For me, having 12K notes in the system, it’s worth the price for the added features. FYI, I am an Evernote Premium user and have been almost since the beginning, with short forays into the free version occasionally. I discuss some of these differences in the first article also. You can click on the Plans link to get an idea on pricing, but the free plan should suffice for long enough that you can determine if it is worth paying for. That is the one we will be using, and I encourage you to get started for free. So, head over to and sign up.īefore you go further, I want you to notice the Sign Up For Free button. But for the screenshots in future articles, I needed a new, blank account, so I will be using that on the web.

For this tutorial, I will be using the web version, although I highly recommend the desktop version. The first thing to do is to open an account and download the software and apps. If you have decided to use it for one or more of the reasons cited in that article, then this one will help you get started. Like others, I wish it did more, and hopefully, that will come. Despite glacier-like development over the last few years, I still think it’s the best at what it does. It is worth checking out to determine if you even want to get started with it. If you haven’t read the first article, there is a link to it below. So, I guess it’s time to write a follow-up.

Many people have asked that I expand on the article and continue the series. The article has become my all-time best performer with over 4,000 views and I get comments and questions about it daily.

I intended the article to be a one-off introduction. The idea arose from everyone calling it a ‘note-taking app,” including Evernote itself. Mostly, I wanted to clarify what it was good for and what it wasn’t, so people that hadn’t tried it could evaluate whether it fits their needs. Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on UnsplashĪ few weeks ago, I wrote an article called, “An Introduction to Evernote, What it is and what it is not.” I’ve been using Evernote for so long, 10 years now, that I had almost forgotten what it was like to be a beginner.

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