New Evernote Book: Evernote Essentials

Our Notes | 23 Jul 201023 Jul 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

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We’re excited to announce the release of Evernote Essentials, the first English-language Evernote handbook (e-handbook, technically). Huzzah!

This excellent Evernote overview was written by blogger, developer and avid tweeter, Brett Kelly. With Evernote Essentials, Brett has created a guide that shows new and experienced users alike the many ways to make the most out of Evernote. Each section comes full of easy to understand explanations, walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and ideas to help anyone become an Evernote ninja.

Brett sent us some early drafts, which impressed us so much that we hired him. Brett is now working on dramatically improving Evernote’s own documentation.

Evernote Essentials is not an official Evernote book. It is self-published by Brett. He owns all of the content.

A look inside

To give you a sense of what’s in the e-book, here are a few of the chapter headings from Evernote Essentials

Evernote Anatomy
Evernote Organization 101
Evernote Search:Seek and Ye Shall Find
Evernote, Email and You
Tagging for Superhumans
Evernote for Bloggers
Evernote for Programmers
Evernote for Foodies
Evernote as an Address Book
Evernote as a Task Manager

Get the book

Evernote Essentials is an e-book, available from the Evernote Trunk.

Format: PDF
Pages: 84
Evernote proficiency level: Any
Price: $25

Limited time discount

Brett is generously offering a 25% discount until August 8th. To get the discount, enter the coupon code “TRUNKLAUNCH” during checkout.

Tip: Evernote as e-book reader

As I sat reading Brett’s book in Evernote on my iPad, I realized “Hey, reading books in Evernote isn’t half bad.” Then later, when I was reading Brett’s book in Evernote on my iPhone, I realized “Hey, this whole Evernote sync thing makes reading e-books on different devices really easy.” It’s nice to share my internal monologue with the world.

Japanese books

As Evernote Podcast listeners may know, there have been seven Evernote book written in Japanese, many of them have become bestsellers. We have some catching up to do.

http://www.dtphoto.net Danny

Price too high. I expected a free book to push the service but $5-10 at most. Sorry to say.
Ron

I can’t believe the comments I am reading here.
Hey folks, are you PRODUCTIVITY minded or not?
The price does not matter at all if the gain in your productivity is substantially higher than the price you are paying. Isn’t that simple???

If your gain in productivity is just 5 hours (and this is a very conservative estimate) because of the book, then your hourly wage is roughly 4 bucks!! The 5 hour estimate is conservative, I consider myself a fairly experienced EN user and I have surely saved more than 5 hours because of the tips and tricks in the book.

If your hourly wage is higher than 4 bucks, then the book is a steal. So, how high do you value your time??
Paul Turner

Wouldn’t hesitate to purchase at around $10. Sorry Brett.
http://www.orozco.ca Mau Orozco

As a content creator myself (photographer), I’m all for paying for content. Problem is that this is a bit steep for myself and others. Offer a $10 one week only promotion and see if you don’t make up for the lower price in volume. Make sure everyone using Evernote knows about the promotion and you’ll see a wave of sales.
Donna

Brand new “Evernoter super human” here and I was intrigued, but for the price, I would expect a hardbound copy. I’m sure it’s great with a ton of useful information and I respect the time and effort it took to write it, but……..I’ll keep my eyes open for the $10 price tag.
Eric

Agree with the lower price suggestions…..you would more than make up for it in volume.
Alex

Heard about the book on the EN podcast. Checked it out in the trunk…looked good. Went to buy it and whoa! 25 bucks. No way. Drop it to $10 and you’ll get my money.
Stan Kramer

Heard about the book on the podcast and couldn’t wait to download it! Then saw the price. I can definitely live without it.
Cliff Spicer

Bought the book for $25 and as a Evernote user for almost a yr and a half I thought I had most of the features working for me. The book alone was worth the money to learn about the structure of creating and saving some complex and powerful searches. I was putting in one or two words to find what I wanted but Brett’s book took me to a new level of understanding. As well, the chapter on organizing notes and deciding on a tag vs notebook hierarchy or which one to make your primary method was useful in that it showed me that one size does not fit all and getting it right from the start saves some future headaches. This is not the sort of stuff someone finds in a manual but the reason bookstores are full of books about existing software.

Anyway Brett got my $25 and was glad I spent the dough,

Cliff
Rebecca

I too was intrigued when I got the email with news of the ebook, but when I investigated further, was soooo disappointed to find out the cost. I just can’t afford $25 for any book, let alone an e-book! Lower the price, and I’ll be there in a heart beat!

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