Evernote Tutorial: The Best Way to Organize Your Evernote for Maximum Productivity!

Welcome to another Technology Tuesday where I answer your tech questions to help you grow your business. Today's question comes from Linda Kingsbury who wrote into me on YouTube— love you guys— and said a question about Evernote. So she said, "Are tags and categories the same? I would love to have more categories in each notebook and even subcategories. How do I do this? Categories and subcategories in each notebook seem easier to use than tags that are in a separate section. Thanks for your great videos." Okay, so Linda, great question. Categories is not an official Evernote term. They don't recognize the word category. So there's a couple of ways that you can categorize your content in Evernote, and I'm going to hop quickly over to my computer so I could show you. So this is my Evernote, and I have two main stacks that I use here. The first is for my business notes, and the second is for TDS notes, which is another business, a dance company I'm involved in. And anytime I know that I'm gonna need a lot of different notes and I wanna categorize them into different folders, or in this case notes or notebooks, then I'll create a stack for it. And so it just gives you an extra layer of categories. So an example, if I click on my business notes stack, these will be all of the notes that I have in my business notes. If I click the arrow to expand, you'll see all of the different notebooks that I have inside. So for example, one might be articles to read. So these are articles that I've clipped that I want to read using Evernote's web clipper. And then in here are my individual notes. So I have 3 potential layers for any project that I'm working on. You have the individual notes that then you can group together into notebooks. So the, the articles, the individual note might be, uh, how can I re-engage inactive subscribers? That's an individual note. It's grouped under the notebook Articles to Read, which is then grouped under the stack Business Notes. So you have 3 levels if you want to. And I like— they're folders. I like having folders. I think in folders. I, I keep my files in folders on my computer. So it lets you go, you know, folder, folder into a note. So it gives you extra, uh, ways to classify and categorize your information. The tag system, I'm not a huge fan of. So each of these, each of these notes can be tagged. So if I click on this here, how do I re-engage inactive subscribers, I can click in here, click to add tag, and I can add a tag, call it whatever I want. And then if you scroll to the left side of your Evernote, down, there's an area called tags, and you can find all your tags. I really honestly just use it for government stuff, my government filings, so they're individually tagged so they're a little bit easier to find. But otherwise, my preference is to rely on the folder option. So, you know, you got your stack again, the notebook, and then the notes. And then I also rely on the full-text search so it's easy to find individual documents. So that's how I do it. I hope that helped, Linda. If you have any follow-up questions, let me know in the comments below. For those of you guys watching, like the video, you want to see more just like it, you can subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much, and I will see you soon.

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