You collect everything in Evernote, but it’s a hodgepodge of “cards” (notes) - some face-up and others face-down, with varying amounts of information available to you at a glance. This card game is what happens with unorganized Evernote accounts. How 52-Card Pickup Relates to Organizing Evernote: You have to flip over every card revealing its face to organize it. It’s simply not possible to organize the deck without seeing the details on the card faces. Then, when you have four suit piles, you’d order each suit by number before stacking your four piles, squaring the deck, and proudly presenting it to your friend.īut if the cards are all face-down - or some are face-down with others face-up - the task is more difficult. You’d begin by corralling the cards and then you’d start sifting them around, first by suit. If the cards are all face-up on the floor, the task is fairly simple (albeit tedious). Now, let’s assume that to win the game, you must organize the deck of cards in numerical order, by suit, and present them in a tidy deck to your friend. You may know it - it’s touted as a funny prank where a friend lures you into thinking you’re playing a legitimate card game, only to have this “friend” toss the entire deck into the air, so the cards land strewn across the floor. To illustrate the value of the most important habit to practice, let's talk about the game of 52-card pickup. And if the structure doesn't yet exist, you simply create it and file your notes there. You don't need to ask, "What notebook do I file these notes in?" or "What tag should I apply to my note?" Instead, the path to an orderly account becomes clear - you just know. When you practice what you learn here in conjunction with the two points above, organization naturally emerges. Habits are the secret sauce to creating and maintaining an organized Evernote account, and this blog post dives into the key habit to adopt. If you’re doubtful of the power of search, read this: Search…to Organize Evernote? ? (Most Users Miss This).Ĭonsistently Practice Smart Habits. You can rely on search as your first line of organization. Rely on Search: My students who confidently say, “My Evernote is organized!” all know a secret. A key part of what I teach in The Academy: An Evernote Training Membership is every feature Evernote offers. Evernote is powerful, and your fluency impacts both the possibilities you see for organizing your stuff and also dramatically affects the efficiency and effectiveness of your workflows.
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What I know from over a decade of coaching users on how to organize Evernote (as well as keeping my own life organized with Evernote since 2010) is that an organized account happens when users do three things: However, there are foundational practices you can do that result in an organized Evernote. Every workflow is unique and the flexibility of Evernote creates multiple viable options for organizing anything. The truth is, there’s no quick fix 10-step process to prescribe. The top question students ask me is, “How do I organize my Evernote account?”