I love the simple statement that you made comparing the digital daily note to just writing it out on a piece of paper. It's so simple. I like paper better but have been incorporating all my work/schedule/tasks etc. digitally, as it can be way more accessible and efficient with practice, and I need not just practice but also direction & ideas. Thank you for putting out these great videos on Evernote, as it is much appreciated.
@@patricia__alves_ think of it as replacing your yellow notepad. I created a template for my daily note taking for how I’d like to manage my day. As I think about my “action items “ and “to do” I write them in my next day notes so when I get to work and open Evernote I go strait to my day 28 September 2022 and my “ to do” are already in place but yes throughout the day I have a section for my notes I jot down create new tasks and at the end of the week I can quickly scan my daily notes for that week in that month’s notebook and see my open tasks and quickly check them off or easily move them to the next week. I’ve been doing this for half the year now and I absolutely love this setup. B/c I work off my iPad or desktop but I can also access my notebook on my phone and update my daily notes on the fly and it all syncs. Give it a try
I'm always looking for ways to better use my Evernote account. And I appreciate when you do videos like this. Yes, I may not do it exactly like you do, but you do give me ideas to build off from. Keep up the good work.
Hello. Just figuring out how to reorganize how I use Evernote and stumbled on your videos. Just also started using Todoist. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in easy to follow format. :)
Great idea. What’s going through my mind is the potential risk I’d enter a task in Evernote but fail to copy it across to Todoist and that what I rely on each day to tell me what to do. I try to ensure I use as few ‘buckets’ as possible for tasks, ideas and notes else they’ll fall between the cracks.
I know this won't work for everyone and there is that additional step at the end of the day to go through your notes to ensure you have collected everything. If you feel you cannot do that, then I don't think this would work.
Very interesting video! I really like the idea of having one place to "log" everything that happens in a day or thoughts that I get or that get thrown at me during the day. I currently use a digital planner on my iPad for "daily" stuff, but keep a running list of to-do's and all my information in EN. The kinesthetics of writing down my main goals for each day on my iPad is really useful for me. But I really am intrigued by this idea of a daily note to log other things. I'm going to let this ruminate and see if or how I could put it to use in my workflow. Thanks so much for posting such great content, Carl! I appreciate your channel!
This is brilliant and I hope over the next week to begin to set up a similar system for myself! The Daily Note idea is something I might be looking for! Thank you for this.
Great vid Carl. I do something similar with my work notes except I just have a single notebook ("Daily Standups") and I create my notes from a pre-defined template. I do the same with personal journaling - I've just moved from Penzu into EN.
Thanks Carl, I find that very useful! I've been playing around with Craft and Obsidian and there is Daily Notes directly a feature. In Craft, it's even a feature directly linked to the calendar, which I find very handy. In Evernote you can link notes to calendar events but you can't link a note to a day in the calendar... that would be a feature like in Craft or Obsidian. But maybe that will come sometime ;)
Hi Carl Great video, sounds great to me, even I do it in Onenote (my company use office 365 tools), with a dedicated notebook with a section for every month, and a page for every day. As I prefer (for the moment) handwriting, I write all the stuff on my Remarkable 2 tablet and at the end of the day I export Remarkable notes pages to Onenote daily page, on PNG format, as it's lighter than a PDF, and if needed I could annotate it
I take a different route for my daily ideas. Whenever I think of something that I want to remember, I use Siri to start a shortcut on the Apple Watch that I call "remember". this shortcut creates an entry in DayOne every day and adds every new entry during the day. This diary is called the journal. The next day, a new entry will be created with the current date. So I immediately saved all my thoughts in the daily diary. If these thoughts are more than just tasks or memories, I can move them to the correct diary right away. SNIP: Ouch, the Google Translate has a real sense of humor
Hi Carl, I really appreciate your videos, the way they are structured, the themes, etc. One question: after many upgrades/facelifts for Evernote, are you still using it 100% for your notes, projects, etc or you changed for Apple Notes? Still I have questions which app would be useful for my personal/work/projects management.I would appreciate your inputs. Thanks.
I'm still using Evernote, but recently it has become quite slow on my Mac. I'm therefore using Apple Notes a lot more. I explain this in my Video which will come out on Thursday.
Thank you Carl. Great Idea. It is so much it can be done to record everyday stuff we come across. Question for You, Is it anyway we make the 12 month notes with template with the name of the day from 01 to 30 which would need to be done with CODE BLOCKS?. Example Jan 01, Jan 02 and so on....Thank you again.
Hi Carl. I am wondering if you think that Evernote is still worth using now that they have been bought by Bending Spoons? I have been loving your Working with Apple series, but still feel drawn to Evernote. I just wonder what you think?
Oh absolutely! Evernote is the backbone of all my project notes and client interactions. Evernote's going nowhere and as long as it remains solid and dependable, I'm staying with it.
I do something similar but I have a 15 minute calendar event titled daily note that happens every morning. What I do is I create my daily note from that calendar event using the calendar and note linking features in the new version.
I do something very similar - the difference would be I have it as an "all day event" - I have found this to be very effective. For the first month (July) I merged all the individual July notes into one note...the issue is that the links in the calendar break cause those notes don't exist anymore. So for August moving forward, I will leave them standalone for easy of future reference. Glad to see someone else doing this - would be great to hear any other strategies you use.
What about if you take handwritten notes? I've changed my method of logging daily stuff onto handwriting on a digital paper tablet (I personally use remarkable 2) if it isnt something that's like a task and whatever that I prefer to have it on calendar, todoist, Evernote, etc. Are you familiar with those personally Carl? If you are, or have tried em for different purposes, could you make a video about that?
I scan my paper notes into my digital notes if they have anything important on them. AS for Remarkable, I did test a few last year and didn't enjoy the experience. But I'm a fountain pen lover and so more a problem with me than e-ink tablets.
Just curious, Carl: For quick capture of tasks, do you tend to put them in a daily note like this or in Todoist? Or does it depend on the task/context? I've only been using Todoist for a few months, but the killer feature for me is quick task capture. I could see even just the little bit of extra friction in capturing a task in Evernote disrupting my flow in some cases. At least for me, the differentiating factor might be capturing whatever discrete task just popped into my head before I forget it (Todoist) vs. being able to take a few minutes to better summarize/think through an idea and necessary next steps (Evernote).
It depends where I am working. If I am out and about, I tend to use Drafts (on my phone) but if I am working from home, I use the daily note for capturing meeting notes and other random stuff. If I know something is a task, though, it will go straight into Todoist.
Just because I always think this when I see your videos, I'll leave it here: you might want to put your "like if you like" at the end of the video too because I can't know if I like it before watching and after watching I might have forgotten ;-)
I have a question: What would you recommend as "notebooks everyone should have" (work/ private/?/? etc) and what should be the "mandatory" sections (layout). Understandably, this depends on one's situation. But if you consider that eg a "standard" GTD setup of a Kanban board works for almost everything, do you think there is such a thing in notebooks?
I've been looking into this for the last few months and there really is no "standard" setup. With notes it's a personal choice and what you decide you want to keep in there.
Crazy this was exactly what I was looking for I had created a note book called notepad for this very reason But I never did anything with it because I didn’t know how to organize it
Thank you. I'm sorry Carl, but I just have one question. You keep your journal on Day One. Why do you use Evernote for Thoughts of the Day? It looks like a duplication of a function.
@@Carl_Pullein Hi Carl! Thank you for your time! What do you think, if you try this technique, which application is more convenient? If you know that I use Evernote. But I also start my day with Day One.
@@zavistovich This method in Evernote allows you to see the chain. DayOne doesn't show that. So, if you want to track progress, Evernote would be a better place.
Tim/Tim Cook/Apple Inc... easy search. : ))))) And with tasks in EN now can be smoother. ... and those that evolve and develop could become their own note (or maybe even notebook) with a link to that, from the original capture of the idea. Also - remember that checklist =/= inline check box, and so can be used for different purposes. Pre v10 EN used to be able to find unchecked boxes, not sure on v10, haven't checked yet., but can/could also help find un-used ideas, etc. This and journal could easily be merged - unless you really Journal as more like 'Morning Pages' than a listing of ideas and what is done.
Interesting idea, though not for me, as I use Simplenote or Logseq (depending on the machine I'm on) for my fleeting notes. I can, however, see the potential of having a weekly note, for me to add my [potentially] actionable ideas to... which could then be my pinned note, for the week!
I'm still using Evernote 8.13 on my Android... Because the tags are not working properly in the latest one. Pressing the tag returns Zero result))) . But I keep using it just because this is the extension of my 🧠
I love the simple statement that you made comparing the digital daily note to just writing it out on a piece of paper. It's so simple. I like paper better but have been incorporating all my work/schedule/tasks etc. digitally, as it can be way more accessible and efficient with practice, and I need not just practice but also direction & ideas. Thank you for putting out these great videos on Evernote, as it is much appreciated.
Thank you, Jan and you’re very welcome.
I’ve been using this method for a week now and my anxiety has gone down significantly. 👍
That's fantastic. Great to hear it working for you.
Do you brain dump all through the day or just at the end?
@@patricia__alves_ think of it as replacing your yellow notepad. I created a template for my daily note taking for how I’d like to manage my day. As I think about my “action items “ and “to do” I write them in my next day notes so when I get to work and open Evernote I go strait to my day
28 September 2022 and my “ to do” are already in place but yes throughout the day I have a section for my notes I jot down create new tasks and at the end of the week I can quickly scan my daily notes for that week in that month’s notebook and see my open tasks and quickly check them off or easily move them to the next week. I’ve been doing this for half the year now and I absolutely love this setup. B/c I work off my iPad or desktop but I can also access my notebook on my phone and update my daily notes on the fly and it all syncs. Give it a try
I have been a longtime Evernote user. I like the way you have setup and are doing daily notes. Given me some good ideas. Cheers.
You're welcome, Michael. Glad I've been able to help.
I'm always looking for ways to better use my Evernote account. And I appreciate when you do videos like this. Yes, I may not do it exactly like you do, but you do give me ideas to build off from. Keep up the good work.
Glad you found it useful, Michael.
Same here 🫰🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Hello. Just figuring out how to reorganize how I use Evernote and stumbled on your videos. Just also started using Todoist. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in easy to follow format. :)
You're welcome.
Not sure how I missed this when you first put it up, but this is a BRILLANT idea Carl!
You're very welcome, Kevin.
Great idea. What’s going through my mind is the potential risk I’d enter a task in Evernote but fail to copy it across to Todoist and that what I rely on each day to tell me what to do. I try to ensure I use as few ‘buckets’ as possible for tasks, ideas and notes else they’ll fall between the cracks.
I know this won't work for everyone and there is that additional step at the end of the day to go through your notes to ensure you have collected everything. If you feel you cannot do that, then I don't think this would work.
Very interesting video! I really like the idea of having one place to "log" everything that happens in a day or thoughts that I get or that get thrown at me during the day. I currently use a digital planner on my iPad for "daily" stuff, but keep a running list of to-do's and all my information in EN. The kinesthetics of writing down my main goals for each day on my iPad is really useful for me. But I really am intrigued by this idea of a daily note to log other things. I'm going to let this ruminate and see if or how I could put it to use in my workflow. Thanks so much for posting such great content, Carl! I appreciate your channel!
You're welcome, Coleen. Glad you found it thought provoking.
This is brilliant and I hope over the next week to begin to set up a similar system for myself! The Daily Note idea is something I might be looking for! Thank you for this.
You're very welcome.
Thank you again for this organizing advice. Never thought we could have a Daily Note which could also serve as a Journal. Thanks Carl!
Always happy to help.
@@Carl_Pullein can't wait for your next video
Nicely done. Great idea to keep track of ideas as they happen throughout the day. Thanks.
You're very welcome, Ethan.
Great vid Carl. I do something similar with my work notes except I just have a single notebook ("Daily Standups") and I create my notes from a pre-defined template. I do the same with personal journaling - I've just moved from Penzu into EN.
Fantastic, Steve. Didn't think of adding a pre-defined template.
Carl, I love your videos you are a reference. hug from here in Brazil
Thank you, Thiago. Hugs from the other side of the world in Korea.
Thanks Carl! This is very helpful. Is there a way in a note to search for all the checked boxes?
Not at the moment. But Evernote are hard at work adding a lot of features so maybe in the future.
Thanks Carl, I find that very useful! I've been playing around with Craft and Obsidian and there is Daily Notes directly a feature. In Craft, it's even a feature directly linked to the calendar, which I find very handy. In Evernote you can link notes to calendar events but you can't link a note to a day in the calendar... that would be a feature like in Craft or Obsidian. But maybe that will come sometime ;)
Thank you for sharing, Frank.
Carl, do you use daily notes yourself or is this more of a suggestion on how to do it in Evernote?
@@devarni It was a suggestion for those who’s days are constantly interrupted. It’s a great way to to quickly add new items.
Carl. where do you keep your ideas that come up during the day? Everything in Todoist or just a note in Evernote or somewhere else?
@@devarni Ideas will go directly into Evernote for development (or not) later.
Hi Carl
Great video, sounds great to me, even I do it in Onenote (my company use office 365 tools), with a dedicated notebook with a section for every month, and a page for every day.
As I prefer (for the moment) handwriting, I write all the stuff on my Remarkable 2 tablet and at the end of the day I export Remarkable notes pages to Onenote daily page, on PNG format, as it's lighter than a PDF, and if needed I could annotate it
Thanks for sharing, Tony. That's another great way of doig it.
I take a different route for my daily ideas. Whenever I think of something that I want to remember, I use Siri to start a shortcut on the Apple Watch that I call "remember". this shortcut creates an entry in DayOne every day and adds every new entry during the day. This diary is called the journal. The next day, a new entry will be created with the current date. So I immediately saved all my thoughts in the daily diary. If these thoughts are more than just tasks or memories, I can move them to the correct diary right away.
SNIP: Ouch, the Google Translate has a real sense of humor
That's another way to do it, Christoph.
Hi Carl, I really appreciate your videos, the way they are structured, the themes, etc. One question: after many upgrades/facelifts for Evernote, are you still using it 100% for your notes, projects, etc or you changed for Apple Notes? Still I have questions which app would be useful for my personal/work/projects management.I would appreciate your inputs. Thanks.
I'm still using Evernote, but recently it has become quite slow on my Mac. I'm therefore using Apple Notes a lot more. I explain this in my Video which will come out on Thursday.
Brilliant! Thanks Carl.
Thank you, Richard. Glad you liked it.
That's a great idea Carl!
Glad you like it, Lisa.
Thank you Carl. Great Idea. It is so much it can be done to record everyday stuff we come across. Question for You, Is it anyway we make the 12 month notes with template with the name of the day from 01 to 30 which would need to be done with CODE BLOCKS?. Example Jan 01, Jan 02 and so on....Thank you again.
Ooh, sadly I don't know enough about the code blocks, but I am sure there must be.
Hi Carl. I am wondering if you think that Evernote is still worth using now that they have been bought by Bending Spoons? I have been loving your Working with Apple series, but still feel drawn to Evernote. I just wonder what you think?
Oh absolutely! Evernote is the backbone of all my project notes and client interactions. Evernote's going nowhere and as long as it remains solid and dependable, I'm staying with it.
I do something similar but I have a 15 minute calendar event titled daily note that happens every morning. What I do is I create my daily note from that calendar event using the calendar and note linking features in the new version.
I do something very similar - the difference would be I have it as an "all day event" - I have found this to be very effective. For the first month (July) I merged all the individual July notes into one note...the issue is that the links in the calendar break cause those notes don't exist anymore. So for August moving forward, I will leave them standalone for easy of future reference. Glad to see someone else doing this - would be great to hear any other strategies you use.
That's a good use of the new calendar feature, Brian.
What about if you take handwritten notes? I've changed my method of logging daily stuff onto handwriting on a digital paper tablet (I personally use remarkable 2) if it isnt something that's like a task and whatever that I prefer to have it on calendar, todoist, Evernote, etc. Are you familiar with those personally Carl? If you are, or have tried em for different purposes, could you make a video about that?
I scan my paper notes into my digital notes if they have anything important on them.
AS for Remarkable, I did test a few last year and didn't enjoy the experience. But I'm a fountain pen lover and so more a problem with me than e-ink tablets.
Just curious, Carl: For quick capture of tasks, do you tend to put them in a daily note like this or in Todoist? Or does it depend on the task/context? I've only been using Todoist for a few months, but the killer feature for me is quick task capture. I could see even just the little bit of extra friction in capturing a task in Evernote disrupting my flow in some cases.
At least for me, the differentiating factor might be capturing whatever discrete task just popped into my head before I forget it (Todoist) vs. being able to take a few minutes to better summarize/think through an idea and necessary next steps (Evernote).
It depends where I am working. If I am out and about, I tend to use Drafts (on my phone) but if I am working from home, I use the daily note for capturing meeting notes and other random stuff. If I know something is a task, though, it will go straight into Todoist.
Also, when you say DN(date)/#, how do you prefer to have your date to be formatted? I use slash in the format like mm/dd/yy so it might get confusing.
I use YYYY-MM-DD as my date format.
Just because I always think this when I see your videos, I'll leave it here: you might want to put your "like if you like" at the end of the video too because I can't know if I like it before watching and after watching I might have forgotten ;-)
Hahaha, thanks for the heads up, Jonas.
I have a question: What would you recommend as "notebooks everyone should have" (work/ private/?/? etc) and what should be the "mandatory" sections (layout). Understandably, this depends on one's situation. But if you consider that eg a "standard" GTD setup of a Kanban board works for almost everything, do you think there is such a thing in notebooks?
I've been looking into this for the last few months and there really is no "standard" setup. With notes it's a personal choice and what you decide you want to keep in there.
Crazy this was exactly what I was looking for I had created a note book called notepad for this very reason But I never did anything with it because I didn’t know how to organize it
Glad to have helped.
@@Carl_Pullein I Appreciate the organization tips in Evernote. I’ve watched 20+ of your videos - They’ve helped immensely
@@StealthAZ That's fantastic! Thank you for watching.
@@Carl_Pullein 6 months and still going strong !
@@StealthAZ That's good going :-)
Thank you. I'm sorry Carl, but I just have one question. You keep your journal on Day One. Why do you use Evernote for Thoughts of the Day? It looks like a duplication of a function.
Hi Serge, I don't use this myself. I don't need it. But I did this video for those people who reached out to me about how to handle this issue.
@@Carl_Pullein Hi Carl! Thank you for your time! What do you think, if you try this technique, which application is more convenient? If you know that I use Evernote. But I also start my day with Day One.
@@zavistovich This method in Evernote allows you to see the chain. DayOne doesn't show that. So, if you want to track progress, Evernote would be a better place.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you so much, Carl
Tim/Tim Cook/Apple Inc... easy search. : )))))
And with tasks in EN now can be smoother.
... and those that evolve and develop could become their own note (or maybe even notebook) with a link to that, from the original capture of the idea.
Also - remember that checklist =/= inline check box, and so can be used for different purposes. Pre v10 EN used to be able to find unchecked boxes, not sure on v10, haven't checked yet., but can/could also help find un-used ideas, etc.
This and journal could easily be merged - unless you really Journal as more like 'Morning Pages' than a listing of ideas and what is done.
Thanks for sharing that, Tim.
Interesting idea, though not for me, as I use Simplenote or Logseq (depending on the machine I'm on) for my fleeting notes. I can, however, see the potential of having a weekly note, for me to add my [potentially] actionable ideas to... which could then be my pinned note, for the week!
Good idea, Toran.
@@Carl_Pullein ta... I do have them, occasionally, lol. ;-)
This is something I do in Obsidian. And a much better place to collect ideas and thoughts IMO. Let them build organically…
I'm still using Evernote 8.13 on my Android... Because the tags are not working properly in the latest one. Pressing the tag returns Zero result))) . But I keep using it just because this is the extension of my 🧠
Hopefully, Evernote will get that fixed very quickly. There seems to be a lot of heat on the Android app.
Can you no longer save your own templates in evernote free? I cant seem to find the save as template anymore.
Ooh, I don't know. But as far as I remember, you've never been able to do that with the free version.