Receipt Organization: Through taking photos of receipts, scanning them, or through an app like Expensify, you can combine them into one Evernote note, such as 'Expenses for the San Francisco Trip.' Don’t forget about Evernote’s digital image recognition feature as well, which recognizes text and helps you search through scanned receipts. What other use cases are there for merging notes? This way, you will only need to share a single note with your team rather than several notes. For example, if you are taking an audio note (via File -> New Audio Note), you can then take a photo of the whiteboard after the meeting or class, and merge them together to create one 'super meeting' note. The merge really shines in these cases, combining multiple files for maximum organization. When you add a file to Evernote, such as a PDF or an image, Evernote defaults to creating a new note. You can select a new name for the merged note, if you want, to help describe its content, which can be useful for organization. Voila! You have now combined all your web-search into one handy note. Select all of the files you’d like to combine by clicking on them and holding Shift, and then you can right-click, then select Merge Notes. We want to free up space in the folder, without archiving the notes.

In this example, we are locating the Read Later notebook, where articles were clipped from the web with the Evernote Web Clipper tool and stored as individual notes in that notebook. Let’s walk through the merging functionality in Evernote and how you can take advantage of it in various ways.įirst, navigate to the notebook with the similar types of notes you want to condense. Merging files is important for consolidating similar items that belong together. We have previously covered how to start over in Evernote but if declaring Evernote bankruptcy sounds too dire for your tastes, you can take advantage of the merging feature to condense what could be dozens of similar notes into one, saving you lots of clutter headaches. A cluttered Evernote is an unproductive one, so it’s important to take advantage of features that allow you to clean-up your Evernote desktop, such as archiving and stacking notebooks. As you become increasingly familiar with Evernote, you may find yourself with too many notes within your notebooks.

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