Create Your Evernote Account

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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 Desktop

1. Nav Bar: Tap the icons here to navigate to the Notebook List or Tags List. The Nav Bar is always available in Evernote Touch for Windows 8 by swiping from the top or bottom edge of the screen.
2. App Bar: Tap the icons to sort the Note List, manually sync your Evernote account, snap a photo for a new note, or create a new blank note. The App Bar is available anytime you are viewing the Note List
3. Charm Bar: Tap the icons to search your Evernote account, view your account settings, and share notes. The Charm Bar is available anytime

Using Windows 8 Navigation

• To open the Nav Bar and App Bar, swipe from the top or bottom edge of the screen toward the center of the screen. The App Bar is only available while you are viewing the Note List.
• To open the Charm Bar, swipe from the right edge of the screen toward the center of the screen.

Creating a New Note

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

To create a new note, do the following:

1. In the Nav Bar, tap the All Notes icon. The Note List will be displayed
2. Swipe from the top or bottom edge of the screen toward to the center of the screen to open the black App Bar
3. Tap the New Note icon to create a blank note, or the New Photo icon to snap a photo for a new note
4. To enter text, tap the Edit icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor, then tap into the text area of a note. Evernote on Windows 8 currently only supports plain text.
5. Tap the Checkmark icon when you are done

Editing a Note

Editing your notes is fast and easy with Evernote Touch for Windows 8.

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

1. Tap the note you want to edit in the Note List to display its contents in the Note Editor
2. Tap the Edit icon in the upper-right corner of the Note Editor
3. Tap anywhere in the body of the note to make edits. Evernote on Windows 8 currently only supports plain text, so your new text will be appended to the bottom of any existing rich text or images in the note.
4. Tap the Checkmark icon when you are done

Create a Note from Another Application

Some of your Windows 8 applications can send data and media between each other. As you're browsing a webpage, looking at an image, or using your other favorite applications, you may use Windows 8's Share menu to instantly create a new note in Evernote using that content.

To clip a website URL from Internet Explorer:

1. Open Windows 8 Internet Explorer
2. Browse to a web page
3. Swipe open the Charm Bar and select Share
4. Select Evernote
5. Select Share to create a new note storing that URL

To save a map image and location:

1. Open Windows 8 Map
2. Browse to a location
3. Swipe open the Charm Bar and select Share
4. Select Evernote

This same Share process works in many other applications. Try it out in your favorites.

Deleting a Note

To delete a note, do the following:

1. Tap and tug on the note you want to delete. The App Bar will be displayed
2. Tap the Delete icon at the left end of the App Bar. A confirmation dialog will be displayed
3. Tap Delete. The note will be moved to your Trash Notebook

Automatic Sync

Your Evernote account is automatically synced across all of your devices whenever you make a change to your Evernote account, including creating, editing or deleting a note, creating or editing a notebook, and creating or editing a tag.

Manual Sync

You can sync your Evernote account manually at any time by doing the following:

1. Navigate to the Note List
2. Open the App Bar
3. Tap the Sync icon. Syncing manually is helpful when you want to immediately access content created on a different device, such as your computer.

All Notes

To browse all the notes in your Evernote account, open the Nav Bar and tap the All Notes icon. The Note List will be displayed.

To browse your notes, swipe horizontally to scroll through the Note List.

Notebooks

To browse all the notebooks in your Evernote account, open the Nav Bar and tap the Notebooks icon. The Notebook List will be displayed. To view all the notes in a notebook, tap it.

• Private notebooks will display the notebook name and the number of notes it contains
• Shared Notebooks will looks similar to your private notebooks, but also display the Shared Notebook icon and the Shared Notebook owner's Evernote username. If you are the owner of a Shared Notebook, only the Shared Notebook icon will be displayed
• Notebook Stacks will look similar to notebooks, but will also display the expand arrow to the left of the Notebook Stack name

Tags

To browse all the tags in your Evernote account, open the Nav Bar and tap the Tags icon. The Tags List will be displayed.

To view all the notes associated with a tag, tap it. Select a tag by touching it and tugging downwards. When one tag is selected, other tags associated with that one will become highlighted. You may also tap and tug on multiple tags to select them, then tap any of the selected tags to display only notes that are associated with all of the selected tags.

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. Open the Nav Bar, and tap the Notebooks icon. The Notebook List will be displayed
2. Tap the New Notebook icon in the lower-right corner of the screen
3. Enter a name for your new notebook and tap Create. 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. Navigate to the note you want to move, then tap to open it. The note will displayed in the Note Editor
2. Tap the name of the current notebook at the top of the left sidebar. A list of all the notebooks in your Evernote account will be displayed

3. Tap the notebook you want to move the note to. Evernote will automatically save and sync the change

Deleting a Notebook
Please note that when a notebook is deleted, all the notes it contains will be moved to the Trash Notebook.

To delete a notebook, do the following:

1. Open the Nav Bar, and tap the Notebooks icon. The Notebook List will be displayed
2. Tap and tug on the notebook you want to delete to select it. The Edit icon will appear in the lower-left corner of the screen
3. Tap the Edit icon
4. Tap Delete. A confirmation dialog will be displayed
5. Tap Delete. The notebook will be deleted and any notes in it will be moved to the Trash Notebook

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, open the Nav Bar and tap the Tags icon to open the Tags List

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

1. Navigate to the note you want to tag, then tap to open it, or create a new note
2. Tap the current list of associated tags at the bottom of the left sidebar. If no tags are currently associated with the note, tap where it says Tap to Add Tags. A list of all the tags in your Evernote account will be displayed

3. Tap the tag(s) you want to add to the note. Evernote will automatically save and sync the change. You may also enter the name of a new tag and it will be created

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

1. Open the Nav Bar, and tap the Tags icon. The Tags List will be displayed
2. Tap the Create Tag icon. The Create Tag dialog will be displayed

3. Tap the Save button. The new tag will be displayed in the Tag List.

To search your Evernote account, do the following:

1. Swipe from the right edge of the screen toward the center of the screen to open the Windows 8 Charm Bar
2. Tap Search at the top of the Charm Bar
3. Tap the search field and enter keywords, tags, locations and more. You can search for just about any information contained in your notes
4. Tap the Search icon. Your search results will be displayed in the Note List

PDF Search (Evernote Premium Feature)

Evernote Premium and Evernote Business subscribers may also search for typed and handwritten text inside attached scanned PDFs.

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

Share Notes

To share a note, do the following:

1. Create a new note or select an existing one from the Note List
2. Swipe from the right edge of the screen toward the center of the screen to open the Windows 8 Charm Bar
3. Tap Share. The Windows 8 Share Menu will be displayed
4. You will see a list of all Windows 8 applications you have installed that allow Evernote to send notes. Select Mail to email the note to a recipient, or choose any other target application.

Shared Notebooks

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

With Evernote Touch for Windows 8 you can view your Shared Notebooks, as well as your Joined Notebooks that other Evernote users have shared with you. These notebooks will display the Shared Notebook icon in the Notebook List. Joined Notebooks will also display the Evernote username of the Shared Notebook's owner.

At this time, Evernote Touch for Windows 8 does not support creating or managing Shared Notebooks. To learn how to share and manage Shared Notebooks with Evernote for other platforms, check out our other User Guides at our Evernote product page.

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

Over 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 from the Evernote Touch for Windows 8 app, swipe from the right edge of the screen toward the center of the screen to open the Charm Bar, tap Settings, then tap the Upgrade to Evernote Premium link.

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