Did You Know? -- Get More By Using Evernote On Your Desktop

Did You Know? — Get More By Using Evernote On Your Desktop

Tips and Stories | 05 Apr 201105 Apr 11 | By Kasey Fleisher Hickey

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Hi, Kasey here with the first installment of our ‘Did You Know?’ blog series. Ron (of Ron’s Tips) and I will be writing about different Evernote features and how to make the most of them. We hope that both new and existing users will find some useful nuggets in these posts to help maximize your Evernote experience.

Many of us are so mobile these days that we sometimes forget about the desktop–we’re really concerned with having something available to us on our mobile phones. It’s no surprise that the majority of Evernote users come to us from mobile devices. But all of you probably also have a desktop computer that you use every day…that you’re likely working on right now. If you haven’t tried Evernote on your desktop, you’ve only seen half of what Evernote has to offer.

Let’s talk about why you should get to know Evernote on your desktop:

1. You Can Create Long-Form Notes

Unlike your phone, your desktop is great for creating and digesting longer content. Similarly, Evernote on your desktop is perfect for taking long-form notes and working on projects that may contain pages and pages of text, images, and attachments. Use Evernote for meeting agendas, to take notes in class, draft blog posts, and organize a research project.

2. You Can Attach Files

Your desktop experience is, naturally, more integrated with your other desktop tools. When you’re on your desktop, you can easily drag and drop images, audio and PDFs into Evernote (Premium users can save any file type), making them instantly available on any number of devices that you use when you’re away from your desktop. You can also bring in scanned documents and handwritten notes thanks to integrations with personal scanners, smartpens, photos from your digital camera and lots more.

3. You Can Clip Content from the Web

The Evernote Web Clippers, available for all major browsers, allow you to quickly and seamlessly capture content as you’re surfing the web. You can clip text and images by selecting what you like and then clicking on the browser extension. The Web Clipper preserves the source URL in your note, so you’ll always have it for reference later. You can clip a recipe from the web and create a grocery list for it, then access it on your phone while you’re shopping. When you’re home cooking in your kitchen, you can pull it back up on your laptop or your mobile device. We can’t live without the Web Clipper.

The desktop versions of Evernote also allow you to take screenshots of your full screen or a small portion of it, dropping these images directly into your Evernote account.

4. You Can View Your Memories in a Super Visual Way

When you’re on the go, you have your phone, but when you’re at your desk, you tend to be in front of your computer. So, take advantage of the most powerful and feature-rich experience Evernote has to offer. See more notes on your screen, browse notes visually, access the Trunk and drop in integrations that make Evernote even more customizable (for example: making voice notes searchable), and see of your memories in the full glory of your computer’s screen.

Evernote, Everywhere

Having Evernote on your desktop and your mobile device(s) ensures that you never have to think about how to capture or search through your memories. The beauty of Evernote is that it seamlessly connects your computer, mobile device and the web. No more worrying about where to look for your notes, documents, audio files, or photos because they’re all in one place.

If you’ve never tried using Evernote on your desktop, give it a whirl.

If you have questions about Evernote or specific features you’d like explained, let us know in the comments.

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Nancy Keep

Over the weekend I found another “cool” use of Evernote…. a garden notebook of what I was buying that day (i.e. 32 plants in 4 inch pots). I took a picture of the tag with the name on it on my Iphone and put it into Evernote…. When I got home I went to the web catalog for the nursery, and clipped the culture note for each plant into Evernote on the desktop. I then pasted the name of the plant into the garden notebook/database from Evernote, along with the culture and where it was going in my Garden (in my desktop garden noteook/database I have the location of every plant I have ever bought and how it did in the location I put it.)
Myself

Most people access via the Mobile clients? That surprises me.

I use the desktop client pretty much exclusively.

I’ve tried the iPhone app a couple of times, but haven’t really found it useful. It seems to be geared towards quick note-taking, to-do lists and the like, whereas my use of Evernote is more for larger scale research and reference — storing full articles, full web-pages, substantive information.

It surprises me that so many people use Evernote for to-dos and as a small-scale note-taking app. Seems like using a cannon ball to kill a mosquito, given how useful I’m finding it for things that involve more heavy lifting.

Just goes to show Evernote’s flexibility, I suppose
Kees

Are there plans for a Linux/Ubuntu version? I definitely buy a premium acc if there’s a Linux version.
Pete

I love Evernote on my Mac desktop. However, I find I constantly find myself wishing for an extra hierarchy level within the notebook structure. Is this feature already in the works for a future version?
RJ

This post must be talking about me!

I use the desktop version of Evernote 90% of the time both for work and for play. I like that it helps me keep an up-to-date “To Do” list. I also find these as I work and paste them into a note or clip them so I can look at them later. I only wish I had found Evernote earlier. I even tell all of my family members and friends about it. I hope to become a Premium subscriber in the Fall.

Thanks Evernote! I love you!
xavier

Kasey:

Exactly how do you write long notes in Evernote?

xavier
http://thisone peanutheadsdad

How do I migrate all my notes, contacts, calendars, etc. from my old Palm X/T, Microsoft Office contacts and calendars as well as Google contacts and calendars onto the “EverNote Cloud?”
- mauigal
  
  I agree with peanutheadsdad. I would like to import from google contacts, calendar and contacts. Any ideas?
Rino

Hi. Since the desktop version will be installed in my local PC, how secure is it? Encrypted? I’m worried that should anyone have access to my PC they can play with my Evernote notes.
MCK

My Q is this….how do you have a local notebook(s) that will not synch. I do not want to have everything I am scanning into my notebooks uploaded to “the cloud”. If you know how to do this ..please give directions. Also, my co-worker would like to know if EN can be used as an App and stay “locally only” to scan docs into a storage device and not use the cloud. Any help with these 2 Q’s would be great.
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  When you create a new notebook in a desktop version of Evernote, you are asked whether that notebook should be local or synchronized. Select local and the contents of that notebook will never synchronize with the Evernote service. You cannot make an existing notebook local, but you can move notes out of a synchronized notebook into a local one.
Ingo

I am still in need of true Drag & Drop.

I used to scan things into Evernote as PDF, then drag the PDF into an Outlook compose message window to send it to someone.

This functionality is STILL missing with the newest version. It just puts en-resource:///2011_07_12_11_50_34.pdf into my mail message, not helpful at all.

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