Give Evernote a secret code (don’t forget it!), and your selection is replaced with a small menu that lets you see-if you enter the correct code-what you’ve encrypted, or you can decrypt it permanently. Select part of a note, or a whole page of spy pictures, then right click and choose “Encrypt Selected Text”. But before you create stacks and stacks of notebooks, consider instead using tags-it’s a sneaky ninja trick that makes items a lot easier to find. You can save searches you perform regularly, too.Įvernote also lets you assign notebooks-categories-to each item. The term “todo” let’s you find notes with checkboxes that are checked (todo:true) or not (todo:false), or either (todo:*). You can see what’s in, say, just two notebooks (notebook:defense notebook:spies), or search for notebooks created on a certain date (“created:August 20, 2012” or “created:200120812”). Search Like a Master With Special CodesĮvernote’s search tool hides lots of sneaky operators that let you target items that have special attributes. It takes a few minutes to set up, but it’s well worth the investment. The Secret Weapon Manifesto explains how you can organize Evernote into action, waiting, read/review, and sticky notebooks with related who, what, where and when tags. Using one of Evernote’s most useful weapons, its ability to receive e-mail, my inbox is empty and I get more done. But days and weeks would go by until, in resignation, I just moved them all to the trash. My e-ail inbox used to fill up with messages I wanted to respond to or otherwise use. He writes the documentation for Evernote, and he’s an Evernote ninja himself. If you want to be the ultimate Evernote ninja, read Brett Kelly’s Evernote Essentials ($29). “Let’s see, where’s that message from the guy who sharpens throwing axes?” Transcriptions of voicemail from Google Voice, FreedomVoice, or other services can even be sent to Evernote, too. Jot a note in Evernote’s 99 cent iPad companion, Penultimate, and almost undecipherable handwritten scribbles magically become searchable.Īnnotations and captions can be added to images or screen-grabs with Evernote’s free Skitch app, and they’re searchable along with regular text notes. Best of all, Evernote scans everything you send, so pictures of signs, wine labels, business cards, and anything else with words become searchable in Evernote. Your items become an organized collection designed to help you get things done.įrom desktop, laptop, or mobile device (Mac, PC, iOS, or Android) your items are uploaded to the Web so you can share them with your other devices and other people. Think of Evernote as an external hard-drive for your brain, a place where you can save all kinds of digital stuff: notes, pictures, audio, PDFs, web pages-even ideas for an OPEN Forum article about Evernote.īut Evernote isn’t just a higgledy-piggledy repository for your digital detritus. All you need is one unorthodox weapon- Evernote. If you’re a road warrior and use a tablet or smartphone you can be a mobile ninja. Ninja warriors specialized in unorthodox warfare.
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