Evernote for Business
If you’re a note taker you’ve probably heard of Evernote. It’s a note taking app available on all devices, but not just any note taking app, in fact thats an understatement. Evernote has stood the test of time because of how well it syncs with all of your devices. In this blog post I’m going to cover how I use Evernote to remain productive in the busy world we live in today.
Ok so what is Evernote first? It is cloud storage productivity app that organizes your life. Evernote makes it easy to snap a photo of a slide deck, record a meeting, keep track of tasks, share a document, and the list goes on. To learn all of Evernote’s features go here.
Top 5 Tips
#1 Organize everything
Think of Evernote as your digital backpack. It stores everything you need in one neat little app on all of your devices. Yes all of them (with subscription, it’s totally worth). First things first, create notebooks for all the different categories you’d like to keep organized. Personal, Work, School, etc.
#2 Creating Tags
One of the Evernotes key features is it’s ability to tag notes. By using the tags correctly, you can take notes with out having to search as deeply with in the notebook. Not only will tags help you stay organized they can also do the opposite if you put too many tags that never get used, to prevent this I would recommend simplifying them to only a few per notebook.
For example: Tags you might use for work would be are: Projects, Events, promotions, meetings, taxes, receipts, schedule, etc.
#3 Remove the Clutter (other apps)
This was a game changer for me. When I started using Evernote, I was only using it partially to take my notes, I found myself still using the iphone notes app. That became a problem when it came time to search for things, I’d have to check both apps and it became a headache at the end of the day. I finally ended my relationship with Notes and devoted myself to Evernote. The transition took some time to move all my notes into one place but soon as I did. I was a like a well oiled machine. I recommend this for that reason and all the features that other notes app lacks, Evernote picks up with ease.
Team Tip: Evernote has a feature called Stacks it allows you to organize multiple notebooks under one “Stack” to further clean up the interface. If you have more than one job you might have a stack Titled Work and within that stack have all your work notebooks together. It’s important to note that stacks are put together for you and you only so you won’t be able to share stacks however notebooks and notes with in the stacks may still be shared.
#4 Share notes/ notebooks
Keep those close to you up to date with cloud storage sharing. I share notebooks with friends for vacation itineraries (save passports for extra protection while traveling internationally), project notebooks amongst colleagues, school assignments with your classmates, there is no limit to the number of shared notebooks you have.
The original creator has access to permissions. This is perfect for team members that need access to important information on a project.
Team Tip: Brangerine has a shared folder for client projects, brand guidelines, design tips, social media, & meetings.
#5 Use it Daily
This might feel like over kill at first so take your time and just get used to the habit of taking notes. My first notes with Evernote were back in 2009 literally a decade ago. From what I’ve learned is I could have saved plenty of time fumbling through paperwork, journals, if I would of organized those early on using Evernote. Between the voice, photo, and text based tools Evernote makes it easy to capture something that is important to you and makes easy to find later.
Team Tip: If you want to take it one step further and up your note taking experience to the next level check this out 8 tips on going paperless with Evernote! Save the Trees!