Creating Effective Notes Inside Evernote

Quick reference

• 00:00 Hello everyone, welcome back to essential productivity.
• 00:07 My name is Francesco, and I'm your host here for this GoSkills course.
• 00:12 So as you can see, we are back on Evernote, I hope you're enjoying
• 00:16 Evernote so far if you've managed to download it and have some fun with it.
• 00:20 So in today's feature, we're going to be talking about how you can create really
• 00:23 effective notes inside of Evernote.
• 00:27 This can be really important when it comes to exams,
• 00:30 when it comes to working on projects.
• 00:32 And if you want to share your Evernote notes with people because adding as much
• 00:37 detail and as much information as possible is actually really, really important.
• 00:41 So we're just gonna show you a few ways that you can create some really effective
• 00:45 notes inside of Evernote.
• 00:47 Here we have my Mac version.
• 00:49 I want to send over some information about
• 00:53 an email panel design that I'd like our team to take a look at.
• 00:56 This is a blank Evernote note up here.
• 00:59 You can send them to any of the notebooks you have.
• 01:02 And as you can see,
• 01:03 the way I've structured it allows me to quickly find the notebook I found.
• 01:07 But if you don't have that ability, what I would do is I can
• 01:11 type in the notebook I'm looking for and I will click that as Newton Mail.
• 01:15 Once I move that to that, it will appear in the notebook and
• 01:18 no longer in the inbox.
• 01:20 Up here, you can also add tags, which is a great way to organize
• 01:24 if you want to add something like meeting notes as your tag, or design ideas,
• 01:29 then that's something you can and that will quickly help organize all of your
• 01:33 notes in a way that allows you to do it across different notebooks.
• 01:37 You can use all of the formatting features, including font changes,
• 01:41 font size change, bold, italics, underline, color change,
• 01:45 which is quite impressive, and also the ability to highlight.
• 01:48 You can use things like the bullet points, numbered bullet points, and check lists.
• 01:52 Check lists comes particularly in hand when using a project, for example,
• 01:56 being able to list some of the actions for you and your team.
• 01:59 You can enter horizontal lines, move around the text alignment,
• 02:02 and also insert tables to make it a bit more official.
• 02:05 When it comes to adding as much value as possible to your notebook,
• 02:09 use some multimedia functions so you can record any audio and attach it there.
• 02:13 Let's get started with some of this note.
• 02:15 Maybe I wanna share some email design on the conversation panel.
• 02:21 This is our current experience.
• 02:23 This is our current experience.
• 02:27 We should consider moving the tab over.
• 02:33 So as you can see, I've started creating this note.
• 02:35 Any image that you bring in will bleed into the in-line, which is great.
• 02:40 So it means that you can visually show stuff off.
• 02:43 That is the ability to resize this one, so I can quickly make it any size I wish.
• 02:48 When you right-click on the Mac version, you can actually save that,
• 02:51 annotate image as well.
• 02:53 Let’s say, I want to point out the beautiful subject line that we have here.
• 02:57 And also the use of the done button, for example.
• 03:00 What you can do is once you access that, it will change it and
• 03:05 have the ability to see all of those quick adjustments.
• 03:08 So that's a quite a nice way of having the ability to modify some examples.
• 03:14 I can take a snapshot, this can be of me on the camera if I want, and
• 03:18 of course also add any attachment files.
• 03:21 So if I want to add PDFs, a document in any format, you can add that, and
• 03:25 you can add quite a lot of storage up to each note inside if Evernote.
• 03:29 Now, you can attach a file from Google Drive.
• 03:32 So you can see all of these mp4 files, you can import absolutely anything in any
• 03:36 format which is a great way to enhance experience.
• 03:40 Up here, you can also add a reminder, even show in presentation mode and
• 03:45 annotate the note as a full.
• 03:47 So you can annotate the entire note is a PDF.
• 03:49 So you can export it as a PDF and annotate it which is a good way.
• 03:53 Up here, you can modify the title tags, the date it was created as well.
• 03:57 So that's an important one.
• 03:58 And also a URL and any location information, too.
• 04:02 So up here, also, you can share the note, copy the public link,
• 04:05 which is a great way to share stuff quickly.
• 04:08 Those are important because once you add as much detail to them as possible,
• 04:12 this can be something that many people really go into detail on.
• 04:15 I can imagine a lot of students have benefited from this when it comes to
• 04:18 exams, being able to add a lot of multimedia and PDFs, images, and
• 04:24 recordings as much as they can to add as much value to their revision experience.
• 04:29 Anyway, guys, I hope you enjoyed this feature.
• 04:31 We'll be covering Evernote in the next few videos.
• 04:33 So stay tuned.
• 04:34 In the exercise for this feature, we're going to be including some of
• 04:37 the stuff that you can add to an Evernote and going over this in more detail.
• 04:41 So feel free to check out the exercise and
• 04:43 put any questions to me in email if you have any.
• 04:46 Thank you very much.
• 04:47 I'll see you next segment.

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