Created for the RWU Law Library Prepare for Practice Certification Program

1. Capture Everything
with Evernote
APPY HOUR
FALL 2014
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2. Why Evernote?
Platform agnostic
Sync across devices
Mobile friendly
Connect to other apps
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3. Some Uses for Evernote
Capture, store & share readings, including RSS feed items (app)
Take pictures and add notes
Checklists
Meeting prep: email meeting agendas and documents, take meeting notes
Fun/Personal: Travel, Recipes, Grocery List (app), Diary (app), Capture
Facebook status & shared links (app)
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4. Six Simple Steps to Get Started
1. Create a free account at the Evernote site.
2. Download Evernote
 Desktop: Close all browsers and desktop Outlook
 Mobile: App Store, Google Play, etc.
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5. Get Started (cont’d)
3. Find your Evernote Email Address & Add it to Your Contacts
 Desktop: Web:
4. Create a default “Inbox”
5. Get WebClipper (C, S, F, O) – IE simultaneous with Windows download
6. Get Clearly (C, F, O)
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6. Four Basic Tasks
Capture
Organize
Search
Share
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7. Capture
What?
 Text
 Images
 Audio
 Documents
 All of the above in one note!
How?
 Create a Note
 Email
 Web Clipping
 Scanning
 Mobile
On Evernote, every “document” is called a note, regardless of content.
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8. Capture: Create a Note
Type: Simple or Formatted text
Add image: Drag and Drop, Attach, Photograph
Add audio: Drag and Drop, Attach, Record
External apps (more later)
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9. Capture: Email
Outlook desktop
Gmail (Chrome only)
Evernote email address: [username]@m.evernote.com
Preformat forwarded email
 @[notebook]
 #[tag]
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12. Capture: Web Clipping
 Web Clipper
 Clearly (Chrome & Firefox only)
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13. Capture: Scanning
Android
◦ CamScanner
◦ DocScanner
◦ Droid Scan Pro
◦ Scanbot
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iOS
◦ CamScaner
◦ DocScanner
◦ Scanner Pro
Kindle*
◦ CamScanner

14. Capture: Mobile
Create a note
Web Clipping: Dolphin browser, Safari (iOS 8)
Photo: Capture or send from photo app
Audio
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15. Organize
Notebooks
Stacks
Tags
Sorting
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16. Search
Browse
 Notes, tags
 Within a notebook or stack
Search
 Notes, tags
 Within a notebook or stack
 Within attached documents* (Premium only)
Advanced Searching
 http://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php
 intitle:
 tag:
 created:
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17. Share
Share note
 By Email
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Linkedin
 Copy link (for website, etc.)
Share notebook - Free
 View notes. May allow preview without Evernote account.
 Create a public link
Share notebook - Premium
 Free + Set sharing parameters: view notes + activity, modify notes, modify
notes + invite others
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18. Basic Premium
Online notebooks
Share
Attach documents (PDF, Office).
Search within PDFs
Upload Quota: 60 MB/month
Max note size: 50 MB
FREE
Online & offline notebooks
Share & editable shared
Search in all types of attached
documents
Upload Quota: 1 GB per month
Max note size: 100MB
Passcode lock (mobile)
$5/month or $45/year
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19. Apps and Add-Ons
Penultimate & Skitch
Connectors:
 Feedly (premium)*
 IFTTT*
 Instapaper*
 Pocket*
* Come to “Search Now, Read Later” in the spring to see these in action!
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20. Resources
Evernote Knowledge Base
 http://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/product/evernote
 Also available for Penultimate, Skitch, Web Clipper, Clearly and others
Evernote Blog
 http://blog.evernote.com
Evernote for Lawyers – David Ward
 Kindle ($9.99)
 PDF: http://www.organizedlawyer.com/ ($17)
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21. Resources (cont’d)
Evernote Essentials – Brett Kelly
 Kindle ($12.99)
 PDF: https://members.nerdgap.com/order-evernote-essentials/ ($12.99)
Going Paperless blog – Jamie Todd Rubin
 http://www.jamierubin.net/going-paperless/
Evernote Guide: Texas A & M
 http://guides.library.tamu.edu/evernote
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