VIII. Evernote Clipping and Searching

We’ve already presented a few details above about Evernote clipping and searching features, but if you are interested to know more about these features, we got more points to add or add some specific details for clarification.

First, be reminded that you have the Skitch feature which allows you to make changes with image shapes, draw arrows to point to important details in the text or in the image, or change the part of the text with a bigger font, or to give feedback to a coworker. After doing the changes, you can then use the Webclipper to add the new item to be entered into the collection.

With the Evernote clipper, you are particularly allowed to do the following things with your notes:

•  For articles, the feature allows clipping the entire content of a page, including styles, links and images.

•  For selecting important parts, it allows clipping of text and images that you want to highlight.

•  For bookmarks, the Evernote clipper allows one to make a note that contains a snippet of a page and the page’s URL.

•  For simplification of webpages, articles or previous notes, the Evernote Webclipper’s “Clearly” feature has the ability to strip a page of the things you want to remove for clean clipping and easy reading.

•  Evernote prevents users from clipping in notes without thinking about future actions on them. For that, the “Reminder” should be activated every time you clip a note. Just click the alarm clock icon that will appear on the screen each time a clip is added. You will know the ultimate benefit of having the “Reminder” function for clippings until you realize that some of those clips are related to some important seminars or an upcoming project.

Let’s turn to the searching capacity of Evernote. For those who don’t know completely how they can maximize the use of this feature, you may encounter big problems looking for notes, especially if you are hoarding tons of notes. You may find tags and notebooks helpful in separating notes, you can still find browsing for past notes challenging.

For one, you can make use of search properties as a part of your techniques to become a search master. The search operators for Evernote include intitle:, notebook:, any:/all:, tag:, -tag:, created: [datetime], updated: [datetime], latitude:,longitude:andaltitude:, source:, recoType:, todo:, encryption: and resource:.

To give an idea how these operators, let us take for example the –tag: search operator. The –tag: operator allows a searcher to search for notes not tagged with the given tag. This means that for the specific search operator “-tag:medicine”, Evernote will search for notes that do contain the tags do not contain the word medicine.

On the other hand, the intitle: search operator can be used to search for notes that have a given word in their titles. For example, if you use the search operator “intitle:medicine”, Evernote will search for titles that have the word medicine in them.

You can also perform complex searches wherein you combine search operators. For example, if you want to search for food recipes notes that contain the tag “pasta” but don’t have the tag “chicken”, you just enter in the search box “–tag:chicken tag: pasta”. In another example, the particular complex search operator “tag:meeting company Y intitle:September” can be used for a search relating to company Y with the tag for “meeting” and a “intitle” specification of September in the title.

There are several techniques and operations available for Evernote and users are usually sharing them over the internet. The point is everyone is sharing what they have discovered and as much as they are sharing what they have discovered, they are also waiting for others to do their part.

As soon as you become familiar with the basic search operations and some advance search operations, continue to discover more advanced operations and have a heart to give others what you have personally learned.