
Keep tabs on inventoryĮvernote may not be robust enough to replace your inventory-management software, but it’s an excellent tool for keeping tabs on the various items you sell, along with basic pricing information. Evernote digitizes and filters receipts with OCR.

Just forward notes or received messages to this address, and they’ll automatically be converted into notes behind the scenes.įorget about that receipts shoebox. When you create your account, Evernote assigns you a custom email address to use. Not an Outlook user? Use the “email to Evernote” capability to send any message directly to Evernote. First, Outlook users can use the “Add to Evernote 4” button that appears in the toolbar to send the full text of an email to Evernote as a note at the touch of a button. Evernote gives you a couple of options for upgrading the way email is archived. Storing email permanently in a webmail folder or within Outlook is usually fine, but it means you have to have access to your inbox in order to read it. To create a note on the go, navigate to the notebook you want to work in, then click the oversized plus-sign ( +) button at the bottom of the screen. Adding content from within the mobile app may be less intuitive than it should be to new users. They’re most useful when you have common but more general terms that you might want to search across all of your notebooks: “2012 taxes,” “personal,” or “urgent,” for example. Tags are especially useful when you’re embedding nontext content, since everything in Evernote is searchable. When you create a note, you can give it multiple Tags, by clicking the “Click to add tag” button in Windows or the Info button (an i in a circle) in the mobile app. (Right-click to rename it.)įor example, if you used Evernote to keep an archive of payroll, each paycheck would be a note, each employee would be a notebook, and various classes of employees (full-time, part-time, contractor) might be a stack.Īdd tags by clicking the appropriate box above the note itself. Just drag one notebook to another to automatically create a stack.

Setting up notebooks tends to be easier on a computer than in a mobile app, so it’s a good idea to configure your notebooks ahead of time on a PC, even if you leave them empty to start. Notes are most useful when organized into various Notebooks, essentially a folder full of notes. In Evernote terms, every page you create is its own Note. It pays to understand a bit about Evernote’s terminology, which isn’t always intuitive, before you start filling the app up with content. Evernote’s core functionality is in storing your notes and keeping them organized and synchronized, in real time, among all your devices.
