Master Evernote: The Unofficial Guide to Organizing Your Life with Evernote (Plus 75 Ideas for Getting Started)

Create a list of favorite brands, clothing sizes and products your family members use. This is useful if you want to surprise someone important with a gift (such as a new shirt) and you can’t quite remember their measurements or preferences.

However if you do a search like this: notebook:[nb name] followed by the keyword, Evernote will only search in that notebook for the content.

If you get nothing else from this book, hopefully you’ll learn that IFTTT provides a treasure trove of ideas for using Evernote to save time and organize your life.

Idea #62: Create a Standard Food Shopping List

Fortunately, the folks at Evernote provide an additional level of security beyond the standard account password. If you want to encrypt any part of a note, simply highlight the text that needs to be protected. Then “right click” or “tap” on the text, choose “Encrypt Selected Text,” then enter the passphrase for decrypting the text.

I recommend creating a default notebook for any note you haven’t organized and sorted.

but my advice is to group everything according to the major areas of your life.

Choose Tools >> Import Folders >> Click Add.

there might be times when you want to do a search using just tags. Here are a few ways to do this: • Tag:[tag name] will pull up every tag with that name. • Tag:[tag name*] will generate tags that start with a specific string of text.