People who know me well know that I'm an evangelist for Evernote. I try to be casual about it by asking, 'Do you use a note-taking app?' but I make an effort to sound super-rhetorical.

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A lot of people will insist that they take notes, or they have some equivalent system. I venture to say that whatever they're doing could be better.

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Enter Evernote

• note-centric app for organizing information
• desktop and mobile clients sync notes
• content management basics like notebooks, tags

To fully embrace Evernote is to admit that its not possible to remember all the things. I get a sense of relief when I put something into Evernote because I don't need to worry about remembering it anymore. I just need to remember that I put it in Evernote, which I do with everything. This system works pretty well. Like many things: you will get out of it what you put into it.

Of course, to put something into Evernote is not to learn it, or even to actually remember it. It's like cold storage for information that you might need to recall but won't be able to memorize.

Tips for Developers

1) Outsource Your Memory

Developers have to keep track of an insane amount of details. Any given project might include:

• dependencies/version numbers
• credentials/keys
• server names
• error/log output
• urls
• complicated CLI commands
• documentation ( hopefully )

By nature our work requires organization. It requies more organization than you can accomplish in a bunch of txt files. Email is not a place for storing important information ( both gmail and Outlook have evernote clipping extensions ).

Suggestion: When working with an API, take a pretty-printed copy of the response and save it as a note. This will be easier to pull up and reference while you're parsing the data - or troubleshooting it in the future if the API goes down or the response changes.

2) Keep It Organized

The best developers are the organized ones ( whether they agree to write documentation is a separate issue ). While Evernote offers several ways to categorize your data, it's up to the user to actually do the organization.

Notebooks are the most major level of organization, but are really just arbitrary buckets.

Notes can also have multiple tags. I often add a few tags to group notes by a particular technology like: docker-compose, express, webpack. This makes it easier to lookup my own notes by subject, when they're generally specific to a project.

There is a feature called 'Search Grammar' which can help build more complex queries, which becomes useful after you've got a ton of similar notes in your account. Its kind of like SQL for your notes:

wildcard is supported:

memcache*

multiple word search:

any: esp8266 dht11

tag(s) search:

tag:drupal solr

The 'created' operator can be used with a YYYYMMDD format:

created:20170704

or with a relative time format. Finding notes from the past ten days:

created:day-10

Combining multiple statements allows more complex expressions. For example, finding notes updated within the last month mentioning 'docker-machine':

updated:month-1 docker-machine

Your need to use this search syntax will depend on the size and complexity of your archive. I rarely need this level of querying power as a human, but I notice that 'Search Grammar' exists in their API as well. If I were creating/querying notes with the API, this would seem like a no-brainer.

3) Index Everything: Multimedia / OCR Search

Evernote can index and search the text inside screenshots and images that you've added to notes. ( Also inside PDF & MS Office documents if you pay for Premium )

The optical character recognition in images is really impressive. Taking a quick snapshot of a document, recepit, manual, contract, diagram, etc - will make the text indexed and searchable! Hardstyle and mix and download. Take screenshots of those meeting whiteboards.

4) Stay On Task

When the open internet is your workplace, it can be easy to get distracted by any number of stimuli that are not the job at hand. Evernote can help you out here also, allowing you an organized place to stash away information for reading or using later.

Even when information you encounter online is relevant to the task at hand, the process of correctly filing it for later reference can disrupt your flow. The Chrome Web Clipper Extension is really helpful here, and can even suggest under which notebook a note should be stored. It can extract in text-only mode, or with more media included.

I have a notebook named 'Read&Delete', which is just a container for things that I intend to read someday. The Chrome extension does a pretty good job of retaining all the various syntax highlighting and screenshots used in development blogs. My favorite way to pass time when traveling is to catch up on all the reading that I filed away to avoid being distracted.

5) Share The Info

Shared Notebooks allow multiple users to access and edit the same notes - similar to Google docs but not as snappy. This is a great way to give another user(s) access to an easily maintainable subset of your notes.

There is also a feature for sharing 'one-off' links to individual notes. Similar to sharing a gist or codepen, this provides access to some information that might be dynamic.

Which Plan Do You Need?

They've re-arranged their tiered pricing a few times, but the fact remains that the most useful features are available in the most affordable tier. ( 'Plus' is currently available for $35/yr )
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My Evernote Wish List:

While it is highly convenient and reliable, Evernote can seem a little bit 'closed' to developers who have worked with open source software. Every time I wonder if Evernote has a particular feature, I wind up on their forums where a bunch of smart people have already asked about it and nothing has happened. The pace of feature development feels cautious and methodical.

1) Plugins Please?

I understand that they can't support every niche feature request, but this seems like the perfect place for a plugin architecture. Developers love plugins. Plugins are possibly my favorite thing about Sublime Text. ( Developers also write plugins for free all the time - because they want them )

A few plugins I would love to see are:

• Markdown syntax support
• Syntax highlighting for various software languages
• git/gist integration

2) Linux Matters

The single feature request that I would want before anything else is a Linux desktop client. The Windows client provides a powerful user interface that really boosts productivity ( especially when working between multiple notes simultaneously ). The web client is the only option for Linux users, and leaves a lot to be desired.

Conclusion

Don't kid yourself, you can't remember it all. Embrace a digital note taking solution and find out how much more information you can retain by keeping it outside of your head.

Consider how Evernote might help you organize your other personal/artistic/financial goals.

Data Model

Understanding how Evernote stores data

Overview

• The Cloud API allows direct access to the raw data in a user's account.
• For complete guide to all objects and properties, see the API reference.

The following diagram shows the major data structures and key fields for the primary objects managed by the Evernote service for each user, and the basic relationships between those objects. These objects correspond to the items that a user sees in their account: notes, notebooks, tags, etc.

This page simply describes the objects themselves. To learn how to create and manipulate the objects from your application, see later chapters in this documentation.

The structures on the left side of the diagram (User, Accounting, UserAttributes) are accessed via the UserStore service, while the ones on the right are accessed via the NoteStore service.

Each of the core NoteStore objects is identified by a globally unique identifier (GUID) that is assigned by the service when the object is first created. This identifier does not change for the lifetime of the object and is used to refer to the object in later API calls.

Each of these objects also has an update sequence number (USN) that is changed whenever the object is modified on the service. Each updated object receives a new USN whenever a change is committed. The USN values are unique and monotonically increasing within an account, so that a client can inspect any two objects in order to determine which was more recently modified.

User

Every Evernote user is represented by one User object in the Evernote service.

Accounting

Each User has a set of associated Accounting information that allows clients to determine the level of service available for that user, such as the monthly 'uploadLimit', which specifies the number of bytes of new content that the user can upload into their account each month.

Note

A Note represents a single unit of information within an Evernote account. A note is made up of a single body section (the content) and zero or more associated Resources (images, audio, PDF, etc.). The note's structure is similar to a MIME email message: the body is made up of hypertext, and the resources represent embedded 'attachments' that the body can refer to.

Each note exists in only one Notebook at a time. It is not possible for a single note to exist in two different notebooks. If the note is copied, a new note is created. If the new note is edited, the original will not be changed.

A note's content is stored as a block of text in Evernote Markup Language (ENML) format. To learn about the details of this format, which is largely a subset of XHTML, see the chapter on ENML.

The note contains a block of ENML even when the note does not appear to contain hypertext. For example, a plaintext note is just a simple ENML document, and an image note is just a small ENML placeholder with a reference to an embedded binary resource containing the image bytes.

The placement of a resource (e.g. image or audio) within the hypertext is represented using an <en-media> tag. For example:

The hash attribute contains an MD5 checksum of the corresponding resource's bytes, which is used as an unambiguous identifier that points from the hypertext to one of the note's attached resources. This identifier is used instead of the resource's GUID so that the note and all its resources can be created and copied without needing to replace the identifier in the copied note.

Note that this HTML tag must be replaced with a display-specific alternative at some point before rendering the content. For example, when the <en-media> tag refers to an image, it is usually replaced with an <img> tag that refers to a locally downloaded copy of the corresponding image resource. This replacement can happen at rendering time or when the data is first loaded/modified by a client. The modified data is specific client and is not generated by or sent to the Evernote service.

Every note also has a set of NoteAttributes that carry additional information about the note such as creation time, size, origin, etc. These attributes are useful for searching and filtering of notes.

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Notebook

Each user account contains at least one Notebook. Notebooks are used to organize collections of Notes. Each notebook has a name, which must be unique within the owner's account. Notebooks can be grouped into stacks, which contain one or more notebooks, but cannot directly contain notes. A given user's account may contain up to EDAM_USER_NOTEBOOKS_MAX notebooks.

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Important

When using constant values enforced by the Evernote service (for example the maximum number of notebooks or a maximum name length), your code should refer to the constants defined in the API wrapper code instead of hardcoding values. For example, use 'EDAM_USER_NOTEBOOKS_MAX' instead of '250'.

Each account has a single notebook that is marked as the default notebook. This is the notebook that will receive any notes that are created without explicitly specifying a destination notebook. The default notebook can be changed by updating another notebook to set its default flag to true. When a new notebook is made the default, the Evernote service automatically sets the default flag to false on the previous default notebook. If the default notebook is ever deleted from the account, the Evernote service will update the oldest remaining notebook to be the default.

The Evernote service does not permit the last notebook to be deleted from a user's account, which guarantees that there is always a notebook that can be used to store new notes.

When a user marks a notebook as public, the Evernote service adds a Publishing structure that contains the information about accessing and displaying that notebook. This includes the unique URI that can be used (in conjunction with the username) to construct the full public notebook URL for use in web browsers.

Resource

A Resource is a binary data block that is associated with a single Note, similar to an attachment for an email message. Resources typically contain images, audio clips, PDFs, documents, etc.

Each resource may have a set of ResourceAttributes that describe its system-defined properties. For example, meta-data from images may be extracted from a JPEG EXIF block and stored as searchable attributes on the resource.

Unlike web pages, which refer to images and other attachments using URLs that may reference content on other servers, the full content of a resource is stored on the Evernote service along with the corresponding note. This permits full synchronization of a user's data across systems and ensures that a note will remain available even if the content from which it originated is lost or changed.

Any type of file can be attached to a Note as a Resource, regardless of whether a user has a Free or Premium account. When creating a Resource, a MIME type must be set to indicate the file’s content type. The following are some of the standard types that Evernote clients are able to display. Other Resource types may be shown as an attachment in an Evernote client and will need to be opened in an external viewer/editor. The default type 'application/octet-stream' should be used if a more specific type is not known.

• image/gif
• image/jpeg
• image/png
• audio/wav
• audio/mpeg
• audio/amr
• application/vnd.evernote.ink
• application/pdf

A resource may also have a block of recognition data that can be used to find text within binary resources such as images. The recognition block for each resource is stored in the custom 'recoData' XML format, which specifies the various recognized regions of text in an image along with the alternate words that may be found in that region. To learn more about this, see the chapter on image recognition.

Tag

Each user account contains a set of zero or more Tags, which are an organizational tool to help users find relevant notes. Tags are applied only to Notes; Notebooks, Resources and other objects cannot be tagged.

Tags are full objects in the Evernote data model. A note with the tag 'food' does not store the string 'food', but instead includes a reference to the tag object with the name 'food'. The tag's name is unique within the user's account. If a note has been assigned the tag 'food', then this is the same tag as 'food' on any other note in the account. Each tag can be assigned to any number of notes, and each note may have any number of tags.

While many users may be comfortable finding and using their tags from a flat, alphabetized list, advanced users may want organization in order to help find a particular tag. The data model includes a simple organization scheme where a tag can be moved to be a 'child' of another tag within the tag list. The location of a tag underneath its 'parent' does not imply any semantic relationship between these tags. This is intended as a simple layout option for the list of all tags. A tag with no assigned parent is considered to be a 'top level' tag for purposes of display and navigation.

Each tag can only have one parent, so it cannot be moved under two different tags in the organizational scheme. The Evernote service will not permit the creation of a new 'expenses' tag underneath the 'business' tag if an 'expenses' tag already exists in that account.

Tags are shared across notebooks. If notes in two different Notebooks have a tag named 'cooking', then those notes have the same Tag.

Tags are only assigned to a note as part of an explicit user action. They are not automatically created based on note attributes, and they are not created as part of automated search filters. Searching based on note attributes (such as creation time and size) is supported, but this is independent from the 'Tag' mechanism, which is reserved for user-assigned labels.

SavedSearch

Each account contains zero or more SavedSearches, which can be used to find a set of Notes meeting various criteria. These criteria can include a combination of keywords, tags and attributes. These criteria can be saved within the account for re-use at a later date, and each saved search has a unique name within that account for ease of identification.

A saved search includes a 'query' string, which contains a search expression that is represented using the Evernote search grammar documented in the search grammar chapter. The saved search is just a stored query; it is not directly associated with any of the notes which would happen to match if this query were executed. This is different from a tag, which has an explicit relationship with its notes in the data model. A saved search can be thought of as a 'smart tag' whose corresponding notes are only determined when the query is executed.

When the query is executed, Evernote will select all of the notes that meet the search's criteria, as if those criteria had been manually re-entered into an Evernote client's search GUI or sent to the findNotes function.