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The Fastest, Cheapest Way to Learn Evernote | Michael Hyatt

Mar 4

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Michael Hyatt, blogger, public speaker and general all-around up-beat guy, has not only downloaded Brett Kelly’s Evernote Essentials 3.0 but actually read it. Here are some of his comments. Click here to read the whole thing (it’s short and sweet, like most of Michael’s blog posts).

(I’m a Brett Kelly affiliate: if you buy Evernote Essentials after clicking thru from here, you’ll be buying me a sandwich. Thanks!)

Here are a few ways in which Brett improved on an already invaluable tool:

This is an almost complete re-write. In fact, it is nearly twice as long as the previous version.

Brett included several new use-cases e.g., Evernote for parents and travelers.

He added several new chapters, including, “How to go Paperless with Evernote,” “Import/Export,” and “Writing your History Book.”

He added lots of tips for power-users.

He re-designed the-ebook from the ground up.

He removed chapters that likely wouldn’t be of interest to a more general audience e.g., “Evernote for Programmers”.

What’s the same? Brett’s direct, easy-to-understand style. There are lots of screenshots to help you understand the program and get the most out of it.

via The Fastest, Cheapest Way to Learn Evernote | Michael Hyatt.

English: Michael S. Hyatt, Thomas Nelson, Inc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tags: @Productivity, Brett Kelly, Evernote Essentials

Evernote + iPad? You need offline notebooks

Apr 8

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iPad/iPhone Evernote offline settings

If you’re using Evernote, unless your iPad is 3G and connected to the Innernet-thingy 24/7, you’ll need offline notebooks.

What are offline notebooks? I’m glad you asked! They’re notebooks that you can read even while off-line, that is, even when not connected to the Innernet-thingy. Which in my case is most of the time. My iPad is useful, but it let me down badly when I discovered that my zillion Evernotes were invisible on my iPad: “This note could not be shown because iPad is not connected to the Innernet-thingy”. Swot it said, right there on the screen, when I was in my meeting and I fired up my iPad2. And I was awake and everything, all dressed up but nowhere to go.

So as I’m in a charitable mood, I thought I’d write a post on offline notebooks and how to create them and everything. But then I changed my mind and decided to send you to Hickey’s brilliant post Did You Know: How to Access Notes Without an Internet Connection

Tags: @Productivity, evernote, Evernote Essentials, iPad, iPad2, offline notebooks

Dan Gold’s popular eBook “Evernote®: The unofficial eBook” is selling like hot cakes

Apr 6

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Dan Gold’s e-book Evernote®: The unofficial eBook to capturing everything and getting things done! is selling like hot cakes.

"Evernote: How to capture everything and Get Things Done" by Dan Gold

It’s just $5, and it gives you a brief but useful guide to setting up Evernote to work as a Getting Things Done (GTD) tool, for both capturing ideas and “next-action” items, and for keeping track of projects and complete items, how to use tags and avoid over-tagging, tips on notebooks, etc., all with a GTD focus. Click the link or the image on the left to read more about it.

I use Evernote, rather than OneNote. I tried OneNote for a while when my Evernote account froze up, due to the dastardly reason that I was too cheap to cough up the 450 yen/month (4,000 yen/year) for the Premium account. I tried OneNote and I liked the pretty colours and tabs, but I missed the cloud functionality of Evernote. I use Evernote on both work and home desktops and on my iPad (and more recently on my iPhone, too), and all my notes are automatically updated in the cloud. I found OneNote less satisfactory in that regard, as I wrote in an earlier blog-post: “OneNote vs Evernote

Dan Gold’s eBook is not an introduction to how to Evernote. For that, you need THE Evernote guide, Bret Kelly’s Evernote Essentials, 2nd edition.

Brett Kelly's Evernote Essentials. Click image to read more

And if you know little or nothing about GTD, Dan’s guide is probably not the best place to start. The best place would be THE SOURCE: David Allen’s book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity or website.

Brett Kelly’s guide can be used like a manual: read it through before you open the “box” and start using Evernote, or dipped into when you want to know something esoteric, like how to encrypt the text in a note.

If you have read Dave Allen’s book or are familiar with GTD and would like to know how 1 person (Dan Gold) has set up Evernote to work with GTD, then Dan’s eBook is for you. Dan is a very enthusiastic guy, and his positive feeling pervades his book. He writes simply and with humour.

And his eBook is selling very well. I want to promote books or products I use myself and made by people I respect. Click the image below to find out more about Brooks Duncan’s Paperless Document Organization Guide (for Mac- and Windows-users).