Cooking, Recipes notebook
hi, i’m steve dotto. thanks for joiningme. today i want to take on the rather daunting task of explaining to your evernote. now whyis it daunting? that’s because evernote is so many thinks to so many people. in anutshell, evernote is a note-taking application. with evernote, we take notes on all of ourdevices, on our computer, on our handheld phone, on our ipad or tablet, and we storethose notes in the cloud in our evernote account. we have our little notebooks in our evernoteaccount that allows us to add some structure. we add keywords that allow us to search onthe notes when they are in evernote. that’s the basis of evernote.what’s so exciting about it? what’s exciting about is the definition of what a note is.a note is not just text, oh no. a note in
evernote can be a photo that we’ve takenwith our smartphone. it can be an image that we’ve taken from a photo library. it canbe a clipping of a webpage. it can be a document. it can be a pdf document or a word processingdocument. it can be an audio clip that we’ve recorded. it can be a lecture that we’vejust listened to and recorded with our smartphone. any of these can be notes and each of thesenotes then live in the cloud and then we can access them on of our devices. it gets veryexciting and as you start to use it evernote even more and more, you being to rely on itmore and more. you begin to trust it more and more and it becomes a repository for allthose little bits of data that are rattling around in our head, so easy to forget andlose, and occasionally they’re there, occasionally
they’re not. with evernote, they’re thereand within access and that’s what makes it exciting.so now i want to show you how it works. again, i kind of struggled just trying to figureout how i should demonstrate this. i thought about showing you the app because we actuallycan download and install an evernote app which i have done and we will use, and that’skind of your command central for using evernote. but you don’t spend most of the time inthe app, instead evernote kind of flows into all of your daily activities. i’ll showyou how that works from that perspective. typically speaking in a day you might be browsingthrough a website and finding an article or finding a little bit of text that you’reinterested in saving and retaining for some
reason. we’ve all come up with differentstrategies for saving and retaining that information. here this is a little bit of an article herethat i want to keep. i can highlight it. i can copy and paste it into google docs ifi wanted and we all know how well that works. i can bookmark this site certainly and theni can try and remember what site it was in the bookmark and organize my folders and tryto get back to it but that’s not really going to work either.instead, i’m going to use evernote. in this case here because i’m in my web browser,i’ve got a little bit of data that i want to save from the internet, i’m going touse my web browser plug-in that i installed from evernote. here, it’s called the evernoteweb clipper. i can choose which notebook i
want it to save it into because i have somestructure to my notebooks, some order within evernote. i’ll just save it in steve dotto’snotebook. i can add tags, “this is important stuff†and then i can choose to either savethe selection, save the full article, save the full page, or just save the url.this is great if you want to just, if there are cool little websites that you just wantto remember but you’re not going to return and visit, and they aren’t appropriate forbookmarking. it’s a great way for saving them and the cool thing is because it’sall in the web, it’s all web 2.0, you then can access that url from any of your devices.so when you’re out to dinner with friends and you say, “hey, there’s this greatwebsite,†you don’t have to go back to
your computer, find it in the bookmarks ifyou can find it. you can just find it in your smartphone. in this case, though, ‘saveselection, click ‘save’ and it then takes this selection, it clips it, and then it storesit online for us. now let’s open the evernote app and seewhat we’ve done. in the evernote app, i can see right away the document or the notethat i just saved. here it is, all of the text and the graphic that was on that webpagealong with the tag “important stuff†here in my evernote interface. but let’s takea look through the overall application just to get a feel for the structure of it. onthe left-hand side here are all of my notebooks. these are the kind of major organizationaltools within evernote. you create new notebooks
and you store relevant data in those notebooks.some people will have dozens or hundreds of notebooks. it doesn’t matter how many notebooksyou have because you can always quickly search and find things by keywords or by tagging.so keep as much information as you want. you can’t have too much in the evernote. i don’tthink you can have too much information in evernote.so here is all of our basic structure of the notebooks that i have set up here. down thecenter, i can see my actual notes and if i go into any of my notes, my notebooks, inmy Cooking, Recipes notebook i can see i just have one recipe, and i can see all of my notebookshere which will give me all of my notes, steve dotto’s notebook where i just stored thatimage that we just looked at here. i can organize
and go through them all this way. let me justgo into all of my notes. i can also quickly get to any document. let’sactually move away from the one that we just had so that i can go back to it. there wego. if i start typing in ‘important,’ you see there. it automatically finds thenote with ‘important stuff’ and all of the other ones that i’ve keyed or taggedas ‘important’ so you can see that it’s very quick to search and find data as yougo along. along the very top we have account management tools. we have, of course, a seriesof different menu items that just basically allows simple management but most of yourtime is spent here in the screen searching for or retrieving information in evernote.down the bottom, you can also see there’s
an ad. this is the perfect time for me totalk about the different versions of evernote, of which there are two. there’s the freeversion which i’m using right now and i see no reason for you not to use for quitesome time. it’s very robust. it’s got almost all of the features of the paid version.the difference between the free and the paid version is in the free version, you get thoseirritating ads. you also get a limited amount of storage which is actually quite a bit ofstorage but if you’re saving a lot of audio files and that sort of stuff, you will runout of space fairly quickly on it. if you’re just saving graphics and text, it’s plentyof storage. there’s also some indexing features in thepaid version where it will basically ocr your
documents much faster. even in the free version,evernote does a great job of doing optical character recognition on graphics, on pdfdocuments to help you find and search within those documents. but in the full version,it makes it a priority and it indexes them very fast and very effectively so it makeits even better for finding documents because a lot of people just don’t clip notes likethis but they store documents and a lot of people store their emails. their importantemails are stored in evernote. if you’re starting to do all those sorts of things,again the paid version becomes a lot more appealing because some of you are storinga lot more data in evernote. that's the app itself.i think what i’d like to do now is i’d
like to take you into the mobility world.let’s fire up my ipad and have a look. i’ve got my ipad fired up so that we could allsee it. we see the now familiar icon of the elephant, the elephant never forgets, thatis evernote. when i open it up, we’re brought in to my evernote account on my ipad here.now it looks slightly different on you ipod touch or on your iphone or on your androiddevice based on the geometry of the screen but the same functionality is going to beavailable to us in all of those different evernote clients. the note that we just took,that we just captured, take a look. there it is. you can see it’s available to usand this, in its simplicity, shows us how powerful evernote is. we just clipped informationfrom a web browser on our computer and we’re
now viewing that in an indexed form on ouripad or our mobility device. that shows us how elegant and effective evernote can be.now as you start to use evernote, as you fold it into your life, it will become kind oforganic as you use it. you’re not just going to capture information on your computer andthen view it on your mobility devices. you will capture information on all of your devices,share them, and it will just be kind of ubiquitous through your entire day.so let me show you creating a new note now on my ipad. when i go to ‘create new note,’i’m given a series of icons along the top. i can create an audio note. this is greatfor students who want to record a lecture or if you’re the sort of person who wantsto do voice memos, you can create a voice
memo. of course, you can still tag it withtext so that you can find it a little bit later and listen to it on any of your devices.you can also choose a photo that’s on your photo library within your device and witha camera icon, we can enable that and then we can take a picture–i’m not going totake a picture here because there’s nothing to see in here right now–but we can takea picture and then tag that as our note. now i use that to tremendous effect in a coupleof different ways. one, when i have business lunches or dinners now, instead of stuffingreceipts in my wallet, i take a photo of the receipt with my iphone, tag who that personis that i went to dinner with, that is if i’m paying, and then when i get back tomy office, i can just go into evernote, call
up the receipt, drag it into my email andsend it off to my accountant. very effective and again it gets stored so that i can goback anytime and recapture it. at that same dinner, if we happen to have a great bottleof wine i take a picture of the label because i can never remember the names of good wineswhen i’m at the liquor store. i always buy the exact same thing because i can never rememberwhat it was that was good that i had at xyz restaurant. i can tag that information, inthe liquor store call up my iphone, take a quick look, find the bottle and then we canhave better wine when we’re going out to visit friends. it works great.i want to show you a few of the other features that are in here as well. one of them is–iwant to go back to the home screen, that’s
where i want to go–and i want to touch onthe more–this is cool. evernote also respects and recognizes what’s in your calendar andwhere you are as it makes your notes. for example, i was at my daughter’s school concertand it was in my calendar that i was at the concert so when i made a quick little evernotenote at the concert and it was nothing, i just made a note that evernote takes intoaccount calendar details. when i did that there, it actually says note from emma’sconcert in delta. that’s because it took that information from my calendar, the concert,and my location that i was in delta, and it put them into the note so that i could searchnot just on keywords but on my calendar events or on my physical location, and it shows youon a map where the notes that you captured
were taken. it just kind of adds that muchextra richness to the overall experience. i could go on for hours and hours about somany different things that we can do with evernote. now maybe not hours but i can goon for minutes more and i think we’ve reached kind of the limits of what we should be doingon a video cast like this. so i’m going to call a halt to it right now but we aregoing to do more videos on using evernote for productivity.if you’ve enjoyed this video, if it’s been useful to you, drop by our website atdottotech.com. we’ve got lots more videos there and we look for your recommendationson any videos that aren’t there that you might like to see there. i’m steve dotto.thanks for spending this time with us today.
[end of audio] steve dotto0evernote0september 5, 2012
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