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How to Use Evernote - Evernote for Beginners Tutorial
Hey everyone. In this video, I want to show you how you could use one of my favorite apps called Evernote. I'm going to show you how to use the desktop version on a Mac, but you could also use a browser version as I have here. So I'll show you that too and you could also use the mobile version on iOS devices or Android devices and the great thing about Evernote is that a sinks. Your documents between all those devices and that's one of my favorite reasons why I use it. So let's get started here. If you don't have Evernote there's a couple of ways to get it. One is to go to evernote.com and sign up here, or you could use the app store is called Evernote.
Just go ahead and search for it and download it and this is what the desktop version looks like. I'm just going to close the app store here. This is what the desktop version looks like on a Mac and lets me log into the browser. That was the login right there, this browser version and the desktop version, and the mobile version are all synced up.
The thing is though it only syncs between two devices on the free version. So if you want to sync it between multiple devices, more than two, you have to upgrade to the premium version. But I'm still on the free version and it's working fine for me. I'm using it to do book reviews and keep all my notes sync between my desktop and my mobile app when I'm on the go.
So to get started with Evernote, there's a couple of things you need to know. Evernote is a combination of notebooks and then notes within that notebook. So these two are your most important tabs, no books on notes. So the first thing is we want to go to notebook and we want to create a notebook to start from scratch.
So, in this case, all you gotta do is press the plus sign here and create a notebook. So let's say this is my notebook, and then you could choose to make it private. So you could only see it, or you could share it with somewhere right away right now I'll make it private. I could share it later for someone to collaborate and I create, and that's how he creates a notebook for me within that notebook, there's going to be a lot of notes.
So let me go with them. One of my notebooks here, I'll double click that one and it took me two notes here and under that notebook, I have a variety of different notes. So if you look over here, there's one-note, there's two there's three. These are just books, summaries that I put in here. I'm going to show you how to add a new note to this here.
So under notes, if I come up here and press the plus sign, I could create notes. Now, it's going to let me type up new notes. So I could either type up the tag or title in this case. I already wrote it somewhere else in Microsoft word, actually. So I could open up Microsoft word and I could copy the title.
I could come back over here and paste the title and I could go back and copy the content and I could bring it and paste it here and it's created a new note for me right here. So that's my fourth note within that notebook. Now, let me show you how I sync up with a different device. So now, if I go to my desktop and if I refresh this page, you see that new notebook 17 seconds ago, when I created it popped up right here and it's the same thing with my mobile app. It's popped up right there. So without you doing anything, it syncs across all your devices without you having to worry about it. Let me go back to the app here again. So again, you could divide up your notebooks into different categories. So if you have video ideas, if you're using them for school, you could do different subject matters.
If you're using it for business, you could have different categories for business. Again, I'm just using this for my YouTube channel to keep that organized, you could create to-do lists for yourself. So another great function here is tags because this will make things much easier to search. So what I want to do is create a new tag.
I could just name that tag, whatever I want and now if I go to one of my notes over here, I'll just go to this note here and I could click to add a tag. So right here, I could click an, add a tag. As I created that tag it recognized it and now it's created that tag for me. So now on their tags, it says one thing is under that tag.
So when you accumulate a lot of tags, let's say you had a hundred tags. It's a lot easier to just double click and search for something that way with tags right now, I obviously had just one tag on one item on there that tag Woody was easy, but if you ever know, gets really crowded, it's a great way to search for things.
Now, I have another Evernote account. That's very crowded, but I had some sensitive information. So I created this one for book reviews. Just to show you this video. Now, if you want to share one of your documents. So under the notebook, I'm just going to go over here to this document over here. And I could just press share.
Now, it's going to ask me who I want to send it to so I could put someone's email and leave them a message, and I could have them edit by inviting them to edit, or I could just get them to view this document and I could share with them this way. This is a great way to collaborate over any document.
Within each Evernote, you have all the functionalities that you have on any text documents. So you could change the font. You could make things bold, you could change the font size. You could even add tables if you want them to. I'm just going to command Z to undo that you could also click this icon here to attach anything to your Evernote, like a picture.
So in this case, if I wanted to add this picture, I could just press that attachment and bring that into my document. I'm just going to select that delete that. So again, the things to take away from this is Evernote consist of notebooks and notes. So go over here first, create your notebook. That will be your overall subject and then you could come on their notes and you could create notes on their own notebook and everything is going to be nicely organized within Evernote and everything is going to be synced up between all your devices and finally, the ability to use tags. To tag anything on any documents so you could easily find it.
I hope this video helps you get started with Evernote. Please give this a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for a lot more videos, just like this one and I hope to see you on the next video. Thanks for watching.