Having gotten my start in Evernote, I’ve very quickly had to try to design how it’s going to work to get the maximum benefit. I quickly came up with three tricks to gain immediate benefit. Yesterday you saw a lot of how I organize it. Now, for how to USE it.
- Clip everything you find important. How you do it is up to you. As I get to my last 10% of my space for the month, I switch automatically to bookmarks. That way I’ve got it, and in a few days I can start grabbing again.
- To Be Reviewed and Read Later tags. I add both, and try to look at those tags from time to time to see what I’ve forgotten. I’ve clipped a LOT of articles lately, and so I’ve got a LOT that need to be reviewed later.
- Timers and reminders! You can set a timer when you’ve got something you know you want to review that week. I do that from time to time, and it lets me know I need to read this.
In addition, if you’re reminding yourself to journal and make to-do and to-buy lists in Evernote (bet ya never thought of that!!!), you’ll constantly be looking in it. Recently, going through and making sure tags are up to date, I found a to-buy list for survival/prepping items I’d forgotten about. If you review your tags once a month, you’ll constantly be catching these things you’d forgotten about!
Conclusion
These are three (well, five, really) ways I make sure I’m getting the maximum benefit out of Evernote. What are some ways you’re getting maximum benefit out of Evernote?
