Organizing Your Evernote Notebooks

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello everyone, welcome back to the Essential Productivity.
• 00:07 I'm your host, Francesco and
• 00:09 in today's video we're going to be exploring Evernote a little more.
• 00:12 Looking at the notebooks that surround your core experience.
• 00:15 Whenever I demonstrate Evernote,
• 00:18 I talk about the brilliance of the notebooks inside it.
• 00:20 Because the notebooks essentially allow you to organize
• 00:23 all of your fantastic content.
• 00:25 As you can see, I've got Evernote for Mac open here.
• 00:28 This is something that I wanted to demonstrate on my own personal account.
• 00:31 Because I feel like I've slowly built this up over the years.
• 00:33 You can see the experience that I have.
• 00:35 I've got all of these notebooks here, so
• 00:37 these are all notebooks that I've created inside the projects.
• 00:41 You can create stacks, so for example if I create notebooks that
• 00:44 are based around a certain topic, you can order them into stacks.
• 00:48 They're basically like a folder for your notebooks.
• 00:51 A notebook is really easy to create, so
• 00:53 all you have do is whatever device you're on, hit this New Notebook tab.
• 00:57 You'll be prompted to get the notebook name.
• 00:59 Try to keep it very clear.
• 01:01 Some good notebooks names that I've had in the past, for example the module name of
• 01:05 one of my university things, University 16/17, which means that's the year that it
• 01:09 took place in archives, which is the projects that are completed.
• 01:12 You'll be able to see that, for example, Christmas 2014.
• 01:15 This specific competition or where I lived, for example, will all be there.
• 01:20 So, it's actually very efficient to do that.
• 01:22 So when you're creating a new notebook,
• 01:24 make sure to be specific with the notebook title.
• 01:27 You don't want to duplicate them.
• 01:28 So make sure it's unique in its practice.
• 01:31 You'll get two options to share this notebook privately or publicly.
• 01:35 You can always share it later, if you share it publicly,
• 01:38 it will automatically invite people that you send over.
• 01:40 You could enter their name or email and all of their contact is brought up and
• 01:44 sent access.
• 01:46 Once you've created a notebook, you'll obviously be able to click into it and
• 01:49 see all the experiences.
• 01:51 You could add new notes to this.
• 01:52 So this is my inbox.
• 01:53 Some of it we'll go into detail in maximizing your Evernote experience, but
• 01:58 the experience itself is very easy.
• 01:59 So you can right-click, you can modify the notebook name and
• 02:03 information around it, you can even share it to other people.
• 02:06 Share the notebook directly to other people so
• 02:08 they have access inside of their Evernote, and you can add it to a stack.
• 02:12 So this is where I can create a new stack, for example.
• 02:15 And have it as the fifth stack I have inside of that.
• 02:18 Now notebooks are super easy.
• 02:20 There's this toggle view here.
• 02:21 But once you've got these notebooks set up, the reason why they're so
• 02:24 beneficial for organizing is they keep everything all in tune.
• 02:28 I know where everything is,
• 02:30 everything from information on my finances to information on projects I'm working on.
• 02:35 So I have all access to everything at any given time.
• 02:38 Just for reference, if you're inside the Mac version or other ones,
• 02:41 you should see this people view when you see it is shared.
• 02:44 I hoped you enjoyed that basic overview.
• 02:46 Please go over to the exercises.
• 02:48 They will outline how you can get started and the best practices for titles.
• 02:53 Stay tuned for the next feature which will be exploring Evernote even further.
• 02:57 Thank you very much.
• 02:58 See you in the next segment.

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