Whether you’ve always wanted to try Evernote or have only dabbled with it in the past, you can take your professional life to the next level by making this tool one of your go-to systems for staying organized. Evernote can help you become more focused and effective on the job—and get ahead in your career. This short, practical book shows you how. In Work Smarter with Evernote, social media expert Alexandra Samuel demonstrates the most effective ways to use this popular (and free) web-based notebook system to: • Capture the right notes, documents, images, ideas, and inspirations • Keep the information you want always at your fingertips • Enhance collaboration by sharing and publishing your notes • Focus on the work that matters most to you and aligns best with your professional goals The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your Evernote system and notebooks for maximum utility and ease of navigation. Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work—and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.

Build your social media strategy. From managing email to building a social media presence, making smart use of technology is essential to professional success in a digital world. But using all these tools can quickly lead to digital overload. In this comprehensive guide from social media expert Alexandra Samuel, you’ll find out how to use the social web to achieve your professional goals—without letting it overwhelm you. Find out what social media power users do to: • Tame the email backlog and focus on the messages that matter most • Build professional relationships that advance your career using Twitter and LinkedIn • Increase your professional visibility online by using HootSuite to schedule social media updates • Keep your most important work front-and-center with a digital notetaking system • Integrate these tools to get the most out of each one, and make them even more powerful together

“One of my favorite books of the year. It completely reshaped how I think about information and how and why I take notes.” —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive A revolutionary approach to enhancing productivity, creating flow, and vastly increasing your ability to capture, remember, and benefit from the unprecedented amount of information all around us. For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough. Now, this eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.

If you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you’re missing out on the many ways you can take advantage of this social network to build the professional relationships you need to advance in your career. LinkedIn can help you initiate, strengthen, and use the very real human connections that make you effective on the job—and help you get ahead. This short, practical book shows you how. In Work Smarter with LinkedIn, social media expert Alexandra Samuel demonstrates the most effective ways to actively build and use your network, sharing tips and tricks on: • Deciding which connection invitations to accept • Searching for potential connections when you need to establish a new contact • Using business travel to make the most of face time with colleagues and contacts • Capturing all the connections you’ve made at a conference • When not to use LinkedIn The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to starting—or perfecting—your LinkedIn profile. Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work—and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.

Maximize Your Research Progress! Harness the powerful, timesaving organization features of Evernote's free software and mobile apps to manage your genealogy research. This comprehensive user guide explains how to organize all kinds of genealogy clues--from notes and e-mails to vital records and audio files--so the information is easily searchable, accessible on any device, and automatically backed up in the cloud. Step-by-step instructions show you how to file research materials, analyze research clues, collaborate with cousins, and share your family history. In this book, you'll find • Evernote tips and strategies specifically for genealogy researchers, with real-life examples • Step-by-step instructions for managing different types of genealogy information, from research notes to document images to web clippings • Tricks for using Evernote to speed up research tasks, including transcription and research logs • Suggestions to search-optimize your Evernote data so your information is easy to find • Ideas for enhancing Evernote with external apps • Tips to protect your data and troubleshoot common issues • Worksheets to help you organize your notebooks and stacks Whether you're an Evernote newbie or dedicated user, How to Use Evernote for Genealogy will change your research life by showing you how this free tool can make you a better, more efficient genealogist.

In Evernote: A Success Manual for College Students, Stan Skrabut capitalizes on his decades of experience in higher education as an educator and student to share a tool that will help you become more successful in college. This tool is Evernote. Evernote can be used in all aspects of college life to make your experience less overwhelming. Skrabut not only provides a detailed overview of the Evernote application, you will learn strategies for using Evernote both in and out of the classroom. These strategies cover the many ways to take classroom notes along with best practices, conducting research, studying for exams, and tracking extracurricular activities. In this book, you will also learn how to integrate Evernote with other applications so that you can automate your research. Throughout the book, Skrabut offers detailed, concrete examples for using Evernote from setting up preferences, creating saved searches, and developing master study notes. These time saving strategies will help you spend more time focusing on learning. It is time to put your digital brain to work.

Organize work and home life using notes from your phone or computer to supercharge your productivity with this OneNote manual Key Features Learn how to store notes that include images, audio, videos, links, files, emails, and web clippings Unleash the magic of tags to make notes stand out and become more searchable Discover the power of shared notebooks with your team or family to ensure everyone is in the loop Book Description Do you want to take your information and note organization to a new level? This book will show you how to use Microsoft's organizational app, OneNote, to store endless amounts of information in a productive and organized way, including solutions for creating your notes and then sharing them easily with your team or department. You'll be guided through everything you need to set up a notebook and customize it to suit you or your team. The book will show you how to navigate through OneNote and search for virtually anything, as well as save time with all the shortcuts. You'll discover that inserting information into your notebooks goes far beyond text, images, and videos, and also includes emails, links to documents, and clippings from the web. But it doesn't stop there. Integration with other Microsoft products is key for making your experience successful, and this book demonstrates how to use OneNote with Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Beyond instructions and essential topics, this book also provides you with the motivation you need to make OneNote a habit as well as real-life examples of notebooks you can use. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use OneNote for everything and from every device. Even if you start a notebook on your laptop and continue it on your phone, you'll find working with the app seamless. What you will learn Understand how to create and organize notes in your notebooks Discover how to turn handwritten notes into typed text Explore how to access your content from anywhere even if offline Uncover ways to collaborate with your team or family and stay in sync Understand how to insert your emails, documents, or articles from the web Find out how to integrate with other Microsoft products such as Outlook or Teams Who this book is for If you save notes on your phone, wear out more spiral notebooks than you can count, or if you're a Microsoft 365 user and need to keep track of information, then this book is for you. Beginner-level experience with OneNote is required to get the most out of this book.

You’re on Twitter but can’t keep up with the onslaught of incoming messages. You’re also not sure how to extract value from this social media phenomenon—especially as a professional tool. In Work Smarter with Twitter and HootSuite, social media expert Alexandra Samuel helps you take Twitter to the next level by using the free tool HootSuite, which allows you to focus on the people whose tweets matter to you and easily establish the relationships and presence you want. This short, practical book shows you the most effective ways to use this popular system to: • Focus on the people and relationships that are the most important to you professionally • Set up your own “relationship dashboard” to track tweets that matter • Keep your incoming Twitter stream free of clutter • Tweet the right messages at the right time—and even schedule your tweets in advance This ebook also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your complete Twitter and HootSuite system for maximum ease of use. Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work—and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.

Looking for the ultimate method to optimize your daily activities and organize your work, home, and personal routine? Want to know how to actually get things done faster and remember things on the fly? Evernote is the mother of all note taking apps. It's super easy to use and is chock-full of features that will help you: remember everything, from to-do lists to website content to classroom lectures; access reminders, notes, recipes, pictures, emails, and tidbits of information from your Smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop computer; digitally takes notes and organize them just like how you would capture, save, and file objects and information in real life. Despite Evernote's incredible repository power, only a few are aware of the app's full potential, but thanks to "Total Time Mastery with Evernote," the latest book from Dominic Wolff, the world will soon discover how valuable the software is. "Total Time Mastery with Evernote" is an ultimate guidebook that shows you the ins and outs, the side-to-sides, and the backwards and forwards of the note management app. It will teach you how to incorporate the organization software into every aspect of your daily living pattern. Other things Dominic Wolff will teach you include: How to master every single feature of Evernote How to be an Evernote expert in just two hours How to use the app to manage your work, finances, school projects, company, and household How to digitally record important information, events, pictures, and videos among others How to use Evernote's advanced tools and features How to streamline your daily tasks using Evernote to increase efficiency Whether you're a writer, cook, or soldier, you will find that Evernote should have a special place in your life. Once you discover how valuable the software is, you will be surprised at how productive you can become.

In Master Evernote, you'll discover how to make Evernote an essential part of your everyday life. Not only will you learn the basics of this tool, you'll also get a framework to develop the "Evernote Habit" for organizing your daily activities. Not only will you learn the basics, you'll also discover a wide range of advanced tools and tactics. Plus you'll get 75 ideas for getting started with Evernote.