If you’re a new Evernote user, you may be wondering about the best way to get started and what types of notebooks to create for organizing your notes. As you use Evernote, you will develop the methods that work best for you but for now I thought I’d share my own notebooks as an example.
When I first began using Evernote for teaching, I started with three notebooks:
As I continued collecting more ideas, I found it more useful to create notebooks for skills, resulting in notebooks such as Teaching Reading and Teaching Vocabulary. Instead of collecting notes into my original TESOL Ideas and TESOL Online Resources notebooks, I began adding ideas to the respective skill notebooks. I joined the two reading notebooks in order to form a Teaching Reading “stack." Now when I begin planning for a new class, I browse through the notebook containing notes I have collected for that skill. Here’s what my teaching notebooks look like now:
When I first began using Evernote for teaching, I started with three notebooks:
- TESOL Ideas, in which I mostly kept notes about activities, books, methods
- TESOL Online Resources, in which I used the Web Clipper to remember websites
- Reading 4/5 Bethesda Uni (Spring 2013), in which I kept the lesson plans for my class that semester
As I continued collecting more ideas, I found it more useful to create notebooks for skills, resulting in notebooks such as Teaching Reading and Teaching Vocabulary. Instead of collecting notes into my original TESOL Ideas and TESOL Online Resources notebooks, I began adding ideas to the respective skill notebooks. I joined the two reading notebooks in order to form a Teaching Reading “stack." Now when I begin planning for a new class, I browse through the notebook containing notes I have collected for that skill. Here’s what my teaching notebooks look like now:
Recently, I discovered the “Copy to Notebook” function in the Notes menu which allows you to create duplicate notes. That way, when I create a note relating to writing and vocabulary, I can duplicate the note into both my Teaching Writing and Teaching Vocabulary notebooks so that I will find it when I browse either notebook. In the future, I will probably move notes out of my original TESOL Ideas and TESOL Online Resources notebooks and place them according to skill.
Of course, this is not the only way to organize your notes. There are some who prefer just using one large notebook and using the search function or organizing by tags. Happy Evernoting!
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Of course, this is not the only way to organize your notes. There are some who prefer just using one large notebook and using the search function or organizing by tags. Happy Evernoting!
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