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After almost 30 years in public education, 16 of them as a school administrator, I've noticed something every year: the students who have the smoothest year aren't necessarily the smartest ones. They're the ones with a system, usually set up by a parent before the first bell ever rings.
Here are 5 simple, low-cost habits worth putting in place now, before the school year gets busy:
A locker divider (a few dollars) solves a daily headache
One designated spot for papers that need a parent's eyes
A shared family calendar
A student planner, notepad, or even an index card
The one-binder method, with regular purging
None of these is complicated on its own. Together, they add up to a calmer year for your whole family. Pick one and start today…
"For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned." — Benjamin Franklin
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." — A.A. Milne
Staying Up-to-Date With Evernote
If you’re an Evernote user, this video goes through what’s new:
00:53 Catch up on all product updates in the What’s New section
01:28 Chapter 1: Writing, formatting, and navigating your notes
01:31 New feature! Callout blocks
02:05 Improvements to the Insert menu and slash commands on Desktop
02:29 New feature! Floating Table of Contents
02:54 The redesigned Inline toolbar for formatting on Desktop
03:29 New link view options and YouTube link embedding
04:25 New feature! Tabs
04:58 New feature! Mermaid diagrams
06:28 Chapter 2: Working with AI
06:44 New feature! AI Prompts
07:32 New feature! AI Memory
08:29 Chapter 3: Capture audio, effortlessly
08:48 Live transcription and using AI Assistant during a recording
09:18 Different recording modes for voice memos and meetings
09:41 Use AI Prompts to take the next step from an audio transcription
09:48 How to translate or regenerate a transcript, and partially transcribe audio
10:00 Chapter 4: Evernote on your phone (or tablet!)
10:05 The new formatting toolbar on mobile
10:23 New feature! AI Assistant is available on mobile
10:48 How to change the position of the AI Assistant button on mobile
11:11 The new camera and scanning experience on mobile
3 Power Moves for a Smooth Year
Thanks to MiddleWeb for providing the space to bring this article to you. We have the tools at our disposal to make hard things easy. Put your plan in place now to leverage these three areas.
Explore AI Prompts on Evernote
Long-time Evernote users all over the world are playing catch-up with the new AI capabilities. If you are in that category, this video is less than 2 minutes and will be a good start towards understanding the capability. (Even the free plan allows you to do what you see here.)
Upcoming PLU
We just started a new section of the Get Organized Digitally! book study.
Registration is now open for Practical AI for School Leaders. The course starts Sept. 1 and earns Alabama school leaders an ACLD-approved PLU and 32 APLDS clock hours.
Additional Resources
Evernote Made Easy (updated to include Evernote 11). So much about Evernote has changed in just the last couple of years. This ebook brings you up to date. In a digital world where information is power, making organizing your information easy is huge.
Maybe Google Drive is More Your Style. Is Google Drive the place where you store your information? If so, I have an ebook for you. I've taken what I know about developing a system for digital notes and applied it to Google Drive.
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Visit the Website. Whether it’s enjoying free content on the blog (all searchable), listening to a guest podcast episode, or finding out how to work with me, FrankBuck.org is the place to be
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