Unlock the magic of Evernote (with Stacey Harmon) 

I am older, have subscribed to ever-note for awhile, still do not know how to use it. Is there a place to SHOW me how to even get started. I cannot follow people talking, you lost me after Hi, you showed the screen for seconds, a humming bird could not keep track. Lost. You look like very nice people, but talking heads SHOW me nothing.

Do you want to learn something funny about AI on my channel? I also have a much other channel in Portuguese, and some of the videos I produce in both languages. It is not uncommon for someone from the Portuguese channel to ask me if I'm using AI to translate my videos to English 😂

Hi Sam, thank you for the comment. Rest assured that at least here on my channel you'll get plenty of other interviews and videos sharing different use cases 😉

I hope so too! Stacey and I use to meet in person during the Evernote Conferences, and we've been in touch (online) since the last one. But for some reason, this was the first time we did something together online.

Wow, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 💚

Thank you! The Filtered Notes widget is the one I like the most. I have several of them 🙃. Like you said, "lots of power there."

No doubt! 💚

That's amazing. Do you combine personal and work?

@@AaronCCorbin Yes, all together. My projects are quite complex, and I also help run a charity with it. I tried notebooks for the first few years, but for the last 10 years or so, I've been using Evernote this way and it's been working fine for my needs.

Hi Darius, I know a couple of people that organize Evernote like this. I find it amazing and even tried it years ago. It's definitely not for me, but I love the fact that people organize and use Evernote in so many different ways. Back to the tag system experiment, what I missed the most were my offline notebooks. It's wasn't the case during the last couple of years, but I used to travel a lot, and the only way to have access to my notes on my phone or tablet, say in an airplane, was by having the ones I need more frequently in an offline notebook. Other small details make this way of organizing impracticable, but, as I mentioned before, I find it incredible what people do in Evernote.

@@vladcampos It's been so long since I have travelled for business, I had forgotten about needing to set notebooks for offline use! 😅

@@vladcampos PS - To be honest, Evernote is so slow and unusable on my Android phone since the 'new edition', I tend to use Google Keep for notes that I need on the go.

Thank you! 😉

My pleasure! Glad you liked it.

You're most welcome.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad it was helpful! 💚

I'm sorry to hear that. All I can say is that I use a 4-year old basic iPad, and it runs OK. It's not super fast, but Evernote is behaving like the other Apps I have on it.

My pleasure.

I see a lot of value in the Evernote-Drive integration. As I explained on my last video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3LWGo_baaWw.html), I do something similar to what she does, but my main use is Google Sheets. I usually start with some notes and a simple table. If and when I see the need for formulas or more formatting, I move to Google Sheets and link the spreadsheet to the note where all started. However, I would love to see a real integration. I can't stop thinking about spreadsheets and other documents embedded in the note. And a version of it have already existed. Before Evernote 10, images and videos from Google Drive would have a thumbnail below that gray bar.

Hi Greg, I do something similar. Tags, in my opinion, work very well as a second filter on notebooks and also as a way to find similar information across several notebooks. By the way, we talk a lot about this in the video about the book Algorithms to live by. Have you watched it? 👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pP5O0pJTnH8.html

@@vladcampos I have not ... but I will now. Thanks.

Evernote has many ways to help us organize and find. Search is just one of them. Grouping information, using notebooks or tags, is another. And “notebooks or tags” is a debate in itself. Finally, we have the ordering of notes. I talked about this last item on the video below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fz2lT65uIFk.html My vision of an efficient use of Evernote is to select the appropriate option for each case. As I mention on the video, I always decide by comparing energy spent. In some situation, it doesn't make any sense to spend time and energy organizing. A good example is a proof of payment. It's something that you may never need, but it is good to have around. Organize document by month, company, etc. is an immense waste of time because you may never need it. Moreover, searching by the company name will return the related notes. And it's ok to use some time to find the correct one among them, since it's a once-in-a-lifetime event. Not to mention that you did not waste time in the past, categorizing documents that you probably would never need to find. On the other side of the spectrum, there are some cases when I'm frequent in need of some notes (information). If that's the case, there's no way a search will be faster than just opening a notebook or even a note from the Shortcuts area or simply looking at a Pinned Note. For example, this is what I do with my personal documents, explained on the video below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PanpkfisvGs.html That's why I do see a lot of value in organizing some of my notes. I encourage you to read the article below to understand how I perceive Evernote as a database and how I organize my notes with this in mind. blog.vladcampos.eu/if-you-understand-this-basic-principle-evernote-will-become-an-even-better-tool-cf2841cb9332 And no, you are not missing anything. Each case is a different case. Try to think in terms of energy spent, and it will help you decide what to do: organize or use the search. Thanks for the comment. Best, Vlad.

@@vladcampos thank you! Very generous reply. I still appreciate having the option to nest further than EN allows; it’s among my enduring frustrations and a reason I look to other apps. While everything you both share helps me understand a different way of thinking, it’s still baffles me sometimes that they don’t just add it in for all of us who appreciate visual organization. Those who don’t need it or have learned this other way could always ignore it, so it’s still confusing to me that they don’t give the rest of us the option. Anyway, I’ll check out your great links and stay open!

Yes. Use intitle:word or intitle:"more than one word" in the search box. By the way I'll be showing more examples of Advanced Search like this in the next Saturday video.

@@vladcampos Thanks! I'll watch out for your next videos.

I'm with you on this one 😉. I like my notebooks organized, but that's the beauty of Evernote search. It doesn't matter if we have notebooks for everything or just one. The search will do its magic.

needing to SEE that Evernote is organized seems like beating ur head against the wall... and the only good thing about beating ur head against the wall? it feels soooo good when u stop :)

Hi Adrian, thank you for sharing your detailed opinion. The first thing I would like to add to the debate is the versatility of organizing things in Evernote. During these more than 10 years sharing content and talking to users, I'm constantly amazed by how people find different ways to do things. As for using mainly tags, I know some people who have very few notebooks. Even Phil Libin, one of the co-founders, was known to rely on tags. I agree with you on the “fitting multiple buckets” and “overlapping” problems, and it made me try to convert my Evernote to a tag-based system. It didn't work, in fact, after a while, I almost went crazy for some reasons 😁 There are some “buckets” I go to all the time and It's so easy to get there using notebooks. I use tags as a secondary filter, or as a way to grab related notes from several notebooks. I talked a little about this in the article below: blog.vladcampos.eu/if-you-understand-this-basic-principle-evernote-will-become-an-even-better-tool-cf2841cb9332 When I tried to replicate my system using only tags, the “overlapping” ended-up being the big problem. Instead of getting specific information like I used to by going to the notebook, I would get to many tag-based information (notes from many notebooks). I attempted to fix it by adding other layers of tags to create subgroups. It was not perfect, but was good enough. Anyway, ultimately, there was no workaround for the other issue. There are some notebooks I keep in offline mode and there's no why to do this with tags.

I don't have experience with programming characters and search. Let's hope other developers chime in to help on this one. As for search itself, I'm working on an Advanced Search series that might help you find ways to organize your notes to always find what you need. Advanced Search series 👇 ru-vid.com/group/PLvpWPNHFvOBVJY7nF8WLGv9ud1DgAd91C

Hi Chesky, I'm not sure if I understood your question. Are you talking about Keep's List feature? Evernote has a similar feature. Look for the Checklist* option on the note formatting bar. And to make things easier, name the note Shopping List and pin it on Home. * Alternatively, you can create the checkboxes using a keyboard shortcut. Please watch the video below to find out how. 👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T448aAKJToc.html

@@vladcampos Thanks. Anyway to reset the list to uncheck all after I'm finished shopping? Keep has that option

A long time ago, I had a 'Travel' stack, with notebooks for each country, and tags for the cities. I always traveled a lot, and I have tried countless variations along the years. Nowadays, I'm experimenting with a single note with two possible variations: all documents in Google Drive or in the note. Still not sure which one is best. There's even a playlist here on the channel documenting this experiment. By the way, the videos are in chronological order. 👇 ru-vid.com/group/PLvpWPNHFvOBXzHLsxj_VChhhcciRtzCH7

That's true, and like I said on a recent video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HXYzjItTFpw.html), I miss it a lot. On the other hand, I've been using only Evernote web for more than a month now, and I see new shortcuts added all the time. So, maybe, “switch to” will also be available in the future.

I couldn't wait and moved on day zero. Evernote 10 has improved a lot since, but there are still small things that we cannot do. Selecting several notes, for example, is still limited to 50. But, in my opinion, not using Evernote 10 means missing too many new features. However, if you don't want to risk it, keep the legacy version installed and start testing 10 on the web.

@@vladcampos So glad to find your site. Going to be catching up on your content! I knew there was a reason I read comments -- I've didn't know you could select multiple notes -- this is something I've needed to do badly, but couldn't figure out how. Can you let me know the 'secret' and where would you the best place to go for questions like this? Thanks so much for your work.

How do you deal with the slow speed and instability of Evernote? I have been a Premium user for more than a decade, but have mostly moved away because after the move to Electron, the performance has been unbearably slow. This past week I tried again-because the feature set is still great. My recent experience: The iPhone app crashed twice in less than 5 minutes of use. I haven’t experienced a crash of an iPhone app in a long time. On iPad the app crashed twice in 30 minutes. Editing a pdf or making a sketch is virtually impossible. You draw something simple, but then the app hangs up and you watch the spinning wheel for 5 minutes- the same amount of time it takes the web version of Evernote to load. Virtually every move between notes and there is a 3-5 second pause for the note to load. I still have the legacy version, but it lacks features, and scrolling to the bottom of a long list in a notebook no longer works properly.

From old app noteeverything?

I apologize, but I didn't understand what you were trying to do.

I agree with you. Searching is not the best option for everything. I even have a system (video below) to decide what should I organize and what will work ok with search. 👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2JbcKD39Jx0.html

I totally agree with you, thank you for saying this.