What is tantalizing about “Clip to Evernote” is the potential ability to be on any supported browser, anywhere, and clip into your Evernote account. Visiting your sister and want to clip that Google map on her machine so you can retrieve it from your cell when you’re on the road? The Evernote team could easily create a special page, imho, that could make this use case a no brainer (for example, evernote.com/clipnow would facilitate creating the bookmark on the local machine, after which the user could go back to the map page and clip away).

Evernote 2.x added a “Go to source web page” on every clip. That’s gone in Evernote 3. I finally discovered where the source URL can be seen: on the menu select View/Note List (F10). You can see it, but you can’t copy it. Aaargh! My suggestion to the Evernote team: restore the “Go to source web page” functionality via an icon at the top right of each note. There’s room, and the ’round trip’ capability would be great addition to the integration.

I have two quibbles about the Evernote Web Clipper add-on for Windows. When I select text in FF and hit the Web Clipper button, a dialog box appears in the very lower right of the screen. Quibble 1: This location is at the far end of the screen from where I just hit the Clipper button! Allow the user to relocate this dialog box and store the screen location, so it will come up in the user’s preferred location next time. Or make it a pop out of the Clipper button. Quibble #2: when I use this dialog box to create tags, the focus changes from FF to Evernote. Please bring up a Tags Assignment (or equivalent) box that does not steal the focus!

I’m a huge Evernote fan. Keep up the great work! The OneNote team must be furious. Ha!

jt

Someone already asked this question, which I also have, but there doesn’t seem to be an answer yet. Anyone?

I mean, I know the obvious technical differences, but is there a preferred method?

I am defenitely not saving any personal Information on a small companys webservers.
But thats thae base concept of this app, I guess.

I’d like to have the option to use it for the desktop only tough, without any account at evernote.

“It’s beyond my comprehension what all the complaining is about. Give me a break.”

To my way of thinking, all of the “complaining” is about making Evernote the best app it can be. Perhaps there is a more appropriate forum, like oh I don’t know… the forum http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/ The only point I was trying to make is that managing expectations is a huge concern, which I do think is relevant to this post.

Some of the issues raised by others are important. For example, Eric’s comment that content of clipped pages isn’t encrypted under premium accounts.

According to this blog post

http://blog.evernote.com/2008/06/24/evernote-public-launch/

> For $5 per month (or only $45/year, because we’re bad at math), you can upgrade to a premium account. Premium users have their upload quota raised to 500 megabytes of new notes per month and get a number of other goodies, including enhanced security through SSL for all data transmission (free users only get SSL for login),

It sounds like web clippings should be encrypted. It would seem that “all data transmission” includes web clippings, which are certainly data being transmitted.

The illusion of security is worse than no security at all.

I imagine someone carelessly clipping the contents of confidential or sensitive information based on the assumption that “all data transmission” is encrypted.

I wonder if it’s true that information clipped from SSL enabled websites is then delivered as clear text to Evernote. If so, that should be made clear.

This issue is probably something that should be taken the the forums.

Best of luck to Evernote!