read saved articles.