Evernote Basic, Plus, or Premium have the productivity features to help you do more. Upgrade for bigger uploads, offline notes, and fast search. Enter your best email address in the text box and click 'Sign Up'. Note: If you don't want to use your email address as your account name, click 'Change' and follow the instructions. Evernote checks username availability as you type (usernames are not case-sensitive). Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync.
Evernote is a life saver — literally because I have some emergency information stored in there — but also because it's a simple way to organize all the pieces of my life. If you haven't started using it yet, let me share how to sign up for Evernote.
How to Sign Up For Evernote
Click HERE.
Enter your best email address in the text box and click 'Sign Up'.
Note: If you don't want to use your email address as your account name, click 'Change' and follow the instructions.
Evernote checks username availability as you type (usernames are not case-sensitive). If the username is available, the word 'Available' appears below the username field (other word).
Evernote Sign In Online
Type in a Password.
How To Use Evernote Tutorial
Next you're taken to the 'Almost There' screen where you will need to enter a password. Your password must be 6 to 64 characters and may contain letters, numbers and punctuation, but no other symbols. Spaces are not allowed.
Try to choose a strong password because you will end up keeping important information in Evernote and you'll want to protect it.
Click 'Agree'.
After you enter your password, the license agreement appears. Read it (or ignore it if you're like most people) and click 'agree'.
Download & Run the App.
At this point you will need to download the application.
On a Mac: Drag the Evernote icon to the Applications folder. Once you see the message that the application has downloaded, click 'Open'.
On a Windows PC: The Evernote executable file should start downloading itself, but if not click the download icon to begin installation.
Click 'Run' to start the installation and wait for the application to install.
Confirm Your Account.
A confirmation screen will appear listing your Evernote e-mail address and asking you to confirm that you want to create the account. Click 'confirm registration.'
(If you don't already have the Evernote software, you can click Download Evernote in this screen to download the software.)
Check Your eMail.
Evernote sends an email to the address you supplied in Step 2.
Evernote Web
Save the email in a permanent folder in your e-mail program so you can conveniently open it in all your web browsers and on all your devices or bookmark the login page in your web browser.
Confirm your identity.
When you click the link in the confirmation email, you see the welcome screen. Your registration is complete, and you can click the link shown to go Evernote.
Login
Click 'Sign In', then enter your username and password. You can also check the 'Remember Me for a Week' box if you don't want to reenter your password on this computer. Note: Never check this box when you're working on a public computer.
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After I started using Evernote, it took me quite a few months to realize the full potential of one of its features: the email address.
Let's first have a quick introduction about Evernote.
Evernote is a note taking app, but with so many powerful features that people tend to use it for everything, including to-do list and task manager. Personally, I only use it as my reference manager for my own notes and for online stuff. Indeed, the Web clipper allows downloading any webpage, either as a bookmark or the full webpage or just a selection, you choose. I use it as a read-it-later app and love that it allows highlighting and to add notes to the downloaded article. There are also features which allow scanning notes and Evernote recognizes your hand-writing allowing you to search the text of your own notes (I know it's a bit creepy), you can even scan people business cards, you can also add photos and audio files. For more details on all this, see the further reading list at the end 👇
OK, so now, what about the email? First question is actually: how do we use our normal personal and professional email inboxes every day?
Many people use their email inboxes as to-do lists, without even being aware of it. Don't you? I mean like how often did you remember that you had to do something because you saw again that email from 3 days ago in your inbox? OK, me too. That's fine, the only thing is that anyone can send us emails. Meaning we're basically allowing anyone to add items directly in our to-do lists all the time!! No surprise dealing with emails became so frustrating. If we never empty our inbox, then it just turns into a huge mix of to-do items, references, emails for which we're waiting for a reply, someday/maybe ideas, FYI stuff, and junk/spam… Here a nice blog post on the subject, otherwise I recommend reading the Getting Things Done (GTD) book from David Allen.
Well, I'm not saying that Evernote can resolve all this, but at least we can use it to clean out our professional email inboxes from references and someday/maybe materials.
Concretely: first we can use Evernote email to simply email ourselves an idea, like when we're at home and get that sudden inspiration, or when someone suggests a paper to check out or in any situation like this. We can also transfer someone else email with reference materials towards our Evernote.
Evernote Basic, Plus, or Premium have the productivity features to help you do more. Upgrade for bigger uploads, offline notes, and fast search. Enter your best email address in the text box and click 'Sign Up'. Note: If you don't want to use your email address as your account name, click 'Change' and follow the instructions. Evernote checks username availability as you type (usernames are not case-sensitive). Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync.
Evernote is a life saver — literally because I have some emergency information stored in there — but also because it's a simple way to organize all the pieces of my life. If you haven't started using it yet, let me share how to sign up for Evernote.
How to Sign Up For Evernote
Click HERE.
Enter your best email address in the text box and click 'Sign Up'.
Note: If you don't want to use your email address as your account name, click 'Change' and follow the instructions.
Evernote checks username availability as you type (usernames are not case-sensitive). If the username is available, the word 'Available' appears below the username field (other word).
Evernote Sign In Online
Type in a Password.
How To Use Evernote Tutorial
Next you're taken to the 'Almost There' screen where you will need to enter a password. Your password must be 6 to 64 characters and may contain letters, numbers and punctuation, but no other symbols. Spaces are not allowed.
Try to choose a strong password because you will end up keeping important information in Evernote and you'll want to protect it.
Click 'Agree'.
After you enter your password, the license agreement appears. Read it (or ignore it if you're like most people) and click 'agree'.
Download & Run the App.
At this point you will need to download the application.
On a Mac: Drag the Evernote icon to the Applications folder. Once you see the message that the application has downloaded, click 'Open'.
On a Windows PC: The Evernote executable file should start downloading itself, but if not click the download icon to begin installation.
Click 'Run' to start the installation and wait for the application to install.
Confirm Your Account.
A confirmation screen will appear listing your Evernote e-mail address and asking you to confirm that you want to create the account. Click 'confirm registration.'
(If you don't already have the Evernote software, you can click Download Evernote in this screen to download the software.)
Check Your eMail.
Evernote sends an email to the address you supplied in Step 2.
Evernote Web
Save the email in a permanent folder in your e-mail program so you can conveniently open it in all your web browsers and on all your devices or bookmark the login page in your web browser.
Confirm your identity.
When you click the link in the confirmation email, you see the welcome screen. Your registration is complete, and you can click the link shown to go Evernote.
Login
Click 'Sign In', then enter your username and password. You can also check the 'Remember Me for a Week' box if you don't want to reenter your password on this computer. Note: Never check this box when you're working on a public computer.
Click HERE to see how I use Evernote to organize my life.
You can do this!
Want a simpler life?
Join our simplifying, organizing, life-changing community!
Click here to join the 30 Days to Organized Community!
Get weekly encouragement and real-life strategies to organize your life PLUS receive a FREE 10 Minutes a Day Decluttering Tool Kit!
You'll receive:
- 10 Minutes a Day Declutter Calendar — focus on one small area each day of the month
- 50 Ten Minute Tasks – to organize your life one baby step at a time
- 10 Minute Task Calendar – blank calendar to fill in your own 10 Minute Tasks
After I started using Evernote, it took me quite a few months to realize the full potential of one of its features: the email address.
Let's first have a quick introduction about Evernote.
Evernote is a note taking app, but with so many powerful features that people tend to use it for everything, including to-do list and task manager. Personally, I only use it as my reference manager for my own notes and for online stuff. Indeed, the Web clipper allows downloading any webpage, either as a bookmark or the full webpage or just a selection, you choose. I use it as a read-it-later app and love that it allows highlighting and to add notes to the downloaded article. There are also features which allow scanning notes and Evernote recognizes your hand-writing allowing you to search the text of your own notes (I know it's a bit creepy), you can even scan people business cards, you can also add photos and audio files. For more details on all this, see the further reading list at the end 👇
OK, so now, what about the email? First question is actually: how do we use our normal personal and professional email inboxes every day?
Many people use their email inboxes as to-do lists, without even being aware of it. Don't you? I mean like how often did you remember that you had to do something because you saw again that email from 3 days ago in your inbox? OK, me too. That's fine, the only thing is that anyone can send us emails. Meaning we're basically allowing anyone to add items directly in our to-do lists all the time!! No surprise dealing with emails became so frustrating. If we never empty our inbox, then it just turns into a huge mix of to-do items, references, emails for which we're waiting for a reply, someday/maybe ideas, FYI stuff, and junk/spam… Here a nice blog post on the subject, otherwise I recommend reading the Getting Things Done (GTD) book from David Allen.
Well, I'm not saying that Evernote can resolve all this, but at least we can use it to clean out our professional email inboxes from references and someday/maybe materials.
Concretely: first we can use Evernote email to simply email ourselves an idea, like when we're at home and get that sudden inspiration, or when someone suggests a paper to check out or in any situation like this. We can also transfer someone else email with reference materials towards our Evernote.
Then, here is my revelation: you can subscribe to websites newsletters with it!! (I know, you got spoiled from the title ^^)
For example, instead of receiving Pubmed alerts in the middle of your crazy rushed day together with all your professional emails, get the alert in Evernote and process this inbox at your own pace :) Now what about ResearchGate, Scopus, Nature, Science, or someone's blog like mine? It's all the same! These are all reference materials, read-it-later materials, non-urgent stuff which can wait a few days for you to read when it's an appropriate time for you :)
Now's the hard question, is this free? Well, you can first try out the free version of Evernote which is limited in quantity of data. However, it won't have all features… Indeed, for the email you'll need to get the premium version. Prices depend on countries, for Europe it's about 7€ per month or 60€ per year but make sure to check out whether they're having sales. Thankfully, here the good news: students can get 50% discount!
On Evernote website it says: '*Offer available for new or Basic Evernote users who can verify eligibility with a valid .edu or .ac email address on the following page (university-issued emails from Canada, Germany, and Switzerland may also qualify)'
I first used the free version for a couple of months to try it out, and actually I must admit that at the beginning I found it very frustrated, and I still do from time to time. Indeed, it took me a little while to find how to organize notes, notebooks and stacks in a way which suits me and to choose tags. Evernote is far from being perfect but does a perfect software even exists?
Thanks for reading and if you have other tips about using Evernote in academia, please let us know in the comments below :)👇
Disclosure: nop this is not a sponsored article and there is no affiliated marketing links, this is just me sharing tricks and having no ideas of how to market things online anyway ^^'
However, may you be interested in more nerdy articles, here I listed some easy Mac Keyboard shortcutsto use and here I suggested some solutions to protect your eyes from screens light.
Further reading:
- Two articles on nextscientist.com where Julio Peironcely details for example how to use it to help in scientific papers writing:
- Robert Talbert is a great inspiration for how to use the GTD methodology in academia, he also writes about Evernote:
- Evernote is often cited as one of the cool apps to have in research:
