The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 In this final installment of our Evernote series, we'll look at some apps you can use to extend Evernote's functionality. Apps allow you to easily create and manage notes which have special features; any notes you create using the special app will get grouped into their own special notebook or notebooks; these will be visible to you from within your core Evernote app as well, but your other notebooks from there will not transfer over to these additional apps. For example, my Skitch...

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In two of our previous installments, we explored the app versions of the Evernote ecosystem. We touched upon using your mobile device's camera to save screenshots or on-the-go info. But I was delighted to find that Evernote has a scanner feature that is actually quite powerful, and which produces a sometimes clearer picture than just using the camera alone. To access the scanner feature in the iOS app, flick your toolbar down so you can see the top toolbar. There will be a scrolling panel of...

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 TeleRead's Joanna Cabot has been doing a great job with her still-ongoing Evernote Guide, and she asked me to contribute an article on Evernote for Android. While the Android version has all the same basic functionality of the iPad version, Android's Share feature is more powerful than the iOS share, and this opens up options you don't have in the iOS version. For example, you can clip an article from Pocket and save it as a note in Evernote. It works thusly: See the share icon in the upper right...

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Welcome to Part 3 of our Evernote series! We've been sticking mostly to the desktop so far because it's the most full-featured. But there are advantages to using the mobile apps as well. For example, if you have content you want to save to Evernote from within another iPad app, it's useful to be able to load them directly into your Evernote notebooks. Let's say, for instance, that you are a Zinio user and you have an article you want to clip from one of your magazines. I...

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Welcome to Part 2 of our Evernote series! In this lesson, we'll be exploring notebooks and tags, and we'll make a second notebook to show you how you can begin organizing and sorting the different content you put into this wonderful tool. Firstly, let's start with a terminology lesson. What is the difference between a notebook and a tag, and when should you use each of them? Well, both a notebook and a tag will allow you to mark your information with a keyword, which will let...

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Welcome to TeleRead's newest how-to series! We'll be exploring a wonderful tool called Evernote, and its many uses for readers who want to organize and synthesize books, articles, quotes, websites, ideas and other information. I've written before about my recent Evernote love, and TeleRead's Juli Monroe has shared with us how she uses this wonderful app in her role as an author. But the truth is, we've barely scratched the surface, Juli and I. There is so much you can do with Evernote, and I'll be walking you through...

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This evening, everyone in the tech world is talking about Google Keep, Google's answer to Evernote. So if I were reading, I'd want to know how it compares to Evernote. Fortunately, right now Keep is a really simple app, so the question is easy to answer. The biggest difference right now between Keep and Evernote is device accessibility. The only devices right now that can take full advantage of Keep are those running Android 4.2+ (Jelly Bean). To run it at all requires at least Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). So if you're running an iOS device or an older Android device,...

Joanna Cabot has been writing about Evernote and her newfound love of it recently, and I thought it was time to share my thoughts about the usefulness of Evernote as a tool for authors. I love Evernote so much that I'm glad I wasn't an author before it existed. What are some of the challenges for writers, and how does Evernote help solve them? I'm glad you asked! 1. Capturing ideas Because Evernote is on all my devices, and my phone is always on my belt, I never have to worry about losing an idea. My husband has a "bad" habit of coming...

I wrote last year about a theory I had, namely that digitization was enabling a more minimalist lifestyle for people who wouldn't otherwise be minimalist. I could still have my books, music and movies, but they wouldn't take up space anymore. Well, I'm doing my annual March break spring cleaning this week, and I've found that a recent addition to my tech arsenal has enabled me to take it one step further. The tool? An iPhone 5 with a scanner-quality built-in camera, and the free Evernote app Evernote is my brilliant new discovery, and to my delight, I just found a 'doc scanner'...

Joanna wrote a fantastic article recently about cloud-sync apps for e-book fans. One of the apps she wrote about was Evernote, one of my personal "must have" apps. If you are an Evernote user, you might have run into a problem yesterday or today where suddenly, and with no explanation, you were required to change your password. According to the Evernote blog, they discovered that they'd been hacked. Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect...

I started reading e-books back in the stones ages of plain text Gutenberg files on a handheld Palm device. My, how times have changed! Now, we can read on phones or tablets, in full glorious color—or on battery-efficient E Ink devices—books with sophisticated layouts and embedded multimedia. But those sorts of bells and whistles pale in comparison to the greatest wonder of the tablet age—cloud synchronization. My favorite apps allow me to preserve my files for computer or off-line use, but powerfully make full use of my library across my different gadgets when I am in Internet range. What does this mean,...