also, save up a bunch of Pokemon ready to evolve (such as the ever plentiful Pidgey) and do them all at once with a Lucky Egg. 500 xp per evolution turns to 1000, making leveling pretty fast. The last few days I've been saving all of my stuff until the end of the day to evolve and easily pick up 12k+ xp
it's tempting to evolve everything as soon as you can, but waiting to do batch evolutions with double xp is much more effective
Good idea. I haven't evolved many of my Pokemon's yet. Just saving the dust and candy for when I want to evolve higher level captures I'll get later. Of course, at some point you need to figure out when it makes sense to just start evolving!
But, I'll certainly use this idea when that time comes!
it's tempting to evolve everything as soon as you can, but waiting to do batch evolutions with double xp is much more effective