We’re extremely pleased to announce the addition of the Fuel Brand Notebooks to the Evernote Trunk as part of our Creative Series. The Fuel family of websites are the perfect resource for creative people of all types. From writers to photographers to designers, Fuel’s editors have been providing readers with great ideas and insights to help make the most of their inspirations. Now that they are in the trunk these excellent creative resources are available to easily add to your external brain, Evernote.
The Fuel notebooks are a great starting point for your inspiration. Collect your favorite hints, tips and inspiration from your life and around the web to keep the ball rolling and Fuel your creative passions. They make a great addition for anyone looking to kickstart their creativity.
The Notebooks
Fuel Your Creativity
Designers make it look so easy. What may seem like a natural gift for combining color and style to create something that is functional and visually appealing, is actually a keen understanding of certain techniques and principles. The Fuel Your Creativity notebook will show you how to use complementary colors, how to consider layout, and how to think about your design projects.
The Lost Principles of Design
The Definitive Color Wheel
The Steps of Creative Communication
Fuel Your Photography
What does it take to get the perfect photo? This notebook is full of ideas to help you get the most out of your photography. The Fuel editors show you how to set a scene, how to use lighting to your advantage and teach the techniques behind HDR photographs.
Using Natural Light
Don’t Leave Home Without It (your camera)
Creating Drama With a Turn of The Dial
Creating a B&W HDR Photograph
Creating a Remote Studio
Fuel your Writing
Getting started on a writing project can be tough. There are numerous questions that need to be addressed before diving in. How to stay organized? How to use Evernote to get the best writing results? What are the recommended resources? How to get put your best foot forward during the submission process. These are the important questions answered in the Fuel Your Writing notebook.
Useful Writing Websites, Submitting Your Writing
Practical Tools For Writers
Organize Your Writing Using Evernote
How to add the notebooks to your account
Adding a notebook take a few simple steps. Go to the Evernote Trunk, which is available on the web, Evernote on your desktop, or Evernote on your iPad. Once there, click on the Notebooks menu item. Click on Fuel and select the notebook to want to add. Then click the Add to Evernote button. Evernote will automatically sync and your new notes will appear.
Be part of the Evernote Trunk
If you are interested in contributing a notebooks to the Evernote Trunk, contact us here.
Business Card Manager by Sourcenext
• Platform: iPhone
• Price: Free (Lite version), $2.99
• Category: Business card managers
When someone hands you a business card, they’re basically giving you a homework assignment that involves scanning, filing and organizing. There should be a better way. Enter Business Card Manager for iPhone, a simple (and green) solution for your business card woes.
The App
Business Card Manager, available in the Evernote Trunk, lets you take pictures of business cards and use the images as a reference when filling out contact information fields. Once filled out, that contact information can be sent into the iPhone Address Book.
“In the end, it’s all about fusing inspiration and knowledge with practical use”
During Annching Wang’s fourth year of fashion design school at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, British Columbia, she enrolled in a fashion trend forecasting class. She enjoyed the course, but was annoyed that all the classwork was only accessible from a specific university lab computer. In this class, she was working with large comprehensive reports that consisted of images, texts and other content. Annching needed a way to access her project on her own time, instead of being tied to the computer lab.
Enter Evernote
After a bit of research, Annching discovered, and quickly became obsessed with, Evernote. It allowed her to collect everything she needed for her projects into a single, always accessible place. Also, the process was significantly faster, more convenient and more visual—ideal for a creative individual. Evernote ended up simplifying the entire workflow. Read entire post
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Evernote reached another important milestone today, and we did it in record time: four million users! As always, I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who found us and stuck with us over the last 2+ years. We’re working hard to make sure Evernote is constantly improving and your feedback and support are crucial. Of course, another big thanks goes to everyone on the Evernote team who’s put in insane work hours to make it all happen. This is getting to be a cliche, but let’s keep the tradition going: You guys just made something that over four million people have used. How cool is that?
Wait till you see what we have in store before we hit the next million!
Cramer Gallimore is a professional photographer based near Raleigh North Carolina where he owns and operates the Cramer Gallimore Photography Studio. Cramer has more than twenty years experience as a professional photographer, with an emphasis on location work—events, industrial and technical environments—for clients worldwide.
7 Ways a professional photographer uses Evernote
Evernote is a great tool to keep all the aspects of my photography business running smoothly. I put it to use for my day-to-day business operations, and to keep me organized when I’m out and about on-location for shoots. Having Evernote synced across my desktop, laptop, iPad, and iPhone keeps everything I need in order. Read entire post
Whiteboard sessions are meant to be collaborative, so it feels counterproductive when the team spends as much time feverishly recreating the whiteboard sketches in their notebooks as participating in discussions. Evernote is here to help. We caught up with Michael Galpert, founder of the amazing Aviary.com, (think Adobe Creative Suite, but entirely online and free) who explained how his company uses Evernote to keep ideas from disappearing.
What they do
The Aviary team uses Evernote as a key part of their whiteboard/brainstorming process. They sketch everything out, then take a snapshot with Evernote. As Michael points out, there was always a fear that important ideas might get erased and lost, but now with Evernote they have an easy way to capture it all forever.
As an added bonus, Evernote’s image recognition technology processes all of those snapshots and makes the handwritten text searchable, so it’s easy to find all of those great ideas.
It has been quite a mobile-filled week here at Evernote. Two days ago, Evernote for iPhone and iPad was updated. Yesterday, Evernote for Android got some major improvements. Today, it’s Evernote for BlackBerry’s turn.
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Native note browsing and viewing
As any BlackBerry-toting Evernoter knows, the experience of viewing notes has been less than satisfying. That all changes today. You’ll never jump to our mobile web interface again. Evernote for BlackBerry now has a native note browser, which means better layout, easier navigation and faster loading. Read entire post
If you are a proud owner of an Android phone, then you may have felt a certain lack of love and attention from us recently. Here’s some news that will make you happy. We’ve significantly ramped up our Android development by more than doubling the size of our Android team. We are on track to release a bunch of great new features and enhancements, starting with today’s update. To quote our VP of Engineering, “My Android is now cooler than your iPhone.” We’ll see about that.
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Evernote Widget
In this update, we’re releasing our first major Android-only feature: the Evernote Widget. This super useful home screen widget allows you to quickly jump right into your desired Evernote action. You can pop into a search or into a new text, snapshot or audio note. Activating the widget is simple. Press and hold your finger on your phone’s home screen. Select ‘widget’ for the menu that appears, then choose Evernote. Next, drag the widget to any screen you like. You’re done. Read entire post
An update to Evernote for iPhone and iPad (v 3.3.8) went live in the App Store earlier today. Here are some of the highlights:
Improved Premium offline notebooks
Premium users get two nice enhancements to offline notebooks. There’s an improved interface, with much clearer information about exactly when things are synchronizing and which notebooks are stored offline. Read entire post