In this week’s video that’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to go and use Evernote to use it as a trading journal so that way we can continue to see how our trades are going, to monitor our trades and learn from our trades. Let’s go to the screen and see how it would go.
Life is hectic and schedules are packed, which is why we practically live on our calendars. And Evernote users need access to their notes at all times. But if we’re continuously looking between Evernote and our calendar every day, it’s easy for important meetings or notes to fall through the cracks.
Some calendars have note-taking features. Some note-taking apps have a calendar. But they’re never quite as good as their true specialty. Since we’re pretty comfortable with our calendars of choice, is there a way to combine these two tools?
Luckily, some of the most popular calendars in the world can be synced with Evernote. This lets you assign dates to to-do lists and notes. We’re going to cover how to sync calendars like Google and Outlook, the apps that make it easier, and how to juggle the endless scheduling of modern life.
- You can choose the time you want the journal entry made in Evernote. It comes with four settings: 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and 45 minutes after the event enters the calendar. From there, the applet shows you a template of how the journal entry will look. You can customize the name of the new journal notebook and add tags to the.
- Here’s how to organise your journal using Evernote. Starting a prophetic prayer journal is one of the best things you can do to kickstart your growth in the gift of prophecy. But once your journal gets beyond a certain size (more than just a few entries) you’ll need a system to keep it in check.
So how do we create an effective Evernote calendar?
What is Evernote and what is it good for?
Evernote is a multi-platform note-taking application. It saves notes, to-do lists, images, media, and even webpages in a central location on the cloud. These notes can be organized into customizable folders called notebooks. Notes can be tagged like a blog, allowing you to sort and search your notes by topic.
It’s relatively easy to use, and there are tons of helpful Evernote tutorials online. Notes are stored in the cloud and accessible anywhere. Even the free version syncs with two devices. It also comes with a helpful feature called Evernote Web Clipper. The Web Clipper is a Chrome extension that lets you grab things from the internet and send them to your notebooks.
This includes straight or simplified versions of any website. This is particularly useful with cluttered websites that you need to reference often.
We’re not here to sell you Evernote, which has its own ups and downs. And, unfortunately, there is no native Evernote calendar. Instead, we’re here to help you combine two workflows into one without uprooting your entire calendar or notebook.
Connecting Google Calendar with Evernote Calendar
Google Calendar is one of the most popular calendars in the world. It’s useful, packed with features, and compatible with everything. Combining it with Evernote makes perfect sense.
The low-tech solution is to just grab your Evernote link and paste it into a calendar event. However, it’s much faster to automate the process. Plus, these applets create links both ways. Changes in Evernote can sync to the calendar, and vice versa.
Creating an Evernote Calendar journal from Google Calendar events
The following techniques use the IFTTT applet to customize both your Google Calendar and your Evernote.
IFTTT (“If This Then That”) helps you create conditional statements that can link your calendar and your Evernote for a number of different purposes.
If you’re interested in creating a journal in your Evernote that records your Google Calendar events, simply go to the IFTTT page linked here, or search for it on the main IFTTT page. They will ask for permission to access your Google Calendar: simply follow all of the click-throughs to get to a page that looks like this:
From there, follow the prompts and dropdowns to specify which calendar you’d like to create a journal from: contacts, birthdays, a work calendar, a personal calendar, etc.
You can choose the time you want the journal entry made in Evernote. It comes with four settings: 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and 45 minutes after the event enters the calendar.
From there, the applet shows you a template of how the journal entry will look. You can customize the name of the new journal notebook and add tags to the journal note.
Then, click the big “Save” button. It will offer a confirmation prompt, and then your new Evernote/Google Calendar event journal is good to go.
These journals are useful for looking at your schedule long-term. You can see how much time you’ve spent in meetings. You can judge the length of those meetings against their usefulness. You can also use the generated journals for work reports or to account for your time on projects.
Creating Evernote calendar reminders for Google events
Again, we’ll be using IFTTT to create a simple script. This script creates events in Google Calendar for reminders you make in Evernote.
First, navigate to the recipe page and click the “Connect” button. Follow any permission, authorization, and Google login prompts.
Choose which calendar you’d like the Evernote reminders to go to and click save. The best part is you can create these reminders for different calendars. Make a reminder in Evernote about your new co-worker’s birthday and send it right to the birthday calendar, for example.
Both of these methods allow you to send the most useful data between Evernote and Google Calendar.
Syncing Apple Calendar and Evernote Calendar
While Google’s calendar is generally considered more powerful, Apple’s 50% mobile market share means many people still use its native calendar. And while it does sync with iCloud, it doesn’t natively talk to Evernote.
IFTTT allows iPhone and iOS users to sync between Apple Calendar and Evernote. The process is similar to syncing with Google, with small differences. Namely, the need to download the IFTTT app to an iOS device. If you work on multiple devices, you’ll need to download the app to each one.
You can sync reminders and to-do lists and even create Siri integration with Evernote. Consider, too, the widespread nature of the Apple environment. If you have an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and an Apple Smart Home, connecting your existing Evernote account means true accessibility.
Syncing iOS reminders with an Evernote list
This IFTTT recipe will push reminders you create in the iOS calendar into a checklist on Evernote.
Navigate to the IFTTT page linked above and press “connect.” A pop-up will then ask for your phone number to send you an IFTTT download link. You have to download the IFTTT to your device for full integration.
Next, you’ll see a screen to customize how your reminders will look in the Evernote checklist.
Fields for Title, the To-do list entry, choice of Notebook, and Tags can be altered or kept as-is. Then, click “Save,” and the reminders you create on your iPhone will jump right to a clickable checklist in Evernote.
Integrating Siri and Evernote
If you don’t physically add calendar reminders and prefer voice command, there’s a different IFTTT recipe. This feature also requires the IFTTT app on your Apple device. So, go to the recipe page, click connect, and fill out the following:
Once the app is downloaded and installed, the process is straightforward. When Siri adds a reminder through voice command, it triggers the applet. In the recipe page, you can name the list, title the note, and customize the body with simple HTML tags. Again, the tags and the name of the notebook can be tailored to your organization style.
Creating notes for iOS Calendar events
Want Evernote notebooks for the calendar events that appear in your iOS Calendar? These notebooks are useful for notes taken during a call or for reflections after. They can even become a loose client database or home for your staff meeting notes.
The first step is to go to the IFTTT recipe page. Click “connect.” The next page specifies how the details from the event will import into Evernote.
Next, choose the calendar name. Shift team meeting calendars into one notebook, client meetings into another, however you want to arrange your calendar. Again, using this recipe multiple times on different calendars may be a good idea. Choose a notebook, then tag with words like “meeting,” “birthday,” or “client.” These tags make organization in Evernote extremely granular.
Click “Save” when you’re done.
Connecting Outlook’s Calendar to Evernote
Microsoft’s Outlook calendar is commonly used in offices everywhere. It has a huge install base—over 400 million users, in fact. If you are taking Evernote into the workplace, which comes with its own complications, these two can be combined to create something better.
Zapier connects Outlook and Evernote
Zapier is extremely similar to IFTTT in that it’s an applet that creates customized scripts for a ton of different purposes.
Zapier creates custom triggers for every possible combination of Evernote and Outlook’s calendar that you might need. Basically, you decide a trigger (what starts up Zapier) and the action that will occur when the event is triggered—simple if-then conditional statements. They look like this in the Zapier interface:
On the left is the “trigger,” which can be changed in the dropdown menu by the arrows on the right. The right is the “event.”
In the example, we’ve decided that when a new email is created in Outlook (the trigger), a note is created in Evernote with details on the email. You could also have a “New Notebook” created when you “Create a Contact” in Outlook. This would start a new file on a client. Or when you set a “New Reminder” in Evernote, it creates an event in Outlook.
Below are just some of the various triggers and events. They can be mixed and matched in Zapier for whatever situation you can dream up.
Once you’ve chosen your trigger and your event, click the big blue button—“Connect Evernote + Microsoft Office.” Then, follow any login prompts for either service.
Now you’re synced, connected, and ready to spend less time shuffling between apps to make your day work.
Other Apps for Evernote Calendar Integration
There are a few other apps that combine Evernote with your calendar. They’re simple to use and take the pressure off you.
Cronofy and zzBots both use similar visual interfaces to connect your calendar with Evernote. You have the freedom to pick and choose the apps that match your workflow. And both Zapier and IFTTT can be used for Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Mail, and dozens of other platforms.
No matter your platform, there is a program, applet, or script that can turn Evernote into more than just a note-taking service. This would be much easier if Evernote had its own calendar, but until then, these workarounds should do the trick.
15 Mar 2010Building on yesterday’s post on an improved template system for EvernoteI’d like to share with you how I use a variation on this system tocreate a daily journal template.
Several years ago I got fed up with getting to the end of a day andwondering where my day had gone and what I’d really achieved. Tickedoff to-do lists only ever told a fraction of the story so I began tokeep a daily journal. This has taken a variety of forms but now itlives in Evernote. Each day as I do things Ilog it. Five seconds logging anything from phone calls and e-mails toissues resolved and meetings attended. This lets me keep track ofthings from a day to day point of view (making me feel better about whatI’ve achieved) and it also helps me pull together reports on what I andmy team have been doing or even for my formal reviews. Journalling inEvernote keeps everything at my fingertips.
From that you can probably guess that I really like to have things justso. This includes the format of my journal. So that I can keep thingsup to date on my iPod touch and my PC I simply have one row per item (Igave up on bullet points as the iPod doesn’t support editing these(yet)). I have the note tagged as “Journal” and currently I keep it inan Evernote notebook also called “Journal”. So this all seems prettystraight forward and could easily be accomplished using the systemdescribed in my earlier post. The issue for me is that the title ofeach note is the date it is the journal for.
Sometimes I might create several days journals on the same dayretrospectively (e.g. after being off ill or on a course) and so havingthe date in the title is really helpful in sorting as the creation andmodified dates don’t necessarily relate to the date of the activities. I also have the date in the format “yyyy-mm-dd” to support the option tosort.
So this means that in order to create a template to create a journalnote for ‘today’, it would need to introduce some dynamically generatedcontent in the form of the date.
For any keen scripters out there, the answer and principles are probablyquite obvious and you could effectively write a script to dynamicallypopulate the note with information in any number of ways. Since this isjust dealing with the current date I was actually able to just get awaywith a few DOS commands in a batch file as shown below.
The script is relatively straight forward. It begins by setting severalvariables which indicate where to files - theENSCRIPTexecutable and the Evernote database. This is followed by the locationof three further files.
The first two of these are the static parts of the note - in this casethe first file contains everything before the note’s title and thesecond everything after the note’s title. The content of these twofiles can be seen below. The third file is just a file used temporarilyto build the note to be imported into Evernote.
The last variable is simply the name of the notebook I want the Journalnote to appear in.
With the variables set the next section concatenates the pre-title notecontent with the date in the desired format and the post-title notecontent. These are all output into the file to be imported.
The next step is the actual import of the generated note into Evernoteand once that has been done, the script removes the generated note file,clears out the variables and closes.
In case you are wondering what the content of the pre-title andpost-title files are, the contents are shown below.
Pre-title File
Post-title File
I find this script much quicker to run than creating the new note in theright notebook, typing in the date (after trying to recall what it is)and then adding the tag. I simply trigger it from PS menu (see previous article)and that’s it done.
The one thing it’s missing for me is automatically selecting the note inEvernote. It’s something I can live with for now because it’s still alittle quicker for me than creating it myself, but until a fullyintegrated template system becomes available in Evernote I think this isabout as good as I’m going to get it.
Author:Stephen MillardUsing Evernote As A Journal
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