Getting Started

What is Evernote and how do I sign up?

Evernote is a Web Service that helps users manage all the digital information most relevant to them. The Service can be accessed through free, user-friendly Evernote software running on a personal computer or mobile device, or any Web browser.

If you’re like many people in the world today who are trying to keep up with an ever increasing onslaught of information, whether personal or business, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all the information that you care about - and to find it when and where you need it.

Evernote can help. Our services and software are so simple, easy to use, and valuable that you’ll wonder how you ever got by without them. You’ll always have access to your information, even as the devices and applications that you use to access them changes over time. Imagine, no more manually reentering or copying information, no more digging through pieces of paper and software applications to find photos, that favorite restaurant review, a research report, scanned documents, web clipping, and much more.

Evernote automatically saves your information in a secure and reliable data center and lets you access it from any supported device so that it’s always ready to go whenever and wherever you need it. Keep it to yourself, or open any part of it for the world to see! Some of its most important benefits are:

• Fast, easy, and free sign-up
• Free Evernote applications with advanced features and local data storage on a Windows or Macintosh PC and selected mobile devices
• Automatic synchronization between your Evernote applications and the Evernote Web Service
• Accessible through any Web browser even if you choose not to install our software
• Organize your information as a series of notes in any number of notebooks
• Search the notes based on your tags, text in the notes, or text and handwriting inside photos in your notes
• Effortlessly restore your information and access it from new or replacement computers or mobile devices
• Assurance that your data is safe and secure in world class data center

Create a new notebook on Evernote Web

Evernote lets you save and search your information as notes in a notebook. To create a notebook and begin adding your notes containing text, photos, web clips, audio, etc. follow these steps:

1. Log in to Evernote at www.evernote.com using your Evernote username and password
2. In the Notebooks panel on the left, click the Actions list and select New
3. Enter a notebook name
4. Click OK

New notebooks are set as “private” by default, meaning that only the creator can view them. To “publish” a notebook and make it available for others to view and discoverable by search engines like Google, follow these steps:

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, click the Actions list and select Settings...
2. Check the Publish box
3. Enter a notebook identifer and description
4. Change the note sort order if you wish
5. Click OK

Adding content to a notebook

Evernote lets you add notes in a variety of ways. The simplest is to log in to Evernote at www.evernote.com and follow these steps:

Text notes

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, click to highlight the notebook into which you want to add a note.
2. Click the New Note button
3. Click OK
4. Enter your note title
5. Enter your note text
6. Click Done to save the note, or Cancel to exit without saving

Clipping web content

Install the Web Clipper by dragging this WebClipper button into your browser’s link bar.

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, click to highlight the notebook where you want to add a note
2. Go to the Web page you want to clip in a separate browser window or tab
3. If you want just a portion of the page, highlight it
4. Click the Evernote WebClipper icon in your browser link bar
5. A confirmation page will appear, allowing you to go to the notebook view, or return to the clipped page

There are also a few quick video tutorials for Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer on our downloads page.

Security notice: The Evernote web clipper allows you to capture content from a web page and send it to your Evernote account. Data clipped and sent to Evernote is not encrypted, even if the site of origin uses encryption. As a result, do not clip private or confidential information such as credit card numbers, bank account information, and social security numbers.

Emailing notes into your account

1. Click the Settings link at the top of the page
2. The email address that you can use to send emails and attachments into your account
3. Any email and its attachments sent to this address will be placed in a new note in your default notebook

Synchronization

All parts of Evernote are interconnected, so anything created in one place will be accessible from all others. Synchronization is automatic across the Web and Web Mobile clients. For desktop clients, it may be necessary to manually synchronize when an internet connection is available. Please refer to the user guide for the client you want to use.

Tagging notes

You can add tags to your notes so they can be more easily found when searching. Log in to Evernote at www.evernote.com using your Evernote username and password and follow these steps:

Create a tag

1. In the Tags panel on the left, click the Actions list and select New
2. Enter a tag name
3. Click OK

Apply a tag

1. In the main note view panel, click a note to apply a tag to
2. Click the Actions list and select the tag that you want to apply
3. The note is displayed with the tag added to the note list at the top of the tag

Remove a tag

1. In the main note view panel, click a note to remove a tag from
2. Click the Actions list and select the tag that you want to remove
3. The note is displayed with the tag removed from the note list at the top of the tag

Viewing and searching notes

Evernote lets you view and search your notes in a variety of ways. The simplest if you’re just getting started is to log in to Evernote at www.evernote.com using your Evernote username and password and follow these steps:

View a notebook

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, highlight the notebook that you want to view
2. In the View drop-down list above the main note panel, choose Thumbnail, List, or Single Note
3. In Thumbnail or List view, use the scrollbar to move up and down the notes
4. Click any note to open it in a larger view
5. In Single Note view, use the “Previous” and “Next” links to move among the notes in larger view

Search a notebook

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, highlight the notebook that you want to view
2. In the View drop-down list above the main note panel, choose Thumbnail, List, or Single Note
3. In any notebook view, enter a search term in the box at the top right
4. Notes that containing matching text or tags are displayed in the main note list window, and the tag(s) used to filter the view are displayed at the top

Public and private notebooks

When you create a new notebook, it is set as “private” by default so that only you can view, edit, and delete its contents. To “publish” a notebook and make it available for anyone to view, follow these steps:

1. In the Notebooks panel on the left, click the Actions list and select Settings...
2. Check the Publish box
3. Enter a notebook identifer and description
4. Change the note sort order if you wish
5. Click OK

A public notebook can be viewed by anyone who knows the direct URL, which you can share if you like. Here is a sample public notebook: www.evernote.com/pub/daven/BrewPubs-SF.

Notebook usage policies

Evernote accounts are intended for personal use to capture, organize, search, and share all types of digital content. While our Terms of Service provides all the details on acceptable use of our products and services, here are some simple guidelines. We may change our policies from time to time, so please check back here.

For private notebooks, do not upload content or use our products or services for illegal purposes or for promotion of dangerous activities. As a rule, Evernote employees do not monitor or view your personal information or content stored in the Evernote Service. However, if we become aware of a violation, your account may be terminated and you may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

In addition, for public notebooks, do not display content that:

• Contains nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by Evernote
• Contains threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
• Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party

For a complete list of restrictions, please refer to our Terms of Service.