Work Smarter with Evernote

By Alexandra Samuel

Whether you’ve always wanted to try Evernote or have only dabbled with it in the past, you can take your professional life to the next level by making this tool one of your go-to systems for staying organized. Evernote can help you become more focused and effective on the joband get ahead in your career. This short, practical book shows you how.

In Work Smarter with Evernote, social media expert Alexandra Samuel demonstrates the most effective ways to use this popular (and free) web-based notebook system to:

Capture the right notes, documents, images, ideas, and inspirations
Keep the information you want always at your fingertips
Enhance collaboration by sharing and publishing your notes
Focus on the work that matters most to you and aligns best with your professional goals

The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your Evernote system and notebooks for maximum utility and ease of navigation.

Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily workand get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Release date: Dec 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781422195116

Alexandra Samuel

Alexandra Samuel is a tech speaker and data journalist who has worked remotely for most of her 25-year career. The co-founder of pioneering social media agency Social Signal, Samuel creates digital content and workshops for companies including Google, Discovery and Sprinklr. Her writing on digital productivity appears frequently in the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and she is a digital columnist for the CBC. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Introduction

This short book explains how to make your work more focused and effective with one of the most valuable software tools available today: a web-based notebook—specifically, the popular Evernote application. It shows you the best features and tips for how to capture everything you need to work smarter, prioritize the work that matters most to you, and tap the social web as a powerful tool for collaboration and expression.

Evernote is part of a new generation of social web tools that combine some of the Internet’s newest and most powerful capabilities: accessing your information from any device, collaborating through social content sharing, and organizing your content quickly and easily through keyword-based tags. As a social tool like Twitter, LinkedIn, and others, Evernote makes you not only more effective on your own, but also a more valuable and competent team member.

A web-based notebook is at the heart of this new social toolbox. Think of a web-based notebook as a cross between a traditional paper notebook (easy to use, keeps everything in one place, captures images as easily as text) and a word processor document (legible, searchable, editable) with a swirl of the social web (collaborative, tagable, and accessible online).

If you have ever wasted a minute looking for the notes you jotted down last week, wracked your brain for the name of that supplier you met last month, or wondered what you really accomplished in the last year, a web-based notebook can be a transformative tool. Getting hung up on questions like where did I put that? and what should I really do next? doesn’t just waste time and energy; it can actually keep you from achieving your full potential. By capturing all your work in one place and organizing it to keep your top priorities front and center, a web-based notebook can help you take charge of all of those thoughts and ideas—and let you take control of your priorities and get ahead in your job—in a way that works for