Another Evernote eBook?

[Matt O'Keefe 4]

I'm interested in writing an eBook about Evernote, detailing my strategies for utilizing it, but I'm not sure if there's a market for it with other ones out there. Just wondering if you guys think a new Evernote eBook is worth pursuing.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

I'm interested in writing an eBook about Evernote, detailing my strategies for utilizing it, but I'm not sure if there's a market for it with other ones out there. Just wondering if you guys think a new Evernote eBook is worth pursuing.

 

Yes. If it is good

 

If you could tell us what you see missing from the current ones and what you want to contribute, that might help.

[Matt O'Keefe 4]

A couple I want to explore:

 

Good Housekeeping

How to keep your notebooks tidy. That includes:

• Using a special character before a title to put it first in a notebook (admittedly, not a new trick)
• Categorizing notes within notebooks with prenames. For example: "ARTICLES: [title]"
• Limiting the number of notes per notebook and being sure to get rid of unnecessary notes to reduce clutter. I think most notebooks are overstuffed with more than 20-30 notes inside it.

Content

I mostly read about clipping articles, but Evernote is a perfect place to store favorite poems, quotes, speeches, fairy tales, etc. Anything relatively short.

 

 

 

That's a little of what I'd like to cover. I would also like to write this with the input of the Evernote community (like this forum!) to learn how I can best serve them.

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Good luck with the task,  and I'm sure any ideas on which you need some discussion can be raised here.  Of course you might find it difficult to reconcile the occasionally wildly conflicting views of forum colleagues into just one view - there are those forinstance who advocate intensive tagging,  and those who prefer to rely entirely on titles and searches..

 

One point - if you restrict notebooks to 30 notes,  you'll run out of space pretty quickly - there's a max of 250 notebooks,  so 7,500 notes and you're done.  There are currently users out there with 60,000 - 100,000 notes.  I have around 17,000,  mainly in one notebook,  although I maintain about 45 notebooks for general messing around and specialised uses like sharing.

[jbenson2 2,147]

From my perspective, software related e-books (just like printed books) get out of date so very quickly. E-Books can be updated more quickly, but even the software companies have difficulty staying current with their documentation.

 

For that reason, I prefer to get my information, tips, and answers from forums such as this site.

[Matt O'Keefe 4]

Good luck with the task,  and I'm sure any ideas on which you need some discussion can be raised here.  Of course you might find it difficult to reconcile the occasionally wildly conflicting views of forum colleagues into just one view - there are those forinstance who advocate intensive tagging,  and those who prefer to rely entirely on titles and searches..

 

One point - if you restrict notebooks to 30 notes,  you'll run out of space pretty quickly - there's a max of 250 notebooks,  so 7,500 notes and you're done.  There are currently users out there with 60,000 - 100,000 notes.  I have around 17,000,  mainly in one notebook,  although I maintain about 45 notebooks for general messing around and specialised uses like sharing.

 

Thanks for the tips. Reconciling the different opinions would definitely be a challenge, but a fun one, I think. I didn't know about the notebook limit, but I meant to indicate that some notebooks would be inclined for more than 30 notes (for example: receipts, pay stubs). 

 

How do you organize your notes within the one notebook? Is your solution aesthetically pleasing?

 

From my perspective, software related e-books (just like printed books) get out of date so very quickly. E-Books can be updated more quickly, but even the software companies have difficulty staying current with their documentation.

 

For that reason, I prefer to get my information, tips, and answers from forums such as this site.

 

I'd argue that Evernote Essentials never really became outdated, and that book is more technical than I plan on being.

[Kirby Krieger 72]

Hi Matt,

 

 

I'd argue that Evernote Essentials never really became outdated, and that book is more technical than I plan on being.

 

Personally, I found no need for more basic instruction on using Evernote than is readily — almost abundantly — available.  I did purchase Evernote Essentials.  The resource that I think is missing and which I would pay for is a comprehensive guide to Evernote: what the parts are, what the characteristics of each part are, and how they inter-relate.

 

What you seem to be proposing sounds like an excellent project for a blog post, or a helpful series posted here.  I think you should do it _for you_ — codifying one's knowledge is always helpful — but, from what you've told us, I think you'll be disappointed if you go into it thinking it will become a money-making project.

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Good luck with the task,  and I'm sure any ideas on which you need some discussion can be raised here.  Of course you might find it difficult to reconcile the occasionally wildly conflicting views of forum colleagues into just one view - there are those forinstance who advocate intensive tagging,  and those who prefer to rely entirely on titles and searches..

 

One point - if you restrict notebooks to 30 notes,  you'll run out of space pretty quickly - there's a max of 250 notebooks,  so 7,500 notes and you're done.  There are currently users out there with 60,000 - 100,000 notes.  I have around 17,000,  mainly in one notebook,  although I maintain about 45 notebooks for general messing around and specialised uses like sharing.

 

Thanks for the tips. Reconciling the different opinions would definitely be a challenge, but a fun one, I think. I didn't know about the notebook limit, but I meant to indicate that some notebooks would be inclined for more than 30 notes (for example: receipts, pay stubs). 

 

How do you organize your notes within the one notebook? Is your solution aesthetically pleasing?

 

 

My notes are notes.  They're not 'organised' within the one notebook,  they just are.  Aesthetics doesn't come into it - from a quick review of the current listing,  a guitar festival,  school holidays,  and sous-vide cooking occupy adjacent slots,  though I won't look for information on that basis.  The first two have reminders so I'll know when they're imminent,  and the last one will be referenced if and when I need it...