11 Amazing Evernote Features Every Teacher Should Know about

July 28, 2014
Evernote is a powerful note taking web tool and mobile app. It is definitely an elemental component of teachers workflow. I have been using it for a few years now and I just can't live without it now.Evernote enables you to take notes in both text and audio format. Your notes can also include images,videos and even files. Evernote is available across different devices so that everything you do with Evernote on your computer can be automatically synced to your Evernote account on your phone or tablet.

After writing about the apps teachers can use to enhance their Evernote experience, today I am sharing with you this excellent video tutorial created by Scott. In this video, Scott outlines  11 important tips to help you tap into the full potential of Evernote. These are :

1- Create a series of unlimited notes within notebooks
2- Stacking notebooks or grouping several notebooks under one category
3- What are tags and why they are valuable
4- How to use search feature on Evernote to help you find information that you need in quick and efficient way.
5- The ability to share notes with people via a link
6- How to share notebooks with others
7- How to send stuff into Evernote via an email address
8- How to use Web Clipper to bookmark and save web content to your Evernote
9-Add audio clips to your notes
10- How to use the "take a snapshot" functionality in Evernote
11- How to add attachments into Evernote

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11 Great Apps to Enhance Your Evernote

July 25, 2014
Evernote is a powerful note taking web tool and mobile app. It is definitely an elemental component of teachers workflow. I have been using it for a few years now and I just can't live without it now.Evernote enables you to take notes in both text and audio format. Your notes can also include images,videos and even files. Evernote is available across different devices so that everything you do with Evernote on your computer can be automatically synced to your Evernote account on your phone or tablet.

With the growing popularity and widespread of Evernote, there appeared a wide variety of applications that can enhance your productivity and expand your Evernote experience. Here are some of these applications as recommended by Evernote app centre:

1- EverClip2

EverClip 2 is the easiest way to clip things on mobile to Evernote Open EverClip in the background, switch to any app, copy something you like, and it will automatically be imported to EverClip. Edit, annotate, and organize, then send to Evernote. You’ll never miss anything on mobile again!

2- Refresh

This app  aggregates information from across the web (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Evernote, email, calendar, and contacts), and intelligently surfaces helpful insights. 

3- Postach.io

Postach.io is the easiest way to publish the thoughts you're already capturing in your Evernote. If you currently have notes in your Evernote account, you're ready to publish right now.

4- Instapaper

Instapaper lets you save web pages and articles you want to read later. Connect your Instapaper account to your Evernote account and send articles that you want to remember straight into your Evernote account, where you'll always have access to them from any device.

5- eHighlighter

Prepare organized, searchable, copy-and-pastable excerpts and notes from hardcopy books, journals, and magazines and save them into Evernote.

6- Study Blue

StudyBlue is your digital backpack. Join the millions of students making, learning, and sharing amazing class materials. Use Evernote to take notes anywhere, and StudyBlue to study them everywhere.

7- ReferenceMe

ReferenceME makes managing research simple and organised. Simply scan book or journal barcodes with the ReferenceME app to create and manage references for your essay or research report.

8- Scalar

Scalar is powerful like a spreadsheet, but simple to use without rigid tables or small cells for inputting. When you’re done, save your calculations into Evernote to reference them later.

9- ClipBook

Manage your book collection and record your favorite quotes and find them later in Evernote.

10- Azendo

Azendoo is a collaborative task and project management app that lets you bring your Evernote notes at the heart of collaboration to boost work execution and communicate more intuitively!

11- LiveMinutes

Open, collaborate on your notes & save them back to Evernote with LiveMinutes.

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Useful Tips on Using Evernote to Improve Visual Thinking

June 22, 2014
Evernote is a great tool for capturing and organizing your notes. Evernote supports all types of notes including, text, image, video and audio notes. To better tap into the full potential of Evernote, you need to use the Evernote Web clipper. This is an extension that , once installed on your browser, will allow you to bookmark and save anything you come across online  to your Evernote notebook. From within this notebook, you can then organize your notes using tags and keywords or edit and add to them.

I am pretty sure the majority of you are or have already used Evernote for note taking but what about using it to improve your visual thinking? Well I never thought about it either till I stumbled upon this wonderful video tutorial from Sacha in which she provides some very useful tips on how to use Evernote to think visually. The tutorial is only 16 minutes long but is definitely a must watch. I am also attaching an illustrative visual (sketchnote) created by Sacha that sums the core ideas behind using Evernote for visual thinking.

How to use Evernote to improve your visual thinking

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Three Good Ways to Be Productive With Evernote

April 14, 2014
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve your productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes searchable, whether are at home, at work, or on the go.

Below are three good ways to tap into the full potential of Evernote.

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