Getting More Done With Evernote

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• Major new feature release, Tasks in Early Access for Evernote 10.x+, first impressions with fellow Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises

For full show notes and more, please visit https://gettingmoredonewithevernote.com/post/first-impressions-of-evernote-tasks-with-stacey-harmon.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

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• A conversation with Nate Fortin, SVP of Design, about Evernote's newest feature, Home, a one-stop dashboard to get your day started in Evernote...which I covered in Episode 014.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

I invited Nate Fortin, Senior Vice President of Design at Evernote, back to discuss the design decisions behind Evernote's newest feature release, Home. As Nate noted, Home in Evernote is "just the start." Enjoy the conversation!

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, and host of Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

NOTE: The next live, free five-week Evernote masterclass, Pushing the Envelope With Evernote (https://focusatwork.co/evernotemasterclass), is starting on May 3, 2021! Learn more and register here.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

As you may have noticed, we have new Evernote apps on Apple iOS and macOS as well as Android and Windows. With the new suite, Evernote has brought to fruition a new user experience; new applications built from the ground up. To discuss all the changes and why, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nate Fortin, Senior Vice President of Design at Evernote, to discuss the design language Evernote went about developing, the process and what those changes mean for users.

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

Evernote announced today the launch of its brand-new feature, Home. Evernote is calling this feature “Home in Evernote” according to its Release Notes...stating Home as “a new one-stop dashboard that puts the information you need front and center--neatly organized and instantly available.” It's rolling out to Evernote Desktop and then will follow with bringing Home to Evernote Mobile after that.

Watch the "first look" video I recorded.

And, register for the Evernote masterclass series!

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

• New Evernote for Desktop version 10.x releases (macOS and Windows), first impressions with fellow Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises
  

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• New Evernote for Desktop version 10.x releases (macOS and Windows), first impressions with Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises
  
• Stacey has created a resource center about all the changes and updates to the new Evernote apps: Evernote v10 Resource Center.
  

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

• New Evernote for iOS 10.0 release, first impressions with fellow Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• New Evernote for iOS release, first impressions with Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises
• Stacey noted her tutorial, Evernote Feature Tutorial: Checklists vs Checkboxes (iOS 10.0)
• Also, this is the interview with Ian Small, Evernote’s CEO, that was mentioned in the episode also.
  

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

My special guest today, in honor of the newly-released Evernote apps for iOS and iPadOS, is Ian Small, CEO of Evernote.

About Ian Small

Ian Small is CEO at Evernote, the app that launched a personal productivity movement for knowledge workers around the world. Under Ian’s leadership, Evernote has found the courage to get back to basics, launching a new era for the company and building upon a decade of growth.

Ian brings more than 25 years of global product, technology, and business leadership experience to his current role. Trained as an engineer, Ian's career has evolved from designing and building user experiences at Apple into product leadership and large-scale business management as CEO of TokBox and global Chief Data Officer for Telefónica SA.

In addition to his current role at Evernote, Ian sits on the board of directors for Lumentum and is an advisory board member for Alphabet subsidiary Loon (a graduate of Google’s X Lab). He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, and has earned more than 10 patents.

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This is also a worthwhile read of a recent interview of Ian Small: Evernote’s CEO on the company’s long, tricky journey to fix itself

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That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me @rsidneysmith (Twitter), and please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

Stacey Harmon, Evernote Certified Consultant, and I discuss Behind the Scenes: Uniting the Evernote Apps. Watch the video and listen to our commentary.

Release Notes for Version 6.23

• Issue with logging in using Google sign-in
  
• Issue with access to Google Drive/Contacts in the app
  
• Items in “Shared with Me” disappeared when searching for an invalid keyword
  
• Restarts after crashes required the user to first “End Task” via Task Manager
  
• Issue with “Send a Copy” if email address contained a capital letter
  

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• “Mid-Year Review: Our Progress so Far, and How You Can Help” by Evernote CEO Ian Small
• New Evernote Web doesn’t contain the functionality to open note links in desktop software, add/remove Reminders, and not synchronizing Shortcuts. I hope they return soon!
• Integrating OmniFocus and Evernote with Evernote Certified Consultant Tim Stringer, Technically Simple, which provides coaching, consulting and training to support people and organizations in using technology in a productive way, and Learn OmniFocus, a membership site to learn how to use OmniFocus, the personal task manager for Mac, iOS and Web.
• OmniFocus AppleScript Directory
• Support Note.scpt
• Follow Tim Stringer on Twitter

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Evernote published a new Behind the Scenes video, “Bringing Search to Life in Evernote Web,” and here's my commentary with Stacey Harmon, Evernote Certified Consultant, Harmon Enterprises on what Evernote CEO Ian Small and May discussed about upcoming developments for Evernote.

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

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I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Encrypting content in Evernote
  Saferoom
  7-Zip
• Evernote Behind the Scenes video, Help Share the Future of Evernote, commentary with Stacey Harmon, Harmon Enterprises - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/121004-help-shape-the-future-of-evernote
  Clarification on using beta software side-by-side: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/121004-help-shape-the-future-of-evernote/?do=findComment&comment=544665 (They will be able to be used independently, but we'll see if they use the same notes database.)
• Evernote for iOS 8.23 is now available in the Apple App Store
• Evernote for Android 8.12 is now available in the Google Play App Store

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Use index notes to search your media (physical, digital and audio books in this example) that are not in Evernote.
  - Clippings (synchronizes your highlights and annotations from Kindle to Evernote)
  - Example: “How to Search Your Entire Book Collection With This Evernote System” (Make Use Of)
• Getting Evernote integrated with your favorite task manager with fellow Evernote Certified Consultant Frank Buck, EdD, author of Get Organized! Time Management for School Leaders, and regular speaker on time management, using Taskclone.
• Local Notebooks are awesome if you want to keep private notes. But, it comes with some risks. And,if you use Local Notebooks, beware of accidentally moving notes between synchronized notebooks and local notebooks.

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life. 

 I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• The Verge recently published an article, “The Best Note-taking Apps for Class, Work, and Life.” I rant about its flawed comparisons of note-taking software on the market today to fit “class, work and life.”

There are better comparisons of note-taking software out there, these among them:

• Comparison of note-taking software
• The 10 Best Note Taking Apps in 2018
• The Best Note-Taking Apps of 2019*

*The article author noted that the max file upload size was 50MB and that’s not accurate. You can upload files up to the size of the note size limit, which is 25 MB for Evernote Basic, and 200 MB for Evernote Premium accounts.

• Next, Evernote showed up in The New York Times, in an article, “A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel.” 

On the whole, I thought it closed positively about Evernote and its current state. 

Ian Small responded in the Evernote discussion forum.

• Continuing on, I’ve seen hints of this for some time, but this is the first time I’ve seen an Evernote Employee explicitly say so publicly. And so, Evernote for Linux sounds like it’s coming soon!
• Finally, Evernote for macOS 7.12 has released.

Note: Version 7.12 and updates going forward will only support macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or higher (10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina and beyond). 

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Evernote is hiring a Sr. Engineering Manager.
• Our lately weekly dose of Evernote Behind the Scenes videos is out with another video, Behind the Scenes: Improving the Tag Experience for Evernote on Mobile. I welcome Stacey Harmon, Evernote Certified Consultant, Evernote Regional Leader for North America, and owner of Harmon Enterprises, back to delight in all the upcoming changes coming to Evernote’s mobile apps regarding the tags experience!
• Fujitsu has announced officially it was no longer supporting the ScanSnap for Evernote Edition software as of mid-2019. Evernote has provided instructions and a comparison chart for what that means for iX500 owners, all of which I see as great (and a great relief!). Also, note that iX500’s have been discontinued and support end-of-life is coming in the next few years; it’s good to start preparing for that.

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life. 

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Evernote recently put out their most recent video, Behind the Scenes: Adding Web Content to Notes in the Evernote Editor. I’ve got fellow Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America, Stacey Harmon, back on Getting More Done With Evernote with me to discuss.
• Updates to Evernote Web Note Editor Beta - Stacey and I also discuss some interesting new features being tested in the Evernote Web Note Editor Beta.
• Intermittent Sync Error on Evernote for macOS 7.11 (published in mid-June) - A bug has been reported and engineers are working on a problem with synchronization in the latest public release of Evernote for macOS (7.11). Evernote Employee Nick noted, “This is a known issue that we already logged with engineering, but has been very spotty to reproduce. We found that most users were able to get rid of the problem by quitting and reopening the app, or by logging out and logging back into their Evernote app.”

That’s all for now. To learn more and follow me please visit gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

• Evernote announced a new beta program,
• Commentary on the new Evernote video, Behind the Scenes: Achieving Feature Parity in Evernote Web, with Stacey Harmon, Evernote Certified Consultant

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least enjoy digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Evernote Beta Program
• Behind the Scenes: Achieving Feature Parity in Evernote Web, with Stacey Harmon, Evernote Certified Consultant
  • Stacey Harmon: “Why Michael Hyatt is Wrong about Organizing Evernote with Tags”
• Evernote system limits
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Evernote Events
  • Achieve Inbox Zero with Evernote - 7/17/19 Webinar by Stacey Harmon
  • Using Evernote With Getting Things Done® - 7/23/19 Webinar by Ray Sidney-Smith
  • Starting Fresh with Evernote - 8/14/19 Webinar by Stacey Harmon

Learn more and follow me at gettingmoredonewithevernote.com. That’s all for now. This is Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote. Here’s to your productive life.

Hello, and welcome to Getting More Done With Evernote, Episode 001.

On this episode, I’m going to cover:

• A major change to Evernote’s integration with LinkedIn,
• The Behind the Scenes Evernote video series so far, and
• recent, notable updates and bugs on Evernote Web, the note editor, Windows and macOS apps.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least digital note-taking, a little more with each episode.

• Important changes to LinkedIn integrations
• NEW VIDEO: Behind the Scenes: An Interview with Evernote CEO Ian Small

1. New Firefox Evernote Web client coming soon!
2. More Behind the Scenes video coming.
3. More consistent tag implementation across Evernote product suite. Yay!
4. Ian Small is an introvert... He thanks the Evernote community for watching and engaging with the video scenes. Post and engage in the forums, discussion.evernote.com.

• macOS bug in Spotlight; Evernote is working on it. For what it’s worth, I’m using macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and Spotlight is working for me. So, perhaps it’s something that happens with Spotlight’s code in Mojave that changed. Evernote is working on fixing that.
• Editor Preview -  Auto-formatting features (Web and desktop) - not quite markdown but useful to power users looking for less switching between keyboard and mouse for formatting. See How to use auto-formatting for full details on the features. Also, Marxi.co is a Web-based Markdown editor for Evernote, but note that notes are only editable within Marxico.
• Evernote for Windows (July 1, 2019) - Release Notes for Version 6.19.2 Public (308555)

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Note: Versions 6.19 is supported in Windows OS versions 7 and up.

Windows 6.19

New:

- Automated file splitting on export of enex files. We are making it easier to backup and import files, especially on file systems that do not support large files or systems with low memory...

-Security update

Fixed:

- Korean characters are changed to Kanji or question marks in Work Chat

- Fixed an error in export option when selecting all notes (Ctrl + A)

- Cursor jumps to beginning of note body during sync while editing note in shared notebook

- Fixed an issue with changing Evernote DB location

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Learn more and follow me at anchor.fm/gettingmoredone. So, that’s all for now. This is Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote, signing out. Here’s to your productive life.

I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least digital note-taking, a little more.

In addition to our timely product updates and expert interviews, I want to make this interactive with you, to bring you into the conversation. Do you have a question about how to make Evernote work with your workflow? Perhaps you need to build out Evernote for real estate transaction tracking. Or, you want help rethinking how Evernote can track your projects or tasks using Personal Kanban, or Getting Things Done (GTD)? Send us your Evernote questions and conundrums, and if we’re able to answer it, we’ll read or play it and answer it here on the podcast.

Learn more and follow me at anchor.fm/gettingmoredone. So, that’s all for now. This is Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote, signing out. Here’s to your productive life.