Getting Started with Spaces

In this guide:

• Overview
• How to set up spaces
• Work more effectively as a team

 

Overview

Spaces, in Evernote Business, is the simplest way for you and your teams to focus, share, and achieve more together.

By creating a new space for each project, topic, or workgroup, your team can:

• Quickly view, share, and edit a collection of related notes and notebooks in one place
• Easily see what others on your team are working on—what’s been added or updated by someone else
• Highlight important notes by pinning them for quick reference and easy access

Once you’ve created a space, invite others to join it so they can automatically access and see updates to any notes and notebooks in that space.

 

Ways to use spaces

How you and your team decide to organize your spaces really depends on how your team works and what it wants to achieve.

EXAMPLES:

• MANAGING CLIENTS AND VENDORS

• MANAGING PROJECTS

• PROCESS MANAGEMENT

 

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How to set up spaces

Before you get started, open Evernote and explore some of the example spaces in the Space Directory. Meet with your team to determine which type of spaces make the most sense your team, then follow these three steps:

1. Create a new space
2. Fill your space with notes
3. Share your space with the team

Once you share it with your team, everyone on your team can see everything in that space. You get to decide what level of permission each person gets.

 

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 CREATE A NEW SPACE

Create a space by clicking New Space, and give your space a name.

 

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 FILL YOUR SPACE WITH NOTES

Start by creating a few notes directly from within a space. Individual notes inside a space can serve as reference guides. An ‘About this space’ note or a ‘Team Onboarding’ note, for example, are great ways to orient new team members to the space and to your team.

To add a note to your space:

1. Click the green + New Note in the sidebar
2. Add a title and some text or images

Use notebooks to organize your notes

Group a collection of related notes together into notebooks to keep your space organized and tidy.

To create a new notebook directly within that space:

1. Click New Notebook in the center of the screen or the “+ Notebook” icon in the upper-right of the screen.
2. Give your new notebook a name.

Once you’ve created a notebook, you can move a note by selecting it and dragging it where you want it. To show and hide the contents of a notebook, simply click on the arrow next to the notebook name.

 

Your team already using Evernote Business?

If you already use Evernote, you can move existing notebooks into a space. Make sure you have editing permissions for both the notebooks you’re moving and the space you’re moving them into.

To move notebooks into a space:

• From within any space, click the three dots in the notebook header, then select “Move Notebook to”, and select a space you want to move it to.
• From any notebook list, locate an existing notebook you’d like to move, then right-click, and select “Move Notebook”

Note: Notebooks can only live in one space at a time.

 

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 SHARE YOUR SPACE WITH THE TEAM

Once you’ve added a few notes and notebooks to your space, it’s time to invite your team so everyone can work together.

1. Click the “Invite” button to invite anyone who is a part of your company’s Evernote Business account.
2. Decide whether team members will be able to view, edit, or invite others on a person-by-person basis. Note: Once you’ve invited team members to join, they’ll have the same level of permission for any notes and notebooks inside that space.
3. See whom you’ve shared a space with by looking at the upper-right of the screen.

 

Share your space with everyone in the business account

To allow anyone in the Evernote Business account to see or join your space, select “List in Space Directory for your business” in the ‘Create a space’ window. To access the Space Directory, click Space Directory at the bottom of your Spaces list.

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Work more effectively as a team

Spaces are designed to help you and your team stay updated without having to send additional emails to each other.

Each space conveniently displays:

• What’s New: All recently created and updated notes
• Pinned Notes: Notes that have been pinned for quick access

 

WHAT’S NEW

Find out which notes inside a space you and others on your team have recently added and updated. This view of your notes is automatically refreshed and especially helpful for keeping team members updated as projects move forward.

 

PINNED NOTES

Provide quick access to notes you want to call attention to, such as project overviews, process guidelines, or recent reports.

To pin a note using Evernote Web:

1. Click Edit
2. Select the note or notes you want to pin from the list
3. Click Done