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Evernote Tips and Tricks Series - #13 - Clearly - clean up what you are viewing

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I'm a huge fan and user of  Evernote , and lots of people ask me for tips on using it, so I'm starting a series of blog posts on Evernote Tips and Tricks to share some great tips and ideas for using  Evernote . Tip #13 - Clearly Evernote's Web Clipper allows you to clip a "simplified article" when clipping from a website. This feature gets rid of the side bars, ads, etc and just copies the article (occasionally it doesn't work depending on how the site was built, but it works most of the time.) It's a great way to just clip the article and not the distractions, making it easier to read, as well as taking less time to clip and using less storage space. Evernote also has a stand alone browser extension that does basically the same thing, called Clearly . Evernote Clearly is a browser extension that allows you to read online with less distractions. You simply click the extension and it hides all the distractions from blogs and articles, allowing you to read...

Evernote Tips and Tricks Series - #12 - Notebooks, Notes, Tags

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I'm a huge fan and user of  Evernote , and lots of people ask me for tips on using it, so I'm starting a series of blog posts on Evernote Tips and Tricks to share some great tips and ideas for using  Evernote . Tip #12 - Notebooks, Notes, Tags Evernote's notes and notebooks are the main part of the app. There are a lot of different ways to format and organize them.   I use notebooks, notebook stacks and tags to organize everything in Evernote. The stacks are by job/function, for example - school, consulting, personal. Then each note is a new area - lesson plans, project plans, receipts, recipes, photos, etc. Tags are used to make searching easier and to allow a note in one notebook to be "cross referenced" for search. I also use links to notes to connect notes in one notebook, into a note in another notebook.   In the last tip, Evernote Tips and Tricks Series - #11 - merge notes, create table of contents, create notebook stacks  I talk about using notebook ...