How to Use Evernote to Organize Your Life

Welcome to another edition of Entrepreneur Tools with Evan Carmichael, where we delve into the essential tools, resources, and apps that help run a successful business. In today's episode, Evan shares his extensive experience with Evernote, a powerful tool for sharing research and ideas across all your devices, ensuring everything is backed up online for easy remote access. He walks us through how Evernote has revolutionized his workflow, allowing for a seamless transition of information between his office computer, laptop, and iPad.

Evan demonstrates Evernote's practical uses in his daily life, starting with how it has enabled him to maintain a paperless office. He explains how scanning and storing receipts with Evernote, in combination with a ScanSnap scanner, has not only decluttered his space but also made retrieving any document a breeze, thanks to Evernote's efficient search functionality. Evan shares personal anecdotes to illustrate Evernote's versatility, including making returns without physical receipts and managing business notes. Whether it's planning meetings with his marketing team or jotting down ideas on the go, Evernote ensures that all his notes are synchronized across his devices for easy access anytime, anywhere.

Beyond business, Evan explores how Evernote enhances his travel experiences. He outlines how he organizes his trips, from research to itinerary planning, ensuring everything is at his fingertips when exploring new cities. This episode is not just about how Evernote keeps Evan organized but also serves as a guide for entrepreneurs looking to optimize their productivity and organization. Whether it's for receipts, business notes, or travel planning, Evernote's capabilities are boundless. If you're looking to learn more about Evernote or share your own experiences with productivity apps, join the conversation in the comments section below.
In this video I review one of my favourite tools: Evernote

Transcript

Hi I'm Evan Carmichael - Welcome to another edition of Entrepreneur Tools where I talked about my favourite tools, resources, and apps that I use to run my business.

Today I'm going to talk about Evernote and how I use it on my iPad as well as on my computer and my laptop.

Getting Started

All right, so let's get started. Evernote at its core is a great way to be able to share research and ideas across all of your different computers and devices, as well as back everything back online in case you need remote access to it.

So I thought the best way to actually show you how to use Evernote is to actually use Evernote. I use Evernote on my office computer, on my laptop at home and on my iPad as well. I'm going to quickly cover how to use all three of them.

How I got started here, in terms of creating this video, was I created a file yesterday on my laptop called Evernote video. And when I got into the office it's automatically synced so I can come in and I'm ready to shoot my video.

Today I want to go over the intro, which you guys have already seen, the 3 main uses, and I'm going to end with a conclusion.

The 3 Main Ways I Use Evernote - #1: The Paperless Office

The 3 Main Ways I Use Evernote - #2: Business Notes

The 3 Main Ways I Use Evernote - #3: Travel

Conclusion

Thank you for joining me to another edition of Entrepreneur Tools. If you guys liked the video and you want to see more, please give it a 'thumbs up' below.

I'd also love to see what you thought about the video and if want to leave a comment or if you have a question about Evernote or share how you use Evernote, I'd love to hear about it if you want to leave it in the comment section below. So, thank you and we'll see you on the next episode!

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[goldenswordtaichi]

The freshest fruits I have had were at the Ohai ValleySpa and Resort near Santa Barbara. The resorts was nice too. Low Spanish style with herb gardens all over the grounds making the place smell nice.

[davidhallen]

Your video makes Evernote comes alive, I will give it a try

[kevinfernando]

This was impressive. I just spent the last 4 redoing my contenting mining strategy. I take public transport to work so I have an hour or so there and back and it gives me time to read ALOT. Like you, I used to email myself interesting stuff I pull off of feedly and then somehow spend ages categorising them on a google spreadsheet. Evernote makes it so much more easier with the tags and different notebooks. A legend as always Evan! Thanks.

[YingYingShi]

I love your Evernote videos. Your examples are always so specific and give so clear hints on how to best use this tool. Thanks Evan!

[osmith]

Thanks! Fabulous tips. I'm just getting started with Evernote.

[bloodrain]

I changed some of my Evernote notebooks as I watched this video. Thanks for the suggestions. This is my 3rd day on this program. Just upgraded also.

[TheFishyduck]

Fantastic presentation with some key ideas, I am in the middle of going paperless at home/office, loved the use for vacation planning, I will be implementing a lot of your ideas for going paperless, whole thing was awesome, great work.
Thanks

[JosephSaenzMakeup]

Really good video! Been using Evernote for about 5 months now. As a makeup artist and small business owner I'm finding so many ways to use it. Your tips about using it for receipts was really helpful as I have been a little insecure about tossing the paper. Thanks for the encouragement. Hope you have/had a nice time here in California. I'm a native to L.A. :)

[rickeasley]

Cool video. Very helpful and practical software. After see this video, I decided to sign up on Evernote.

[charlenepardue]

I am in the beginning months of using evernote with scansnap. I am trying to get my head around how to efficiently and effectively use the notebooks and tags. At the moment I feel I have just moved the "pile" from my desk to evernote, but at least searching evernote is easier.
Thanks for the video.
Trying to keep it simple

[ferdifred]

liked the video! Great little tips. Looking to see if your other videos are as helpful!

[unarvuiot]

Hi, just got introduced to evernote, was using OneNote, had nightmare sync to web and mobile devices, liked the concept of using for receipts. More video on using for improving business will be good.

[azncrawlerutube]

Great share for dealing with receipts. I never thought of using it that way. The storage and quick search beat going through my shoe boxes.

I do use Evernote to keep lots of my notes. One useful thing I find is that I can use my BlackBerry to take picture of all my membership cards and it'll save directly into Evernote. I don't have to keep all my cards in my wallet (CAA, Airmiles, Aeroplans, Shoppers.. etc)

Thanks for sharing your tips. I feel a sense of nearness to you as we are from the same city :)

[CarlBelcher]

Hi Evan, I notice many people asking about the scanner you're using. I personally use the new 'page camera' option on my iPhone to simply take a photo. It auto crops and adjusts brightness, then syncs and performs OCR on Evernote server making them searchable.
Google 'evernote page camera'

[Camaro]

Very Detailed. Great job on the video

[nervousflower]

Hi Michael, Nice to discover you on youtube. I am just in the beginning stages of trying to organise a sharable GTD based paperless office and researching project management software etc to help run my recently expanded business (awesome & terrifying!). Looking forward to seeing you other vids. :)

[TravelPhotoWriter]

Just getting into EN, LOVE IT, watched your video for best practices/new ideas on how to efficiently use it. Got ALL excited about your San Diego request, as we go there often & are going again in 3 wks. We also have great cruise/vacation insider tips, then saw the date - I'm sure the trip is well over! Ha ha, oh well... Happy trails & thanks for a FAB video!

[LindseySullivan]

I would appreciate a vid of the process as well.

BTW, this is a great video! High quality and I will continue to watch your others. Thanks for your hard work!

[TheNudoTeam]

Love it! thanks for the info. I'm new to evernote & scanning receipts...very good insight!

[abimaeljr]

San Francisco is amazing i lived there before, Height street and Ash-berry is very cool and have good food, it is by the Golden Gate park and you and your family can have a great walk, also Marin City is the most beautiful city i ever seen, you and your family will have a bless time take care and keep in touch!