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EVERNOTE

50 sec intro to Evernote

(that Evernote link is a referral link that should give you one free month of premium service, I get some benefit too, just not sure what!)

Evernote 5 for Windows webinar - 30 minute overview of the Sept 2013 update to the Window desktop interface.
Evernote Products : Check out the tools in the Evernote family
The Trunk : Amazing array of apps and tools that interact with Evernote. They even sell the coolest socks. I want!
Knowledge Base : Search for help topics here.
Go Premium : Free Evernote is pretty awesome, Premium Evenote is terrifically awesome. Offline notebooks and text searchable PDFs and documents make this worth it for me. (Compare free/premium/business features)
Advanced Search - tips and tricks
Search Grammar - Become an Evernote search ninja with these search operators.
MakeUseOf - How to Use Evernote The Unofficial Manual - Part of the MakeUseOf series of guides and tip sheets. Great free PDF guide to Evernote. (might be a little out of date?)
MakeUseOf - Evernote Search Syntax Cheat Sheet
Evernote Essentials - Very thorough book about Evernote by Brett Kelly

Notes : Notes are the core of Evernote. A note can hold text, audio, images, PDF files, documents and more. You can have up to 100,000 notes in your evernote account. Each note can be up to 25 MB in size (Premium 100MB)
Notebooks: Organize your notes into notebooks of related notes. Notebooks for projects, for home, for work. Whatever works. You can have up to 250 notebooks. Each note can only be in one notebook at a time. Just like a filing cabinet. Kind of restrictive really.
Tags: Keywords to help you locate your notes. You can use as many tags as you like. Some people skip the whole idea of notebooks and just assign notebook-type names as tags. This makes a lot of sense for retrievability.

Synchonizing : Whether you add a note on your Android, iPad, Mac, PC or another supported device, all your content is synchronized back to your web-based storage at evernote.com. Magic. Never lose your notes again.
Adding Content : Clip a web page, highlight text in an article, take a picture, record audio, write text, upload files, scan documents, email notes to your private Evernote email address - content can be added in many ways.
Searching : Built in search looks for keywords anywhere in your notes and tags. It can even find words that may have appeared in an image. Text searchable images, magic. Premium users can also search the content of their uploaded PDF files.
Interfaces : Important to keep in mind that the EN interfaces vary from device to device. The desktop PC version is very different than than the iPad app.
Share : Notes and notebooks can be shared. Free accounts can have public content that is "view-only". Premium users can also allow others to edit content.

How to Write A Paper Using Evernote - Terrific article on organizing your research, notes, draft version and final paper.
Busyness - Create a free account to access Evernote training videos and tips.
Evernote Tutorial by Erica Dekker and Athir Mahmud

Remember people you meet! Take their picture and nametag at a conference
Business cards - Scan them, toss them, the text will be searchable in EN
Scan artwork, your kids artwork that is - Scan those bits of artwork that they bring home and then you'll always have them.
Pics, Pics, Pics - Use the mobile apps photo option - take pictures of items in stores w prices to compare later. Nice wine at dinner, pic of the wine list or the bottle label. Library display & layout ideas, design inspirations, signs for businesses, flower ideas (include the labels), museum exhibit signs to read in more detail later, book covers for your "to-read" list, etc, etc.
Recipes - clip recipes from webpages, scan from magazines. Tag them, use folders and stacks to organize. Add your own variations. Add notes about when you served them, menus, etc. Share recipe folders with friends.
Reading Articles - Read articles using Clearly addon, highlight sections. Article and highlights are saved to your account.