The simplest productivity feature in Evernote I didn’t know

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16 responses to “The simplest productivity feature in Evernote I didn’t know”

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   Ian Gordon

   August 10, 2012

   Love this tip! (I’m a pretty big fan of pickles too)

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2. 

   Bob Reed

   August 10, 2012

   In the words of the late Johnny Carson, “I did not know that…”

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   Steven Buehler

   August 10, 2012

   Failed to add: This feature is also available on the Android version, but NOT on the version for BlackBerry Playbook (the playbook converts everything to plain text; it really needs an update–you listening, @Evernote?!?)

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   abelniak

   August 10, 2012

   Two huge things that I love… [1] the evernote screen clipper as Chrome extension; [2] determining what your ‘secret’ evernote email address is, so you can archive/save useful/important content that you might get via email, and route it to Evernote, w/o having to c/p it.

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      Stephan Hovnanian

      August 10, 2012

      the email feature is fabulous…I Bcc: it in client communication for important emails so I have a central place to access the info (that ISN’T my inbox). Did you know you could put hashtags in the subject line and they’ll convert to tags?

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         Christopher S. Penn

         August 17, 2012

         Very nice!

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5. 

   Ayaz

   August 11, 2012

   Excellent post and worthy reading this and certainly I never read like this before and you have provided it with a great idea. Thanks for sharing great knowledge 🙂

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6. 

   Scott Ellis

   August 11, 2012

   Checklists in Evernote are awesome because it keeps your todo’s in the context of the notes in which they were created. One downside is that you don’t get a standalone consolodated list. However I’ve started using Egretlist on my iPhone for that and it’s wonderful, integrates nicely with Evernote.

   You can also use the search operators in Evernote to find notes with open todo’s in them by just typing todo:true in the Evernote search bar. Helpful stuff!!!

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      Andy Traub

      December 15, 2012

      Is Egrelist like CheckEver converting them to todo lists?

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7. 

   danieljohnsonjr

   August 18, 2012

   I create a note for dates work needs to be done. That way I can scan the notebook to see when I have work due. The checkboxes really help.

   I’ve also been using the recorder for recording notes, sometimes with the speech to text functionality. I just wish there was a way to edit the Evernote audio.

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   Rohn Jay Miller

   December 14, 2012

   There’s a couple of design flaws in the “checkbox” function on Evernote. One that bit me when I created my first “to do” list was that I first built the list, then highlighted all the items, then pressed the checkbox button on the toolbar. In Windows this would have added a checkbox in front of each item–as in Word, for example. My result? All 30 items were deleted (forever) and replaced with a single checkbox. (D’oh!)

   1. Evernote should allow “checkboxing” using the Windows (and Apple) paradigm of highlighting, clicking the box, adding a checkbox in front of each highlighted item.

   2. Evernote should have some form of “back” button for this use case and for all other use cases.

   Second problem with the checkbox function in Evernote is that the checkboxes are simply cosmetic. You can check them, but they don’t remove/archive the checked item.

   3. There should be *options* in Evernote to keep a checked item in the note (as it is now,) archive the item, or delete the item.

   I’ve reposted this to Evernote, just adding it here for further context.

   Thanks for pointing this out Chris–RJ

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      Andy Traub

      December 15, 2012

      Evernote is adding some more controls to this feature in 2013 and you can use an iPhone app called CheckEver to view notes in todo list format on your phone. Very slick.

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      1. 

         mmodesti

         July 3, 2013

         But only on your iPhone. I downloaded it thinking I had discovered a key to the universe and realized it was useless – I have an iPad and a Mac, but not an iPhone.

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            Andy Traub

            July 3, 2013

            You can view any iPhone app on your iPad. Not quite useless. Not sure why you’d need the app for your Mac when you can just access the Evernote app on your Mac.

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               mmodesti

               August 6, 2013

               I was trying to use it on the iPad. Turns out the iPhone is the way to go and it’s *very* useful! Thanks Andy !
9. 

   noebie

   August 13, 2019

   most excellent – thanks to you and to the pixie for pointing this out

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