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[alicat2500 1]

Forgive me for submitting such an elementary question, but I am a novice at this; I am using Evernote as a recipe holder, and I am scanning my recipes into notebooks, and when I do, the title comes up as a pdf, do I have to enter in the name of the recipe in order to be able to search for the recipe, or does that negate the pdf . Also, how do I search using a pdf file? (I told you I was a novice at this)

[Sentinel 195]

Hi alicat2500,

 

Your question truly is not elementary.  Discussions continue this day among Evernote Power Users on how to Name and Search for files. One thing that they all agree on is creating a name filing system that works best for you.  They also all agree to use Tags in conjunction with Title Names.  

 

Evernote searches for Titles and Tags.  You can search for just Titles or just Tags or both.  More on that later.

 

Titles:  I follow the Power User's lead on this as well.  Let me give you an example.  If you scanned a Chicken & Sausage Gumbo recipe, you could name your Note Title something like this:  

 

Gumbo Chicken and Sausage Cajun Recipe  or  Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Cajun Recipe  or  Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Recipe

 

This is totally up to you and how you may think about it in your mind later when you want to search.

 

Tags:  You could place the following Tags with this Note:

 

gumbo,chicken & sausage,cajun,recipe  (some may say to break up chicken & sausage to be like this:  gumbo,chicken,sausage,cajun,recipe)

 

Once again, what words might you use in the future to search for that recipe?  Use those words in your Titles and Tags.

 

How to Search:  http://www.cloudproductivity.net/6-tips-amazing-evernote-search/

 

Yes, Evernote can search within your PDFs, but the PDF needs to be scanned properly for OCR Text Recognition (a little redundant). Your scanner most likely does this already.  See this explanation: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/50778-ocr-a-pdf-document/

 

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/25790-howto-add-existing-pdfs-to-evernote-answered/

 

Going Paperless

http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/turn-evernote-into-the-ultimate-paperless-system-with-scanned-pdfs--cms-20486

 

For information in the future, there is the Evernote Knowledge Base:  http://evernote.com/contact/support/kb/#!/product/evernote

 

When seeking assistance on this Forum, users can best help you if you provide the Operating System you use and the version of Evernote.  Those things make a difference in getting the answers you need.

 

I hope this helps!

[jefito 5,589]

Forgive me for submitting such an elementary question, but I am a novice at this; I am using Evernote as a recipe holder, and I am scanning my recipes into notebooks, and when I do, the title comes up as a pdf, do I have to enter in the name of the recipe in order to be able to search for the recipe, or does that negate the pdf . Also, how do I search using a pdf file? (I told you I was a novice at this)

Not sure if this was answered, but no, you can change the title without losing the PDF, which is an attachment.