Create Your Evernote Account

Evernote offers two account types: Free accounts and Evernote Premium accounts.

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Free Account
Anyone can create an Evernote account for free. Free accounts include the core Evernote features covered in this Getting Started Guide and more.

Evernote Premium
Evernote Premium offers many great additional features that let you get more out of Evernote, and is available for a monthly or yearly subscription. To learn more about everything that Evernote Premium has to offer, check out our Evernote Premium page.

Get Evernote for All Your Devices

Evernote is available for just about every device and platform, including smartphones, computers and on the Web, making it easy to remember everything and access it anytime, anywhere.

To download Evernote, visit the Evernote product page.

Evernote is available for all of the following:

Mobile

• iPhone
• iPad
• iPod Touch
• Windows Phone
• Windows 8
• Android
• BlackBerry
• WebOS

Desktop

• Mac OS X
• Windows

Android Evernote Home Screen on phone (left) and on tablet (right).

1. Quick Notes: Create a new note with text, audio, a photo snapshot, or a file attachment with a tap Learn more about Quick Notes
2. Views: Easily browse the memories in your Evernote account with Views:
   • Notes: Displays all of the notes in your Evernote account, with the most recently updated notes shown first. Learn more about notes
   • Notebooks: Displays all of the notebooks and Notebook Stacks in your Evernote account. Tap any notebook to view the notes it contains. Learn more about notebooks
   • Tags: View a sortable list of all the tags currently used in your Evernote account. Tap any tag to view all of the notes associated with it. Learn more about tags
   • Places: Navigate and view your notes by location on a fully interactive map. Learn more about Places
   • Skitch Notes: View all of your notes that were created using Skitch. Tapping a note from this View will open it in Skitch. Learn more about Skitch
3. Sync: Click to to manually sync your Evernote account. Evernote automatically syncs regularly, so using this button is optional. Sync ensures that everything in your Evernote account is available anytime and anywhere that you have access to Evernote, including on your phone, tablet, computer and on the Web.
4. Search: Search your notes for keywords, locations, tags and more. Evernote searches the titles and contents of your notes, as well as text inside images attached to notes.
5. Account Info: Manage your account settings, view your Evernote email address, and more

Creating a New Note

Once created, your note will automatically be saved to Evernote and synced across all your devices.

From the Home Screen

The Quick Note buttons on the Home Screen make creating a new note fast and easy. The following options are available in the toolbar:

1. New Note: Tap to open the Note Editor
2. Snapshot: Tap to begin by capturing a photo using your device's normal or front-facing camera.
3. Audio: Tap to begin by capturing an audio recording. Once you have captured your audio clip, you will be taken to the Note Editor. Your audio clip will be attached to the note
4. Attach: Tap to begin creating a note by selecting a file to attach to a new note. Once you have selected an attachment, you will be taken to the Note Editor

From the Notes View

From the Notes View, you can create a new note by tapping the Create Note button, located in the lower-left corner of the screen.

Editing a Note

To edit the contents of a note, do the following:

1. Tap the note you want to edit to display its contents
2. Tap the Pencil icon at the bottom on the screen. The Note Editor will be displayed
3. Edit your note
4. Tap the Checkmark icon in the upper-left corner of the Note Editor to save your changes

Adding Photos

With the multi-shot camera, you can capture one or more photos, then easily review them and choose the ones you want to attach to your note.

You can also use the Page Camera feature to save physical paper notes to your Evernote account, or capture pages from your Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine. For more information on using Page Camera, visit our Evernote Smart Notebook user guide.

To add photos to a note, do the following:

1. Tap the note you want to edit to display its contents.
2. Tap the Pencil icon at the bottom on the screen. The Note Editor will be displayed.
3. Tap the Camera icon at the top-right of the screen. Your device's rear-facing camera will be activated.
4. Snap one or more photos as you normally would.
5. Tap the Photo Counter at the bottom right of the screen to open the photo gallery.
6. Swipe across the thumbnail images to browse the photos.
7. Tap any thumbnail image to view the full-sized photo.
8. To delete a photo, tap the Trash icon when viewing the full-sized photo.
9. Tap the Checkmark to accept the remaining photos and attach them to your note, or tap the X to discard all photos and return to the Note Editor.

Adding Attachments

Just about anything can be attached to a note, including files, images and audio.

To add an attachment, do the following:

1. Tap the note you want to edit to display its contents.
2. Tap the Pencil icon at the bottom on the screen. The Note Editor will be displayed.
3. Tap the + icon at the top-right of the screen.
4. Tap the type of attachment you want to attach to the note.

Deleting a Note

To delete a note, do the following

1. Tap and hold on the note you want to delete. An options menu will be displayed
2. Tap Delete. A confirmation dialog will be displayed
3. Tap Ok. The note will be moved to your Trash Notebook

Changing Note Details

To edit information about a note, Tap the Options button, located in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor. You can change a note's location details, notebook, and tags.

Automatic Sync

By default, your Evernote account is automatically synced across all of your devices once per hour whenever Evernote is running.

Changing Sync Frequency
To change how often your account automatically syncs, do the following:

1. Tap the Evernote icon to open the Home Screen
2. Tap the Profile icon
3. Tap Settings
4. Under App Settings, tap Sync Notes
5. Tap Sync Automatically
6. Select how often you want to automatically sync your Evernote account. You may also disable automatic syncing

Enable WiFi Only Syncing
Users with limited data usage for their mobile device may want to sync only when their device is connected to a WiFi network. To enable syncing over WiFi only, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap the Profile icon
2. Tap Settings
3. Under App Settings, tap Sync Notes
4. Tap Wi-Fi sync only

Manual Sync

You can sync your Evernote account at any time by tapping the Sync button on the Home Screen.

Syncing manually is helpful when you want to immediately access content created on a different device, such as your desktop computer.

Notes View

To browse all the notes in your Evernote account, Tap the Notes View on the Home Screen. The Note List will be displayed.

This list only displays the notes that belong to you, and does not include notes for Joined Notebooks that others have shared with you.

Notebooks View

Tap the Notebooks View on the Home Screen to see the Notebook List. All of the notebook that you own will be displayed beneath the MY NOTEBOOKS header, while all of the Joined Notebooks that others have shared with you will be displayed under the JOINED NOTEBOOKs header.To view all the notes in a notebook, tap it.

Each notebook in the Notebook List will display the number of notes it contains. Notebooks owned by you will also display the sharing status of the notebook (Private, Shared, or Public), while all Joined Notebooks will display the Evernote username of the notebook's owner. Notebook Stacks will display the number of notebooks contained in the Notebook Stack.

Tags View

To view all of the tags in your Evernote account, tap the Tags View on the Home Screen. The Tag List will be displayed

Tap any tag to view the notes associated with it in the Note List.

Places View

Places lets you browse your notes based on where they were created. To open Places, tap the Places View on the Home Screen.

List View
By default, Places will open the List View, which separates your notes by country and city.

To view your notes, tap any location in the list. All of the notes that were created in that location will be displayed in the Note List.

Map View
To view your notes in the Map View, tap the Map icon at the bottom of the Places List View. Your notes will be represented on the map as blue icons that display the number of notes associated with that location.

To view your notes, tap any of the numbered locations, or pinch and expand to zoom in and out on the map as you normally would to narrow your search.

Skitch Notes View

Skitch is a great tool that lets you easily annotate and share images, then save them forever in your Evernote account. With Evernote, you can easily browse all of your Skitch Notes, then open them in Skitch to continue annotating them. Learn more about Skitch.

To view your Skitch Notes, tap the Skitch Notes View on the Home Screen. The Note List will be displayed.

Tap any tag to view the notes associated with it in the Note List.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts are the fast way to access your most frequently used content in your Evernote account. You may create a shortcut to any note, notebook, Notebook Stack or tag, then access it from the Shortcuts menu with a single tap.

To learn how to create and access shortcuts, see the 'Shortcuts' section in the Organize Notes section of this user guide.

Notebooks

Notebooks are the most common way of organizing notes in Evernote, and are commonly used to separate notes by category, location or purpose. For example, you might create one notebook called Work Notes and one called Personal Notes to keep these types of notes separate and easier to find.

All Evernote accounts have one default notebook that is automatically created when the account is created.

Shared Notebooks can also be used to selectively allow others to see and edit the contents of your notebooks.

Creating a New Notebook
To create a new notebook, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap the Notebooks View. The Notebook List will be displayed
2. Tap the + New Notebook button. The New Notebook dialog will be displayed
3. Enter a name for your new notebook and tap Ok. You can add notes to your new notebook immediately

Adding Notes to a Notebook
By default, all new notes will be saved to your Evernote account's default notebook. To learn more about creating notes in a specific notebook, go to Create & Edit a Note.

To add notes to a notebook, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap the Notes View. The Note List will be displayed
2. Tap the note you want to move. The note will be displayed in the Note Editor
3. Tap the Options icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor. An options menu will be displayed
4. Tap Move to notebook. A list of all the notebooks in your Evernote account will be displayed
5. Tap the notebook that you want to move the note to
6. Tap Ok. Evernote will automatically save and sync the change

Shortcuts

Shortcuts are the fast way to access your most frequently used content in your Evernote account. You may create a shortcut to any note, notebook, Notebook Stack or tag, then access it from the Shortcuts menu with a single tap.

The Shortcuts Menu

The Shortcuts menu can be accessed from anywhere in Evernote for Android, except the Home Screen. To open the Shortcuts menu, simply swipe from the right edge of the screen toward the center of the screen and the Shortcuts menu will slide out. All of your shortcuts will be displayed in the order they were created. To open any shortcut, tap it.

The type of each shortcut will be indicated by one of the following icons:

1. Notebook Shortcut
2. Note Shortcut
3. Tag Shortcut

Creating a Note Shortcut

To create a shortcut to any note, do the following:

1. Open the Note List. This can be done by tapping Notes on the Home Screen, tapping any notebook, tapping any tag, or performing a search.
2. Tap and hold on the note you want to create a shortcut to. An options menu will be displayed.
3. Tap Add to Shortcuts. The note will be added to the Shortcuts menu.

Creating a Notebook Shortcut

To create a shortcut to any notebook, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap Notebooks to open the Notebook List.
2. Tap and hold on the notebook you want to create a shortcut to. An options menu will be displayed.
3. Tap Add to Shortcuts. The notebook will be added to the Shortcuts menu.

Creating a Tag Shortcut

To create a shortcut to any tag, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap Tags to open the Tag List.
2. Tap and hold on the tag you want to create a shortcut to. An options menu will be displayed.
3. Tap Add to Shortcuts. The tag will be added to the Shortcuts menu.

Creating a Notebook Stack Shortcut

To create a shortcut to any Notebook Stack, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap Notebooks to open the Notebook List.
2. Tap and hold on the Notebook Stack you want to create a shortcut to. An options menu will be displayed.
3. Tap Add to Shortcuts. The Notebook Stack will be added to the Shortcuts menu, along with all the notebooks it contains.

Removing a Shortcut

To remove any shortcut from the Shortcuts menu, do the following:

1. Open the Shortcuts menu.
2. Tap and hold on the shortcut you want to remove.
3. Tap Remove from Shortcuts.

Tags

Tags are an optional way to associate keywords to notes and improve searchability. One or more tags can be added when a note is created or at a later time. Common uses for tags include associating notes with categories, memories or locations.

To view all of the tags used in your Evernote account, Tap the Tags icon On the Home Screen

Tagging a Note
To add a tag to a note, do the following:

1. Open a new or existing note
2. Tap the Options icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor
3. Tap Tags. The Tag List will be displayed
4. Tap the tag(s) you want to add
5. Tap Done

Creating a New Tag
To create a new tag, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap the Tags View
2. Open a new or existing note
3. Tap the Options icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor
4. Tap Tags. The Tag List will be displayed
5. In the Tags: field, type the name of the new tag. To add multiple tags, separate them with a comma
6. Tap Done

Document & PDF Search (Evernote Premium Feature)

Evernote Premium and Evernote Business subscribers may also search for typed and handwritten text inside the following attached file types:

• Scanned PDFs
• Documents (Microsoft Office, and iWork)
• Spreadsheets (Microsoft Office, and iWork)
• Presentations (Microsoft Office, and iWork)

Learn more about these and other great features of Evernote Premium and Evernote Business.

Shared Notes

To share a note, do the following:

1. Create a new note or open an existing note
2. Tap the Share icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor. A menu of all of the apps that can be used to share your note will be displayed, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more.
3. Tap the sharing option you want to use. For third-party apps like Facebook, you will be redirected to the app to confirm you want to share before it is posted

Public URL
One of Evernote's more popular sharing features is the ability to create a Public URL that can be accessed by anyone with a web browser. To create a Public URL, select Copy URL from the Share Menu. The Public URL will automatically be copied to your device's clipboard and can be pasted into email, text messages, and more. Please note that Public URLs are accessible by anyone who has the link.

Shared Notebooks

Shared Notebooks let you share your notebooks and the notes they contain with anyone, whether they are an Evernote user or not.

The recipient of a Shared Notebook invitation will have the option to View Notebook (only look at contents in a web browser) or Join Notebook (add the Shared Notebook to their Evernote account). Users must Join Notebook to synchronize notes with their Evernote account and, if allowed, make edits or contribute notes to the notebook.

To turn a notebook into a Shared Notebook, do the following:

1. On the Home Screen, tap the Notebooks View. The Notebook List will be displayed
2. Tap the Note Count next to the notebook you want to share. An options menu will be displayed
3. Tap Sharing Settings
4. Click one of the two sharing options:
   • Add people
     Allows you to share the notebook with specific Evernote users. Evernote Premium users can also allow others to edit their Shared Notebooks. Anyone that you invite must login to Evernote to view your Shared Notebook. If they do not have an Evernote account, they will be prompted to create one.
   • Make Public
     Creates a Public URL that can be accessed by anyone, including those who do not have Evernote. Please note that anyone with the Public Link will be able to view the entire contents of this notebook. You can disable a Public Link at anytime by returning to Sharing Settings for the Share Notebook and tapping Disable link

Evernote Web Clipper

The Evernote Web Clipper is a feature you install into your computer's internet browser to quickly save text, images, and full Web pages directly to your Evernote account. Notes created using the Web Clipper are automatically searchable and include the URL address they were clipped from. Learn more and download Evernote Web Clipper.

Evernote Trunk

Every day more than 15,000 developers worldwide are working to create and improve a wide variety of 3rd party apps, services, and products that help users get more out of Evernote. The Evernote Trunk is where users can browse these offerings, which include hardware, software, Evernote merchandise and more. To discover new apps and services that help you get more out of Evernote, take a look through the Evernote Trunk.

Evernote Premium

Evernote Premium offers increased storage, more features and improved functionality, so that you can get more out of Evernote. Some of the benefits of an Evernote Premium subscription include:

• Increased monthly upload allowance: Upload 1GB of data per month to your Evernote account
• Top priority support: Get answers to your questions even faster
• Editable Shared Notebooks: Allow others to edit the contents of your Shared Notebooks
• Searchable PDF Attachments: Search inside your scanned PDF documents
• Note History: View previous versions of notes

Monthly payment and annual payment subscriptions are available. To subscribe or learn more about the benefits and features of Evernote Premium, check out our Evernote Premium Page or tap the Account Info icon in Evernote, then tap Account Info and Upgrade to Premium.

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