Search the Notes You Saved for Years Through Evernote

You can connect Evernote to your muse and search years of saved notes and attachments by asking in plain words, then turn what you find into new notes and tasks without digging through the app.

What it does

Many people have an Evernote account that works like a memory drawer: recipes, receipts, meeting notes, saved articles, and ideas clipped over years, all hard to find again. Connected, your muse searches your notes, notebooks, shared Spaces, and tags, and reads the note you meant. It can read a note's attachments, such as a photo or a file, and save new notes into the right notebook. Before creating one, it reads related notes first, so you do not end up with duplicates. Evernote tasks live here too. The muse can find your tasks, including ones assigned to you on a team account, and add new ones with due dates.

How to use it

1. Check the connection in your muse. If Evernote is not connected, the muse gives you a connect link. Sign in once.
2. Start with a find you can check: "Find my note about the car insurance renewal." Read what comes back against what you remember.
3. Narrow by notebook or tag when a search brings back too much: "Only in my Recipes notebook."
4. Ask for a summary of a long note, or what a note's attachment shows, before you open the original.
5. When you add something, name the notebook: "Save this as a note in House, and make a task to call them Monday."
6. Check a new task's due time after you set it. Due times are stored in universal time, so a quick read-back catches a clock mix-up before it matters.

What you need

• A muse account
• An Evernote account with your notes in it
• A few minutes to test the first searches against notes you know well

What to watch for

• The muse only sees the Evernote account you connect. Notes in another account or another notes app stay out of reach.
• Deleting is careful on purpose. A deleted note moves to the trash, where it can be restored, and deleting asks your approval first. Nothing is removed quietly.
• If saving a note seems to fail, ask the muse to search for it before trying again. Evernote may already have saved it, and a second try makes a duplicate.
• A summary is a shortcut, not the note. For a number, a date, or exact wording you plan to rely on, open the original and read that part yourself.