Evernote is a software program used to create and store content. You can create your own content or use the features of Evernote to collect content from external sources. Evernote can be used for many different types of content including text, audio, video, images, pdfs. Evernote has many features to help create content including hyperlinking, checklists, formatting, reminders, voice memos, table of contents creator, and many more. Evernote is an incredibly robust content creation and storage system for your digital information.

You can also share documents both privately and publicly from Evernote. Because Evernote is a web-based program your data is synced and can be accessed across multiple devices at any time. You can work offline and online with Evernote so an internet connection is not essential to using Evernote.

Initially, you start using Evernote by creating an individual note as a document. You can then organize your individual notes into ‘notebooks’ which are Evernote’s term for folders. You can organize your notes based on your specific criteria whether you are using a project based system, calendar system, or list of topics.
In some of our blog posts, you may have noticed we offer a free Evernote download for some worksheets and templates. These templates can be freely accessed by clicking the links in each post and then saving them to your Evernote account to use in the future.

Here is a collection of some of the Evernote documents you can download. The FREE Evernote document can be found at the end of each blog post:

• Free Social Media Schedulers Review
• Using Reiki to Deal with Anger
• 10 Reiki Associations and Organizations

Evernote offers a Basic Account option that is free. You can also pay a subscription amount for additional premium features.

Below is a list of some of the benefits of using Evernote for blogging:

 

• You can access Evernote across multiple devices such as your desktop, tablet, or phone. You will need internet access to sync your data, however, you can work offline while creating content
• The web clipper features allows you to save links, images, and whole articles for referencing in any blog content that you create
• Handwritten notes can be scanned using Evernote’s free app Scanable
• Share your notes with collaborators or editors to create and finalize your blog writing content
• Create a template to use each time you create a blog post
• Link Evernote to WordPress. (use IFTTT recipe, CoSchedule Plugin, or copy/paste your content)

When creating a template, your aim is to create an outline that best represents a set of tasks that you repeat each time. Much like you may have a process that you repeat each time you make a coffee, a document that you use regularly should be approached the same way.

Before you create your template, it is helpful to explore the workflow you have in place for blogging. This analysis can help you create a template as well as highlight any areas of inefficiency that you may like to revise in your blogging workflow. You may find areas where you are duplicating work or doing tasks that are no longer required. This is a good time to revise those procedures and streamline your workflow where possible.

The most common methodology to writing a blog post involves some of the below steps:

• Collecting ideas – collecting all of your ideas into one spot to formulate the final ideas that you want to blog about. The content you gather also forms part of your reference material for writing your post.
• Draft writing – the best approach to any writing is simply to start writing. The sooner you start, the more you can avoid procrastination and overthinking about the process. Your first attempt should always be edited as you refine your ideas.
• Editing – this is the most important part of writing content. Editing gives you the opportunity to correct spelling, grammar, and also refine the flow of your writing so that it can be understood by your reader.
• Publish – publishing your article online on your website as well as on any social media or other promotional platforms.

Below we have included a suggested Blog Post template. You can access this template in Evernote format by purchasing our Blogging Package here.

BLOG POST OUTLINE

Research Notes (this section not included in blog post):

• includes links to ideas
• brainstorming headings etc

SUMMARISE YOUR BLOG POST HEADINGS

1. Introduction
2. What is the problem
3. What is the solution
4. Call to Action
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Blog Post Title (include keyword)
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INTRODUCTION

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Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages.

Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

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CALL TO ACTION

• Download
• Comment
• Share on social media

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1. Develop a notebook/folder structure to organise your content
2. Establish a blog schedule
3. Develop a blog template https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2017/05/05/uncovering-templates-hidden-gem-evernote/
4. Develop a blog workflow using Evernote eg. Idea collection, drafts, editing, published, structure by calendar or topic
5. Work on your blog in batches where possible. Eg. Create all blog post outlines in one work session.
6. Use a checklist to ensure you have covered the essential criteria of your blog post.
7. Use Evernote’s web clipper to save research material from the internet
8. Scan hand written notes and offline paperwork directly into Evernote
9. Email items directly into your Evernote account
10. Send Google Alerts to your Evernote account for later review.

If you need help to begin or develop a blog on your website, we have an Evernote Blogging Package available in the store. Below is a snapshot of the content within the Evernote Blogging Package

You can find more details on the Blogging package on the website here: Evernote Blogging Package

The Evernote Blogging Package provides you with the foundations of the type of blog posts that would suit a Reiki practitioner and wellbeing therapist. Also included is a step by step easy to follow formula to help you create your title and blog post content.

If you want to blog on your Reiki website, then this blogging package is for you.

The blogging package provides you with the foundations of the type of blog posts that would suit a Reiki practitioner and wellbeing therapist. Also included is a step by step easy to follow formula to help you create your title and blog post content.

The resources in this blogging package makes the process of creating blog content so much easier. You will save hours of time trying to construct the perfect blog layout because the work has already been done for you.

This blogging package contains tips and tricks that will help motivate you to create blog content with more productive writing effort.

The blogging package is full of actionable advice to help you establish a streamlined process of creating blog content.

This blogging package contains practical advice that can be implemented to help you create your blog content immediately.

After working through this package you will:

have a better understanding of the approach you should take when planning your blogging content
construct your own blogging content planner for the year using our planner templates
Create a catchy blog title for your blog post that will help your blog post gain traction on internet search engines
use our step by step blog post template to create your blog content
use our blog post checklist to review your blog post before posting it on your website

This product purchase is a collection of Evernote documents to be saved in your Evernote program.

The contents of this package include the following sections:

BLOG ADMIN

• Blog Post Ideas Worksheet
• Content planner
• Writing Tips

BLOG WRITING

• Types of blog posts
• Creating your blog post title
• Writing methodology
• Blog post template
• Blog post checklist

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BLOG ADMIN

Blog Post Ideas
You can choose to plan your blog post ideas individually or based on a theme. Use this section to help brainstorm all of your blog content ideas and then curate them into a blog content plan.

Content planner
Included in this package is a content planner template that will help you create a blog content calendar for both a minimal amount of blog posting or an increased level of blog posting. Use the blank planner to create your own personalised blog content planner.

Writing Tips
Use these useful writing tips to help boost your writing productivity through the process of creating a writing ritual as well as setting goals and staying motivated to create your written content.

BLOG WRITING

Types of blog posts
Included in this package is a list of the 7 most common types of blog posts that suit a Reiki therapist website. You will also be provided with a general outline of the content of each blog post type.

Creating your blog post title
Use our blog post title formula for creating the most memorable title for your blog post. Included in this section is a link to a headline analyzer tool that will help you improve your blog post title.

Writing methodology
In this package we’ve included instructions for the essential components of blog content creation:

• Research
• Outline
• Writing
• Editing

Included in this package is a step by step breakdown of the writing methodology including actions and timeframes that will help you write both small and large blog posts.

Blog post template
Use the included blog post template to create a well written blog post that is based on the step by step writing methodology we’ve included in this package.

Blog post checklist
Use this checklist for your blog post to ensure you have created blog content that will boost your website visibility on the internet.

You can learn more about Evernote and it’s many uses from our previous posts: 10 Blogging Tools to Increase Your Blog Writing Productivity

As a Reiki practitioner, your knowledge and expertise are integral to providing a professional service to your clients. That knowledge and expertise is usually built from educating yourself and using resources and tools to help develop your Reiki skillset over time.

As a business owner, good resources and tools can play an integral part to help you build a suite of tools that you can trust to ensure your business practices are safe, ethical, and financially secure.

Fortunately, for those of us who operate a practice in this modern era with a heavy reliance on technology, we have a broad range of tools and resources available to use in our private practice. The downside is this access to information can sometimes be overwhelming and we run the risk of becoming paralyzed by options and therefore avoid using any of them. If we are to effectively use these tools, then it can benefit us to record them and organize them for easy access.

Some of the most common tools or resources we may use in our Reiki practice include:

• Reiki practice courses
• Content creations programs
• Client management systems
• Calendars
• Communication tools (eg. Email)
• Social media tools
• Marketing tools and resources
• Financial management systems
• Planning tools
• Self-care resources

Essentially, we can categorize the most common tools and resources under the below areas:

• Educational
• Reiki Practice
• Business
• Self-care

 

As your Reiki practice is based on your personal approach, you will have more clarity on what categories are most useful to you in terms of classifying tools and resources.

Throughout your career as a Reiki therapist, you will come across many helpful resources. After some time, your resources will build up and you can lose track of what you have available to use. This becomes counterintuitive to your initial desire to seek resources that will help improve your Reiki practice.

In these circumstances, it can be beneficial to track your resources so they don’t become a graveyard of neglected ideas.

There are many software programs that provide the ability to list and maintain resource lists. One important idea is to use a system that provides cloud-based access. This means you can access your list of resources no matter where you are or what device you are using.

We think Evernote is one of the best options that provides the ability to store and maintain useful resources. Evernote is used as an excellent writing tool, however, it has extra features that enable it to be used in a planning capacity for your Reiki business.

You can send information directly from the internet into your Evernote documents. You can share documents privately and publicly and as it is a web-based program, your data is synced so that you can access your account across multiple devices at any time.

Evernote’s organization system is based on notebooks which are similar to folders. This allows you to organize your notes according to a project and keep sections well defined with individual notes. Evernote also has some other useful planning type features such as reminders and checklists.

Evernote is available as both a free and paid service depending on your level of use.

 

Evernote offers a lot of different formatting options as part of the program. It is similar to other content software where you can create lists, use bullet points, and add checklists. You can also add html links, audio, images, and attachments.

When creating your template, you can use many different options to help make your list more meaningful to you and how you like to access your data.

The most simplified format is a bullet list, which is the option we have provided in the free resource for this blog post.

Before creating your Evernote template, think about the main categories of information that you like to regularly access. You might like to start by writing down all the resources that you want to record. You can do this in an Excel spreadsheet or in Evernote itself.

As you review your list, make note of how you can categorize the data. For our template, we categorized the list as below:

• Reiki Education Resources
• Mental Health Resources
• Meditation Resources
• Business Online Resources
• Business Marketing Resources
• Business Productivity Resources
• Business Tools Resources

Once you have created your headings, you can begin to record the information that you want beneath each category. Once you’ve completed your list, you can access it at any time from any device with an internet connection. This means you can update it at any time no matter what device you are using.

Once you’ve created this first list of resources, you can use this list as a template for any future resources.

For example, you may want to use the above categories to record all of your day to day Reiki practice resources.

You may want to create a separate list that records all of the courses that you are undertaking that relate to those categories. You can choose to consolidate or split your lists as much as you want. The effectiveness of Evernote means once you have created your first list, you can use it as a template to create lists in the future.

Below are some suggestions for additional reading on the topic of resources and tools for your Reiki practice:

 

• Task Management Software For Planning Your Reiki Business
• 10 Planning Tools for Your Reiki Practice
• 10 Tools to Boost Your Productivity
• Creating Forms and Templates for Your Reiki Practice
• Resources for Reiki Practitioners

To run a successful Reiki practice, it’s useful to develop aspects of your business that help support your central work of client care. These aspects can include providing educational material as well as supporting products and services that supplement your direct client work.

These supplemental products and services might include:

• Blogging – educational development
• Ecourses
• Ebooks
• Products and templates

Additionally, as you create administrative and marketing materials for your business, you need to utilize software that helps you create and store this material. Once you decide on the type of content that you want to create for your Reiki practice, you need to choose software to write in. Most people have access to a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, however, a number of programs exist that provide word processing features in addition to other features that make creating content more dynamic.

This blog post covers two options of software (Evernote and Scrivener) that can provide what you need to develop content for your Reiki practice.

Evernote is a software program for creating content as well as storing important information. These features are what make Evernote a more dynamic product than Microsoft Word. You can create your content from a blank template or use the various features of Evernote to collate content from external sources. Evernote can store various types of content including text, audio, video, images, pdfs. Other useful features within Evernote include hyperlinking, checklists, formatting, reminders, voice memos, table of contents creator, and more. Evernote is a comprehensive program for your digital content creation and storage.

You can also share content that you create in Evernote both privately and publicly. Evernote is a web-based program and therefore your data is synced and accessed across multiple devices at any time. You can work both offline and online with Evernote so an internet connection is not essential to using Evernote.

The basic premise of Evernote is to create a document called a ‘Note’. You can then organize these notes into notebooks which are Evernote’s term for folders. You can organize your notes based on your criteria whether you are using a project-based system, calendar system, or list of topics.

In some of our blog posts, we offer a free Evernote download. These templates can be freely accessed by clicking the links in each post and then saving them to your Evernote account to use in the future.

For more tips on using Evernote, check out our previous blog post: 10 Tips Using Evernote for Blogging to read more about Evernote

Below is a collection of some of the FREE Evernote documents that we have created for you to download. The FREE Evernote document can be found at the end of each blog post:

• Free Social Media Schedulers Review
• Using Reiki to Deal with Anger
• 10 Reiki Associations and Organizations

Evernote offers a Basic Account option that is free. You can also pay a subscription amount for additional premium features.

Evernote has many benefits that will help you create and manage your written content for your blog, general website content, ebook content or course creation content including:

• You can use it anywhere with access across multiple devices such as your desktop, tablet, or phone. You will need internet access to sync your data.
• Use the web clipper feature to save links, images, and whole articles for reference. The web clipper has features that will help you saved your data in an organized form.
• You can scan your handwritten notes and art therapy artwork and save it into Evernote through Evernote’s free app Scanable
• Organize notebooks according to your blogging workflow, eg. Idea collection, drafts, editing, published, structure by calendar or topic
• Share your notes with collaborators or editors to create and finalize your blog writing content
• Set up blog templates to use each time you create a blog post or standard written document for your practice
• Link your Evernote account to WordPress. (use IFTTT recipe, CoSchedule Plugin, or copy/paste your content)
• Set to-do lists and reminders

Evernote offers many useful features to record, store, and recall content.

Scrivener is a software program that is used to create written content. Scrivener is similar to Microsoft Word, however, it provides a more robust content management system for your content writing.

When using Microsoft Word, you usually create one document where the content is created sequentially and focuses on a single topic. When you want to write about another topic or work on a new project, you then create a separate Word document.

Each new document has to be managed as multiple separate files on your computer. You also have to remember the content that you created in each file or otherwise open each file until you find the content you want.

This process is better managed in Scrivener where all of your content and multiple projects remain stored within one master file. Your Scrivener master file works similarly to a filing cabinet where you can create folders and subfolders. This enables you to keep your projects separate from each other, yet easily access each project as they are contained within the one master file. You only need to manage one file which makes it easier to back up or transfer your file between computers.

Below is a snapshot of a Scrivener project. It is the Admin Package we have available in the store. On the left-hand side of the image, you can see an outline of the file structure. Each name that you can see on the left-hand side represents a separate writing file that you can click into and access your content.

The benefit of having all your writing content in one file is that you can switch between tasks without having to open multiple individual documents. This makes searching and moving content an easier process when everything is stored in one file.

Scrivener is a popular software program amongst writers of all industries. Some of the projects that Scrivener has been used for include:

• Non-fiction book
• Fiction book
• Ebooks
• Screenplay
• Thesis
• Research project
• Course planning
• Blogging

Once your content is written, you can then export your content to ebooks, pdf, and HTML which means you can make your content accessible to those who do not use Scrivener.

If you want to learn more about Scrivener and its powerful features, you can take this FREE course on Udemy (no affiliation with this course): Get Started With Scrivener – Includes FREE 52 Page Ebook. 

You can also download a trial version of Scrivener for 30 days. You can access the trial version download here. 

There are a lot of free Scrivener templates available on the internet that you can download. Any template can easily be customized to suit your preferences.

You can purchase Scrivener here. 

Scrivener is available in Windows, Mac and iOs formats.

We have various digital products in the store that can be used with Scrivener, including:

• Reiki Practice Admin Package
• Blogging Package
• Course Planner Package

Each product is created as a template that you import into your Scrivener program. All of the organizational structure is provided for you along with prewritten content and prompts.

In a technology based era, our computer files are integral to running our business. While we may not experience data loss regularly, the impact of a loss occurring can cripple your business operations. Backing up files is like insurance – feels annoying to pay it when life is accident free, but when you need it, it can be life saving. Some data that you might lose can be reconstructed, but the time and effort it would take to recreate the important data would significantly impact your business.

As a Reiki practitioner, you should consider data protection on three different levels, including:

• General files – any general information including bookmarks, passwords, ebooks, and information that you download for your professional use
• Business files – business information including files that contain financial, administrative, and staff information
  Client files – your client information

You may also have personal files on your computer or different computers that all need to be considered in your backup strategy.

Some common files that relate to general business content that you should back up include:

• Content saved from the internet
• Ebooks
• Digital course materials
• Digital content created for your business
• Files of any product creations for your business
• Correspondence with professional contacts

Some common business administration files that you should back up include:

• Financial transactions
• Financial records and reports
• Personnel files and payroll
• Communication
• Administrative records for business operations – eg. Website information, business registration, insurance documentation, licenses, contracts etc
• Policies and procedures

This suggested strategy is based on the process to back up a single computer. Back up methods usually include one of the below methods of a mix of the below methods:

• Hard drive – saving a duplicated set of files on the same hard drive as your working computer
• External hard drive – saving files on an external hard drive
• Cloud storage – saving data over the internet to an external location outside of your home or office

It should be noted that saving a duplicate set of files on your computer is not the recommended method and should only be considered as a temporary access method while also having an external strategy in place. If your entire computer crashes you won’t be able to access your current files or your duplicate backups.

By saving your backup files to an external drive and kept inside your home or office, you can easily access your files if your computer is compromised. In the event of a theft or fire, your external hard drive may not be accessible if it perished or was stolen with your computer. To avoid this situation, it is best to store your external hard drive in a separate physical location from your computer. If your computer is at your office, store your external hard drive at home or if your computer is at home, store your external hard drive in another location.

The third option for storage is cloud storage which is kept online. Cloud storage means your data is both saved in an external physical location and is also easily accessible by you at any time as long as you have an internet connection.

Examples of cloud storage include Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Most of these services have both free and paid online plans to store your data. Some cloud services have free accounts with limitations on the amount of data you can store. Once this limitation is reached you can pay additional fees for more storage. If you prefer to only use free storage then you can only save the most important files to your cloud back up, or you can save your current backup and remove any old backups. Eventually, this will reach a limit also as you keep adding content to your backup list.

The below strategy is designed to create a process of regular backups.

STAGE ONE – ORGANIZATION

1. Delete any irrelevant files that you no longer wish to keep
2. Organize your files into folders based on a year/month structure or a category type structure.

These two steps will make future backups more manageable. Your first backup will take the longest as you organize your files and backup method. For the first backup, it’s best to set some goals in small chunks so that you are not overwhelmed with doing these mundane tasks all at once.

As you use your computer going forward, take your new organization system into account when saving and naming your files. This will help you in the long run when you want to create meaningful backups that are easy to store so you can access the files you need at any time.

STAGE TWO – PREPARATION

3. Set up your devices where you will back up your data.
4. Keep a checklist of the files and folders that you back up. Consider the timeframes of your backups also: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.
5. Add the task of backing up to your schedule. It is a good idea to plan your schedule so that you can do offline tasks while your data is in backup mode.

STAGE THREE – BACKUP

6. Back up your files according to your schedule, eg. daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.

Save your backups using a folder structure based on dates. An example might be the following folder structure: 2021>June2021 then 2021>July2021. You can use any naming convention that suits you such as 2021>0621 and 2021>0721 instead of writing out the full name of the month.

Depending on the software and the type of computer you use, you may be able to automate your backup process. This post focuses on developing a backup strategy only.

Backing up files is an important task to protect your valuable data. The backup strategy you choose should suit you and the content of your files. You may decide your content is so small that you only need to backup once a month based on how regularly your files change. Alternatively, you may access important files every day that you believe are important to back up daily also. You may also have informational files that wouldn’t concern you if they are lost. In that case, you may only need to backup those files once a year.

Your backup strategy should be relevant to your circumstances.