I'm SUCH an Evernote lover. I use it in all aspects of my life - i use it so i don't have to remember and I also use it to memorialize, organize and record. Here are some examples:

1. Remembering my husband's (and other loved ones) clothing sizes for holiday shopping

2. color schemes and swatches

3. Room, furniture and window measurements for decorating

4. jotting down all those memorable things my daughter said as she was growing up…. THAT was a REALLY good thing to do. at 18 she loves reading things she said as a toddler (and yes, i have notes that old because i imported them from my palm pilot & my even earlier PDA, cassiopia); recorded notes are fun too - catch them singing, little videos. use it as an informal scrapbook.

5. scanned docs from my fujitsu/scansnap set up. update: i now just use directly with my samsung phone - no scanner needed. docs include: statements, invoices, receipts, photos, pages from magazines, recipes i clipped for YEARS… old handwritten family recipes. school projects that i photographed, christmas cards, greeting cards and letters (my organization has evolved and is now in a single notebook "household records" and each category gets a note (credit cards, bank stmts, misc household, retail receipts, etc. this works for me because i can scan the 'note' easily to locate what i'm looking for if search isn't pulling it)

6. vacation planning

7. bucket list (pre pinterest, i was here)

8. blog entries from my own and others (goes back to now defunct sites…. posterous, etc)

9. diary

10. recipes from online sites,

11. bookmarks - everything, including my notes about them etc.

12. various work and personal projects ( organize links, photos, notes, receipts, business cards, etc)

13. Things to Get. Things to Do (not so much as a task list, but longer range ideation), Things/Places to See

14. tips and other reference info (laundry, cleaning, household, travel business, whatever - i have my own personal google for things i come across and don't want to forget, but no longer clip out of magazines, or jot down)

15. Quotes and quips.

i don't know how much of this is "lesser known" and I am still discovering uses for this indispensable tool! The integration between desktop, online/mobile and continuous improvement....

New edit (Sept. 2014) Have found some more use for Evernote: I use it with a IFTTT recipe to capture posts I make to twitter, instagram, facebook and even posts i put into a particular board of mine in Pinterest.... yeah, it's great for tracking this as well as other activity. Check out IFTTT for other recipes.

I have really discarded a LOT of paper that I previously kept via the scanning I do with Evernote. I am a premium user so searches are AMAZING!!!! JPGs get OCR searched and so photos that i've taken of articles, hand written recipes etc come up when i do word searches. That is nothing less than magical to me.

I've been annotating pages from books i'm reading online and keeping margin notes.

The web clipper has improved and is now my go-to clipper. Easy to do and you can tag, add notes and clip in a variety of formats (simplified, full page, section of page, bookmark)

I've created an "action" board with numeric tagging system, using the reminders that helps track tasks, although there are some limits to Evernote that prevent me from making it my go-to app for task management (random arrangement of notes, for one)

Evernote is whatever you, as the user, want it to be. It happens to be my most important app outside the Google ecosystem.

“Piece of paper” repository

I hate quickly scribbling something important down on some random piece of paper, and then, at some subsequent point when I need that info, I can’t find that piece of paper. A “piece of paper” is a terrible storage medium - pieces of paper want to go missing, and that information is lost forever.

As soon as I finish scribbling, I take an image note of the piece of paper and save it with a tag called “piece of paper”.

And, if I come across pieces of paper around the house that has some information on it that looks like someone will need it at some time, I take a picture of it.

Email

You can email content into your Evernote. So, if you receive, say, a flight itinerary by email, you can forward it to your Evernote. Sure, you have the information in your email, but if you are pulling together a broad set of data about a trip (flight, hotel, hot spots to visit, as well as your passport and other documentation) having it all in one place (Evernote) becomes quite helpful.

Web Clipper

The Web Clipper is a big deal for what I do, enabling me to capture web content that I later curate with annotations and links to other notes on a given subject, building up an annotated list of works.

Another cool aspect of this, if you set it up to do so, is that when you do a Google search, Google will also present notes you have in your Evernote that are related to that search.

Links

As you build up content within Evernote, linking related notes becomes a handy way to quick bounce from one note to another that are in a relationship of some sort.

The process of linking like notes, especially if you also annotate the notes with additional comments, enhances retention of the content. This supports Evernote becoming a “second brain.”

Published Notebook

You can create a link to a notebook that anyone can view, whether they have Evernote or not. As such, the notebook can be a sort of public resource, if you curate content that would be of interest to a community.

Take away

Evernote is like a “second brain” - it’s a great tool for building up a repository of information that is searchable in order to find what you’re looking for relatively quickly. The more you throw into it, the more use applications you’ll find for it.

I’m a big fan. Hope you find it useful.

Long back in 2009, Guy Kawasaki published an article about 14 ways of using Evernote. Some of them are still lesser known. Amusingly I had saved this article in my Evernote!

14 Practical Ways to Use Evernote
Guy Kawasaki (Alltop)

Sep 18, 2009 -
I use a service called Evernote to fulfill my pack-rat and archiving needs. Evernote is a service “in the cloud” that you can dump notes, documents, photos, and tweets into for future access from any computer with Internet access. (Jennifer Van Grove also talks about it in her article.) Here are fourteen uses of Evernote that can help you organize, archive, and share information.

Take notes. Taking notes in Evernote is way better than searching for that pad of paper that’s lost or at home. It’s also better than a text document on your computer because either you won’t remember the name of the document, you won’t have that computer, or you will have deleted the document inadvertently.

Take pictures. Got into a fender bender? Take a picture of both cars, the other car’s license plates, and the other driver’s license. Drink a great bottle of wine? Take a picture of the label. See a book that you must read? Take a picture of the cover. Evernote has a great iPhone app that enables you to upload these pictures directly to your account.

Save documents. When I receive a document (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, or PDF) that I’ll need again, I forward it to Evernote for safekeeping. This is easy because Evernote provides a unique email address to enter documents in your account. I do the same for pictures that people send me. This is very useful when you use more than one computer to create documents or send/receive email.

Photograph business cards. Rather than collecting a pile of business cards that you’ll never go through, photograph them with your iPhone and send their images to Evernote. Evernote recognizes text on the card, so you can search for names such as “Apple” or “John” when that’s the only thing you can remember about the person. If you’re using Evernote on a mobile phone, it can also geotag the photo so that if you can only remember that you met the person in Cupertino, you can still find it. And you can save trees: When someone hands you her card, take a picture of it and hand it back.

Track expenses. When you get a business receipt, photograph it, and send it to Evernote. Then you or your secretary can grab it later for expense reports and tracking. I lose many of my receipts, but if I stick them in Evernote, there’s a backup when I need them. If you’re really anal, you can configure your scanner to send your receipts to Evernote so you have great looking scanned receipts.

Track checks. My bank enables me to see the scanned image of checks one by one, organized by check number. If I knew the check number, I would probably know the payee and amount. Photographed images of checks in Evernote are much faster to find because Evernote recognizes the text so that you can search for it across all your checks. This is very useful when you have a spouse who writes a lot of checks.

Track deposits. My bank shows me scanned images of checks, but unless I used an ATM that prints a scan of the deposit, I’m hosed. Even then the scanned image is so small, I sometimes cannot read who the check is from. Photographing and storing a deposit in Evernote is a good system even if you only use it as a backup. This is very useful when you have a spouse who makes a lot of money.

Archive your prescriptions. When I get a prescription, I photograph the receipt of the pharmacy. This enables me to remember who prescribed it, when the prescription ends, and which pharmacy filled the prescription. This information is very useful when I want to get a refill.

Store your online passwords and receipts. Whenever I buy something online or create an online account, I forward the confirmation or receipt to Evernote. Now when I forget my password, registration number, or date of purchase, I don’t have to go through all sorts of gyrations to recover them. (This happens approximately once per week.) You can, by the way, encrypt portions of documents at Evernote for greater security.

Retain news and content from websites. As you come across interesting article, use the Evernote web clipper to review and use later. It’s much more likely you’ll read these articles than if you bookmarked it unless you’re a fanatic about processes such as organizing, synching, and reviewing bookmarks. Even if you are, bookmarks often break when URLs change. It’s much better to have captured the article once and for all.

Record the wisdom of whiteboards. Think of Evernote as a poor man’s Smartboard to convert text on a whiteboard to a digital format. This means that after the enjoyable day at the company offsite, just take a picture of the whiteboard and send it to Evernote. Evernote will scan the text so that you can search for the word “mission” to find the fifty-word mission statement that you promptly forgot. This works for projected slides, too.

Archive voicemail messages. I use a service called SpinVox that transcribes my voicemail to text and emails me the message. I can then forward the email to Evernote to have a record of the call if I ever need to recall the content of the voicemail or call the person again.

Dictate your thoughts. The Evernote iPhone application enables you to record your thoughts and then upload it to your account. This is perfect for when you have a brilliant thought and want to ensure that it’s not lost among the detritus in your brain. If you give your secretary access to your account, you could make a dictation on the fly, and he can listen to it back at the office.

Preserve your tweets. You can archive your tweets by linking your Evernote and Twitter accounts. Then if you include the text “@myEN, Evernote will grab it for you” (not that most tweets are worth archiving). To learn how to do this, click here.

To summarize, here are all the ways you can get notes and photos into Evernote:

• Forward email to your unique Evernote email address.
• Upload text, photo, or voice recordings via an iPhone, Palm Pre, or Windows Mobile phone.
• Drag-and-drop audio, images, PDFs, and files into Evernote on the desktop.
• Attach Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents to an email and send them to your Evernote email address.
• “Save PDF to Evernote” from the printing dialog box.
• Clip websites and blogs.
• Send documents directly from a scanner.
• Tweet text with the string “@myEN”.
• Upload from cameras directly to Evernote using the wireless EyeFi card.

I’d be surprised if you can’t use Evernote in one or more of these ways.

An easy User Interface for browsing a wine cellar without physically disturbing the sleeping bottles.

Steps:

1. Create a wine notebook.
2. Use smartphone to take pictures of wine's front and back labels and have each bottle as a note. OCR means that the text becomes a great source for search, e.g. Shiraz, 2008, tannins, fruit.
3. Manually tag the years when the wine will mature, e.g. a 2010 wine that "benefits from cellaring for five to eight years" should be tagged 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
4. When you feel like drinking something, search by these tags:
   - year that you're drinking it (e.g. 2013)
   - varietal (e.g. Shiraz)
   - vineyard or location (e.g. Barossa Valley)
   - type of food you're having (e.g. lamb). This mostly shows up due to OCR
   

1. 
   - characteristic of wine (e.g. fruit)
   

An example here: Glaetzer Shiraz 2008

When I first started using Evernote a few years ago, I certainly wasn't using it to its full potential. After playing around with it more though, I believe it's the most important organizational tool I use for my business now.

At first, I would just save recipes I liked or random ideas I'd find online -- turning Evernote into a hodgepodge of things without any real system in place. But then I got serious about my organization and spent some time figuring out what I really needed out of it.

I have plenty of notebooks in Evernote that are relevant to my interests or personal life, but the part I'll share with you is how I've used Evernote to transform my business and ability to be an effective/efficient entrepreneur. I'm building a part-time private practice as a professional counselor, which means there are lots of behind-the-scenes things I have to learn and do in order to be successful. So, here's the 2 things specific to my business' organization:

I have one notebook "stack" (stack = collection of notebooks) titled Career. Within that, I have several notebooks. Here are just a few of them:

• Associations
• Web Design
• Email Templates
• Counseling Docs/Resources
• Ideas/Inspiration
• Legal
• Marketing/Networking
• Office Management Tools
• Praise/Feedback
• Referrals
• Theories/Techniques

For each of these notebooks, I will use the web clipper to save any and everything that applies. For example, I'm not very familiar with Adwords, but feel like I need to learn more about it. So whenever I google it, I use the web clipper to send any relevant sites into my Marketing/Networking notebook (remember, that notebook is within the stack called Career).

For my Referrals notebook, I use the web clipper to save email interactions with the professional contacts I've made. Another really great way I've used this notebook is when receiving people's business cards.

During a meetup recently, I got about 7 business cards from other counselors. Instead of just shoving it away in a folder in my office, I first took pictures of each person's card (using Evernote's camera feature) so that I could create a specific note for each person. And I made extra comments to help me remember particular things about them. So for example: Let's say I met Sally Sue on Jan 13, 2015 and she specializes in Trauma, and I learned that she also has a son in middle school... well... I would title the specific note "Sally Sue 1/13/15 Meet Up", have the picture of her card (the side showing the contact info), then would write specific notes like, "Specialty: Trauma; Doesn't accept insurance; Evening hours; Has son in middle school; (and maybe I'd add a physical description of her to help jog my memory)." Voila!

So this Career stack is the place where I keep up with important resources, info, or inspiration.

However, the next part of my system -- and this has become the most important part because it makes me actually USE all this information I'm storing on Evernote -- is my stack called "Turn Pro" (This is just my own personal nod to the book by Steven Pressfield since it's inspired me to be more focused).

The Career stack has all the stuff, and this Turn Pro stack has all the "do". After reviewing all the different things I needed to do to be successful in my business, I developed specific categories that addressed everything. These categories then became the notebooks in the Turn Pro stack:

• Advertising/SEO/Marketing
• Client Work
• Logistics/Maintenance
• Networking/Referrals
• New Ventures
• Professional Development/Hone My Craft
• Social Media
• Write/Create Content
  
  

Within each of these notebooks, I have a note titled "Running List". This is where I write any ideas or specific tasks I know I need to do for that category/notebook. This gets updated any time something pops in my head. By knowing I have this running list available in every notebook, it helps me not feel compelled to distract myself with every task that pops in my head, since I can trust that I'll get to it eventually.

But how does this all connect to that first Career stack I mentioned? Well, say I'm working on Marketing that day (from the Turn Pro stack). I first go check my "Running List' to see what I need to do. One of the tasks will inevitably be to learn about Adwords. At this point, I could go google about it and fall into a hole of information. OR... I could use that Marketing/Networking notebook from the Career stack to remind myself of the websites I've already clipped/saved about Adwords. So that's what I'd do. I'd review whatever information I already saved for myself from the Career stack, then I'd start working on it. Obviously if I hadn't ever looked it up before, then I would go and google it, but I'd be sure to clip whatever sites I found useful.

So basically, the Turn Pro stack contains the to-do list, while the Career stack contains more of the resources, and they work together seamlessly. (Be aware though that the Career and Turn Pro stacks don't contain the same notebooks -- they each have their own personalities and uses, but there is some overlap, indeed).

Going back to the Turn Pro stack, each notebook in there doesn't necessarily only contain that one note of "Running List". I'll give you an example from the Client Work notebook to explain this. So, first, I have the Running List (which is always my first point of contact in the notebook since it tells me my to-do list for that category), and on that list, it will have the ongoing task of reviewing my caseload and preparing myself for my next session with each client. So what I've done is, within that Client Work notebook, I create a note for each of my clients (using a code name so that it stays confidential). And within each client's note, I write in some things I want to try, some questions I may have, or I may even add some resources that'd be useful for the client.

For example, I was reading a book the other day and read a passage that seemed relevant to my client, so I took a picture with my phone of the passage and added it to that client's note. Another cool thing I've done is, when I'm not on my computer and can only use my phone, I'll leave myself voice notes so that I can avoid typing lots of stuff on my phone. So for some clients, I've got typed out ideas, images, and even voice recordings -- all contained within Evernote, never once needing to leave the program in order to bring it all together. I can't stress how useful this has been for keeping everything in one place instead of having scattered lists everywhere! So for the Client Work notebook, I will have many notes: 1 called Running List, and 1 for each client I'm seeing.

Time Management

The 3rd piece of all of this (I said there was only 2, but I guess I lied), is that my Turn Pro stack is used in conjunction with my calendar (google calendar). I don't mean to imply they are digitally synced in any way though. How it works is this: Whenever I spent time early on brainstorming the business categories that I needed to focus on to build my business, the categories I came up with turned into 2 things:

1. they became the names for the notebooks in the Turn Pro stack
2. they became blocks of time in my calendar

I was lacking a lot of structure, so I got serious and spent time planning out my daily schedule (I work part time in the mornings as a teacher, so I knew I had to use my afternoons to not only see clients, but to also address every category in my business). Eventually, I came up with a good weekly schedule that gave me the time to work on everything I need to. I even gave my self specific time frames for each task. As an example, here's what my Thursday looks like on my schedule:

• 8:30a - 12:30p: teaching
• 1 - 3: professional development
• 3 - 4:30: client work
• 4:30 - 5:30: logistics/maintenance
• 5:30 - 6:30: new ventures

Now obviously I have to take breaks to eat, use the restroom, or maybe I'm seeing a client in the middle of the afternoon, but it's not so much the specific time of day that I do that task that matters -- it's more about ensuring I spend the appropriate duration of time available for the task. Depending on the category, that duration of time can be cut short though. For example, if there isn't much I need to worry about in the Logistics/Maintenance category that week, it's OK if it only takes me 20 minutes. However, if it's something like Networking... or Writing (the 2 things I dread), it's important that I spend the whole time allotted for it, that way I hold myself accountable. Anytime I start working on a new category, I set the timer on my phone so that I know I have to focus intensely until I hear the timer go off.

It's really important to always give yourself the most time to do the things you have to do -- even if it's not the thing you want to do. Most Important Task first. Always. I love to do administrative tasks, like checking emails and filling out spreadsheets... but that's not what will bring me new clients, so I know that I have to focus on marketing and networking more (despite my hatred of it).

I've certainly been more productive and focused since implementing this system. And funny enough, I'm finding myself with more spare time to do things I enjoy. Before getting organized, I would procrastinate and feel guilty for not doing enough... so I'd be a sloth. Now that I know I have limited time to do certain tasks though, I have laser focus and therefore feel at ease when I can shut down my computer and go out and actually enjoy my life!

I know that was a lot of info... but hopefully it was useful (and made sense). Thanks for the question.

I have found that Evernote allows me to have quick access to information, that I choose to store, securely, absolutely everywhere I am. It does this by having apps on every popular format as well as on the web.

I say ‘quick access’ because with the paid version (as most of the best features require), documents, PDFs, and even pictures are OCR’d and the results can be searched for very fast. With its fully array of search tools I can find anything in my almost 40,000 notes database in just seconds.

I say ‘everywhere’ because in addition to being available on so many formats, you can make any single or group of items available for offline use, making the need for an internet connection unnecessary.

I say ‘securely’ because in addition to the usual password protection and two-factor authentication, you can require an extra password that can protect individual items/documents, or even ‘parts’ of each item/document (such as a social security within a document).

I use Evernote to hold pictures and descriptions of where I am keeping rarely use items (such as an extra tip for my Apple Pencil, or a custom tool to tighten the belt on my treadmill), pictures of price signs at stores to compare prices at other stores, documents of things to do on a specific vacation, collections of tips for fixing/cleaning my house, articles that I may want to bring up in a future conversation, and on and on.

The better question is what do I NOT use Evernote for at this point! Evernote has increased my productivity x10 and I don’t even know most hacks with it. But how do I use Evernote?

The first way I use Evernote is by hooking up my Evernote email (which can be found by going to your settings and then scrolling down) to all the newsletters that I really want to follow and read. This helps clean out my inbox for more important emails from clients and such.

I also use Evernote as an alternative to Pocket. I love Pocket but I don’t like having so many applications to manage. I try to keep my life as simple as possible and saving all articles I want to save for later via Evernote allows me to do just that.

The other way I use Evernote is as a personal journal for my thoughts. I meditate via breathing exercises daily but sometimes I have so much on my mind that I need to rant. So instead of annoying and wasting someone else's time and energy I unleash all my thoughts via a private Evernote notebook. This helps me have a clear mind at all times and destress.

I use Evernote as a way to write out all my rough drafts of blog posts, some Quora posts, and proposals for potential clients. Again keeping everything under one roof seems to keep my life very simple.

Pseudo code. Yeah that’s right I sometimes use Evernote to write out all the steps that I will take to create a project/app. This helps me visualize situations and the application much more efficiently. I find that writing out my project/application in plan english reduces the amount of bugs and headaches I have when I start coding.

Daily Planner & Reminders. Evernote is also the one of two main ways that I organize my personal life and daily tasks.

I personally use it for Getting Things Done, following the method described here: Prepping Evernote for TSW (The Secret Weapon).

This mainly provides a consistent tagging scheme for tasks, ideas etc to come back to later. When you add tags regarding urgency, location, and involved people, you can later easily search for "all things that need to be done at home right now" by searching for "tag:@home tag:1-now". Similarly, "tag:bob tag:@train" gives me all notes concerning my Coworker Bob, that I can work on during a commute, regardless of priority.

Also check out the following answers:

What are some creative uses of Evernote?

How have you used Evernote to implement Getting Things Done (GTD)?

What are some great but lesser-known uses for Evernote?

I think the charme of Evernote is its flexibility - so what´s "better" may be entirely different for everybody. But I will share ways of using Evernote which I find incredibly useful:

​* Working Hub for Articles, Letters or Projects
When I have ideas for letters or articles I will note down the sentences in my mind and safe the note in the notebook assigned to the project or context. With the new reminders I can also remind myself to review the text and if possible finalize it. I used the same method also for bigger projects like to finetune a concept for a website over multiple iterations. What´s great: You have older versions at hand. You can work whereever you are. You can organize inspirations around the piece in progress (screenshots of websites, ideas for design and categorisation, ..) You can even let other people review or rework what you´ve done and showcase the finished project in a nice webinterface which is accessible with just a link.

​ * Archive of Travel Documents
I have notebooks assigned to everything I would need on travels: Copies of passport and drivers license, vaccination information and the results of my latest medical checkups. I will have there my travelinsurance, my flight itinary and tickets. And even the description of the sideeffects of the drugs I take with me on the trip. I will have another notebook with recommendations where to go and whom to meet and a third one for all information I encounter while travelling from other travellers or in the internet (which busses go from here to there, which guesthouses are well and bad, what to pay for a taxi from the airport, etc.).

​* Inspiration
I have a stack called inspiration for everything I would like to get back to later: Great books, movies, music, software,... Whenever I see a book quoted I like to read I´ll photograph the paragraph and send it by mail in the books-notebook. Over time I have accumulated a pretty good ideabase of what to read or see next - with the context why I thought so.

​* Bookmarks
When the founders of Youtube bought Delicous from Yahoo one could see what could happen to a reliable and loved service within weeks of bad management: People where not able to access bookmarks for days and they implemented a new layer of categorization which people used for weeks and then turned it off again with all categories made being lost. As a delicous user for many years with thousands of bookmarks I was quite irritated and looking for alternatives. There were none. I knew the new system should be open (speak: import, export), easy to use and to maintain, good to search, fast. None of the bookmark services in the market could deliver this at that time.
Evernote did. I found a way to transfer all bookmarks to evernote without a big hassle and have them now sorted in subject specific notebooks. Then I found out that with the Browser-Addon you can safe excerpts of websites with the bookmarks quite easy.

* One Place to Search
I try to put all reference I may want to use in Evernote (that was also a reason to choose Evernote as a bookmark agent so I will find bookmarks and accompanying notes with one single search). What less people know: You can use the Chrome Addon (perhaps other browsers will work too) to add Evernote results to Google Searches on your home computer. So when you search google you will find related notes and bookmarks. If that´s not fancy..

​* Business Cards
OK, that´s an easy one. But I have a lot of business cards of guesthouses, shops, restaurants, cafés, doctors or theaters I don´t need desperately, but it may come handy to remember the information later. I will just photograph them (with Snap FE for iOS) and they will be filled automatically in Evernote where the OCR ensures I will find the restaurant again when I visit Berlin.

That are a few of my best practices. Curious of what others have to share.

I take notes every day using an app called Obsidian. For work I use Evernote and any YouTube videos that I think might be interesting. I use Apple notes when I’m taking notes on book, references, and biography.

App notes have saved me an incredible amount of time and or but as Daniel Livington says electrons are free and you get what you pay for. Meaning, the risk of losing your information can happen if you are offloading data to another company to manage.

my paper note phase

there was a time where I took notes using only 3 x 5 cards. my method of notetaking has grown and shifted over time. Important thing is that you are utilizing a process and making the effort.

Some method and workflows are better than others. Some will take you a very long time and and some won’t take you any at all

here’s my method of taking notes every day.

I essentially have three kinds of notes following Nicholas Luhmann method as outlined in how to take smart notes by Sonke Ahrens.

Quick fleeting, literature, notes.

These are quick symbols I make within the text of a book or a journal article. I used to finish reading a whole book, considered a project, and when I was done reading, then moved to the second type of note a permanent note. This takes quite a long time. What I now do is, I will write in the margins specific symbols to capture, what interests me about it. Then, with my phone in hand, I open a file in Obsidian and speech to text my idea into the note.

permanent Elaborated and connected notes:

With book in hand, I then open up my Obsidian I create a new note and I talk into the phone speech to text my idea based upon what the book has as an atomic idea.

project notes -

these notes once written in speech text I put into a project folder on Obsidian. And I number each note from one to, however many I have.

link them

Then I take those notes in the project folder and I make links between other notes that I have in my Obsidian vault.

move to slipbox

then I take off the numbers on each of the notes and I put them into my slip box folder. This folder has all the notes in one.

when I use apple notes app

when I’m in the first step of capturing permanent notes and writing them from speech to text, and I find that there is a reference that the author has, I will use Apple notes use their screen to text capture, and I will grab the reference or bibliography and utilize the selected bibliography and put it into the permanent note.

how to set up your template in Obsidian.

you’ll want to go to the settings, then core plug-ins, and then enable templates. This will automatically create a folder, and then in templates whatever file you put in that folder, will be accessible to any note that you start.

An example of how to structure your obsidian files in a simple and easy to use way

I have a file called bibliography, and then FN which stands for fleeting notes, and then the slip box, which are all of my notes that are linked and elaborated upon. Project notes, and finally templates.

The difference in the obsidian between fleeting notes, and the slip box is at fleeting notes are the raw speech to text articles that I have put in there. And the slip box are fully linked fully connected notes.

an example of how to write a basic template structure

##main note

{{date: YYYYMMDD}} {{time:HHmm}}

Status:

Links:

## Ref.

## Read For Yourself

when I use Evernote app and how does it work with Obsidian?

it may sound a little confusing at first, but I use Evernote and Obsidian together.

Evernote is the backend, deep or long term memory. I put all the markdown text books, I’ve read anything I’ve scanned YouTube videos important documents, passwords whatever into Evernote it’s the final back up.

Evernote has an over 10 year history, and under their personal account they provide up to 10 gigs a month renewed every month. So it’s an excellent system.

But it’s not great for seeing different ideas connecting them and creating new ideas. For that I use Obsidian and that’s like the front end of the second brain. Obsidian allows for flexibility, creativity.

it has a whole graphic map and it works against hierarchical file organization. Instead, it works on the bottom up and so you really see the gaps of your knowledge.

I use Evernote on a daily basis for both personal and professional uses.

Some Examples:

• Travel Notebook - I use the web clipper to save cool spots I find on Reddit or travel sites like Lonely Planet, clip travel tips and guides and even organize all my documents for when I do travel.
• Business - I am a project manager and need to keep a stream of different data types together. Now, I also use cloud storage like Dropbox as a backup but I can get a more unified stream in Evernote. Also, everything is searchable, even PDFs (for premium).
• Reading - I use the Evernote Clearly extension in Chrome to save anything I found interesting, making it accessible and searchable down the road.

http://evernote.com/clearly/

• Quick Notes/Picture Reminders - I am always out and about, when I want to remember to go to a restaurant or bar I walk by I snap a photo, or I am in the car and get an idea, I launch the audio recording feature and ramble for a few seconds.

Evernote is structured to be an "external brain" and even uses names like "notes" and "notebooks". Think of it as a medium as flexible as a fresh Moleskine notebook and fill it with anything at all!

Evernote has recognized that this is a hurdle presented to new users so it blogs regularly to share case studies of how Evernote enthusiasts use the program. Give it another try, once you commit to the platform and start using it for a few days I suspect you will be hooked, as I am.

http://blog.evernote.com/

It depends what you want to use it for…

As a personal Farleyfile to record details of who you meet, what you buy, where you go, what you eat, what medicines you take, what lectures you attend.. as well as planning for all those things, and lots more.. Evernote has no equal. Small businesses can extend that to customer records, business invoices and receipts, and social media marketing. There’s lots online about what Evernote can do. It has a killer search function, and works on more or less any device you can pick up.

But.

Evernote has no calendar as such - it understands dates, but you can’t see a standard calendar layout for your next month’s activities; it doesn’t store pictures very well - there’s no layout or gallery; if you and 10 colleagues want to collaborate on project notes - don’t use Evernote: it doesn’t handle more than one or (maybe) two people in a note at any one time very well.

It doesn’t do alarms much either - a very discreet pop-up will (if you see it) remind you of an event as a one-off. There are no repeats, and if you want the same reminder two days running, you have to reset it yourself after the first one.

And Evernote has a very basic editor. It’s fine for email-style notes, with tables, bullets, indents and paragraph numbering; but try to embed a picture and things get shuffled around. Better to use a ‘proper’ word processor and attach the file to your Evernote note.

Like I said. Where Evernote is good, it’s very VERY good. The bad points depend entirely on what you expect from it. One good point is that it’s free - so go download the desktop version and try out your preferred use case. See what you think.

Bear in mind that Evernote is (IMHO) the best mix of features available. Other apps distinguish themselves by being better at some things - OneNote kills at note layout forinstance. But beware that against that there will be serious downsides in other areas.

Try stuff out and see what you think!

Evernote is a beautiful, elegant app that serves multiple purposes for me. I'll share a few.

First, I write all my broadcast e-mails that I'm going to send to my prospect and customer databases in there. That way, it's like a playboard for me to review and edit as much as I need. And - its saved forever.

Second, I store all my reference emails, invoices, reciepts, statements.

Third, I store ebooks and other reference material that I'll need when putting together training courses, videos, blog posts, webinars, etc for my students.

I store images and make notes on the road. I also store flight schedules, packing lists, event seminar plans and to-do task lists.

Everything goes into my inbox folder which I clean up and arrange into notebooks at least twice a month, sometimes more. I rarely use the tags feature and more rarely do I use the locations feature.

Hope that helps.

At first it will seem useless, as you will end up using it for brief notes (you never refer to), clipping web articles (you most likely won’t read again) and creating shopping lists. You can do these with a range of other apps. So for the first few months the benefit will be negligible or zero.

The key to finding Evernote useful lies in integrating it with how you work; in my case I use it as my information and ongoing thoughts store. So if I get important emails with attachments, I put them in there, write comments and tags and (depending on how you use Evernote) then put it in a notebook. Other things you can do are add meeting minutes, store other files (with your own summaries attached) and almost replace your paper notebooks. I still use the latter, but now I scan my notebook pages into Evernote (which I can search in). You can create reminders and to do lists.

If you dump information into Evernote, it will quickly become chaotic. One useful feature is that you can link different notes (pages) together. This can save a lot of time if you currently have to search lots of emails or various file stores. Tagging and notebooks are critical to staying organised, so look up some tips online.

One useful think I have found is to create two folders in My Documents on my computer, one is the working folder where I have for example all Word files I am editing for a particular project. I then have an Evernote Sync folder. Once a document is complete, I move it to the Sync folder and erased from my computer. If I need to find the file again I go to Evernote. Don’t forget that services such as IFTTT and Zapier to connect lots of online services together and can automatically feed information into Evernote. This can include creating a daily summary of all the files changed in shared folders or data from CRM systems. Integration with third party systems such as Google Docs/Drive is useful and improves workflow.

Evernote is only useful if you make use of its many features like notebooks, links and tags plus also use it as your main data store. However, if you do that, it is a lifesaver in this age of email and endless Cloud file folder options. Don't forget there are many excellent tutorials online and it is a matter of finding the right usage style for you.

A long answer, but I hope it helps. I have no connection with Evernote.