[Reprint] All-Around notes and resource collection software-Evernote

Are you used to taking notes or writing diaries? Are you used to collecting wonderful articles on the Internet? Notes at home in the company cannot be conveniently synchronized for easy viewing? Are you afraid others will peek at your diary? If you have the above requirements, you can try this powerful Note Software-Evernote.

Evernote is an extremely convenient note-taking software similar to OneNote. It can help you collect and sort network resources conveniently and quickly, for example, a wonderful short article you see on the network, for example, a beautiful image. You do not need to copy or paste any new files. You can save them with just one click, and synchronize these resources to the network, you can easily view your notes wherever you can connect to the Internet. If you have not installed the Evernote client, you can log on to the Evernote official website to view and add and edit your notes at any time. Click to download Evernote

Evernote not only supports Windows and Mac, but also Windows Mobile. This document uses Windows as an example.

I. Software Installation

The installation of Evernote is simple. You only need to perform the following steps to install Evernote. In Figure 2, check "Install Web clipper extension tool in Internet Explorer" to install the IE Plug-in of Evernote, in the future, you can collect data directly in the IE browser to take notes. For more information, see.

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Figure 1 installation page

Figure 2 Installation Options

After the installation is complete, use Evernote for the first time. You must create an Evernote account, which can be used to log on to the client and the Evernote official website.

Figure 3 logon page

2. Create notes

Evernote is easy to operate. In Figure 4, I have marked common functions by location. For more information about English users, see.

Figure 4 main software interface

2.1 create notes

Click the create new note button on the main interface to create a new note. Click the 1 option in Figure 5 to switch the handwritten or text note mode of the note. Click option 2 in Figure 5 to open the note in the independent window.

Figure 5 creation of notes

Figure 6 Note creation in handwriting Mode

There is an interesting handwriting/graphic recognition feature in the handwriting mode. Through these features, you can recognize the graphics or text of the ghost style into regular graphics or text.

Figure 7 Original Image

As shown in 7, after selecting the two twisting graphs drawn by the author and clicking "recongnize selection as shapes, irregular images are automatically recognized and converted into regular images. Similarly, Evernote supports recongnize selection a text. Unfortunately, this function cannot recognize Chinese characters.

Figure 8 identify the converted image.

Figure 9 recognized text

In text mode, you can create text and text notes.

Figure 10 note creation in text mode

After creating the notes, you can click the synchronize button on the main interface to synchronize your diary to your account resources on the Evernote official website, so that you can browse or edit these notes on other computers through the client or web interface.

3. Quick Resource Collection

What if I want to extract some information resources on the network when I create a new note manually? Don't worry. Evernote has three ways to quickly turn network resources into your notes.

3.1 use the resource collector

Click Tools> launch universal chipper in the menu bar of the Evernote main interface to start the Evernote resource collector. We can find it in the system notification area after it is started. Right-click the resource collector icon and choose show/hide floating windows from the shortcut menu to display or hide the collection floating box of the Evernote resource collector.

Tip: You can directly execute uniclipper.exe under the evernoteinstallation directory to quickly start the resource collector.

Figure 11 show/hide a floating box

Figure 12 collection floating box of the resource collector

As shown in figure 12, the collection floating box of the resource collector is very simple. There are only two buttons, one for collecting text resources, and the other for capturing the content of the current screen (screenshot.

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In any program, you only need to select the text/image to be collected, and then press the collect text resource button in the capture floating box, you can automatically add the text or image to your Evernote as a new note. After the collection, you can click the three buttons in the prompt box in the lower-right corner of the screen to add a tag, Delete the note, and send the note by email.

Figure 13 collection process

If the text or image you select is in the webpage, Evernote automatically adds a source link to the new note to facilitate you to search for the source of the resource.

Figure 14 automatically added source links

TIPS: you do not need to open a TXT or JPG file. Select the file and click the collection button in the collection floating box, evernote automatically adds text/images in the file to your Evernote in the form of new notes.

Another button used to capture the floating frame is a screenshot. It can quickly capture the specified area of the current screen and add the captured image to your Evernote in the form of new notes.

Figure 15 screenshot capture

3.2 use browser plug-ins

If you do not like to use collectors, you can try the Evernote plug-in on the mobile browser and add the webpage content to your Evernote in the form of new notes. Currently, Evernote has browser plug-ins for IE and Firefox respectively.

Figure 16 Add new notes using the browser plug-in

3.3 use shortcuts

If you still do not like the above two methods, there is a more convenient method, that is, after selecting the content to be collected, press CTRL + ALT + V to quickly add the selected content to your Evernote in the form of new notes. To use this function, You must select "use CTRL + ALT + V to paste to new note form any application" in tools → options → tape on the main menu bar of the Evernote interface.

Figure 17 shortcut key settings

Iv. Confidentiality of notes

Although you need a password to access our Evernote account to view notes, you can do the following if your notes need to be safer. Enter a note to be encrypted, select the text to be encrypted (the image cannot be encrypted), right-click the selected text, and select encrypt selected text from the pop-up menu) or press the shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + P. In the pop-up password setting box, you can set a separate view password for the selected text, and you can also add a password prompt, in case the password is too many to remember. Then, the encrypted text is encrypted and displayed.

Figure 18 encrypt selected text

Figure 19 independent password settings

Figure 20 encrypted text

To view the encrypted text, double-click ******** and enter the password in the pop-up Password dialog box to view the encrypted content. This decryption process is temporary. When you close this note, the encrypted text will be automatically re-encrypted. If you want to permanently decrypt the encrypted text, right-click it and select "decrypt permanently.

Figure 21 view encrypted text

Figure 22 permanent decryption

5. Easy to search for notes

When there are too many notes, it is hard to find them. In Evernote, we can use the timeline on the main interface to search for notes by time; you can also classify a note into different categories to search for it by category; you can also use the property-based search option on the main interface to search by "creation time", "modification time", "content attribute", and "note source; you can also use the Evernote search function.

Figure 23 search note keywords highlighted

No Evernote Installation

Not every computer has Evernote installed. What should I do if I want to edit or check my notes on a computer without Evernote installed? It doesn't matter. As long as the computer can connect to the Internet, you can log on to the Evernote web page through this URL for online editing or viewing notes.

Figure 24 online browsing note list

Figure 25 Online Editing notes

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The Evernote experience is here. Of course, Evernote has more functions than that. If you find out more advantages or disadvantages, please try again. Now it's free.