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.

Lydia

I applaud the people who bought the book and give it thumbs up. Obviously, they can either afford it outright or justify its purchase at $25. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have that option. The price is too high. Ten dollars is about right, but I can imagine that you would attract a number of upggraded accounts or new premium members by offering it as a free incentive. Evernote, in all due respect, remember that appearances still matter and this comes across as more about increasing revenue and less about informing the people that got you where you are today.
David

I could easily afford the price for this book but I won’t drop a cent on it. Not because I’m cheap but because I think giving away this PDF would be a great way to promote the service to compete against the competition.
http://www.igames.lt Daisy

It’s interesting book.
Bob

Should be free or nominal with premium acct.
http://jambam.de/ David

I do not understand you guys. Here someone sat down, put his time in and created something of value for you that will easily save you hours of your time if you compare it to figuring everything out yourself and you are bitching about 25 Dollars?

Seriously, I can make more money working at MC Donald’s in the time any how to book can save me. (I think working at MC Donald’s is an honorable way of making a living, just not the best paid one)

The reason this seems expensive to you is that you do not understand it’s value correctly. Time is the most valuable ressource you posess because it is the only one you will for sure never get back. Once you utilize it to the best you can a lot of things become pretty inexpensive

All the best to you, have a great day!
- JimJinNJ
  
  David nails it. People seem to think everything on the web should be free. Some person or group spends endless hours developing Evernote, gives it away, and then people grudge them a little cash for the fast track. Is mommy still taking care of you toilet habits?
  Don’t like it?…develop an alternative for the world and give it away. put Evernote out of business! yikes! spoiled, entitled ….
  maybe you should move to Greece…lot of your kind there.
  - CEO
    
    If $25 isn’t too high, how about $49. Or $99.
    At some point, the market tells you what’s too high and what’s right. It’s not a question of if something’s valuable—I’m sure this PDF is valuable. My local vendor who sells me organic produce is valuable, and I’ll even pay extra for it. $3/pound for their apples I’ll do. $10/pound for their apples I won’t.
    No, it’s a question of what price is the one that will make this disappear off the Internet shelf. Only the owners know if this PDF is selling like hotcakes. If it is, then they’ve hit the magic spot: $25 is it.
    If it isn’t, they might see a quadrupling of sales by lowering it to $9.95.
    They’d certainly get my money if they did that.
  - GK
    
    What do you mean with your comment about Greece?
    GK
pgillbanks

newbie premium user just asking if Evernote version for Mac OS X 10.4.11 is available?
Just hate to throw away a reasonably good G5 still cranking along!
Kip

This really caught my eye. I’d love to get it, but I have to agree with the many others who say the price is too high. WAY out of line with what similar types of e-books on other subjects are going for. Hope the author sees the logic of lowering the price (10 bucks seems reasonable)and going for sales quantity – meaning more profit for him and getting his name known as an Evernote Expert to more people so his next book sells.
Benny

I have to agree with the majority of people writing here…

I have nothing against coughing up some money for a good productivity manual, but the price should be relevant.

$10 and I’ll buy a copy..
Kip

Let’s do a little math. There are about 6,000,000 registered Evernote users.

If only 1/10 of 1% of those users bought this book the author would make 6,000,000 * .001 * $25.00 = $150,000.

Now let’s say it took him 100 hours to write these 84 pages. (Seems like a lot of time, but let’s give him the benefit of the doubt). That’s $150.00/hour. Or 300 Grand a year! Not bad pay in this economy!!

Now lets say he lowers the price to a paltry 5 bucks (the price of many e-books on the Internet). And he sells 5 times the number of books because the price is a good deal.

6,000,000 * .005 * $5.00 = $150,000. Well, how about that! he still makes a killing AND everyone who buys the book is happy!!

Sorry, I’d love to read the book, but $25.00 is way out of line.
Kip

Well, despite what I just wrote, I just spent some time on Brett’s blog and I think I’m going to buy his book – even though I still think 25 bucks is way too much for it. His blog is really good and he is obviously very knowledgeable. He does make a good point about time saved learning how to use Evernote effectively in a few hours rather than spending days or weeks learning it INeffectively from bad info on the Internet.
- CT Joe
  
  For all the adults out there. The ebook is great, a tremendous time saver. Worth every penny. Thx for spending YOUR VALUABLE TIME Brett. All you children who want someone to give it to you can go scratch.

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