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Give the Gift of Evernote

November 26, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Product updates
 
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If you’re anything like me, then using Evernote has completely changed the way you treat stuff that enters your head. The ease with which anything and everything can be captured, organized, and accessed, as opposed to thought of and immediately forgotten, is pretty liberating. Things which I used to resign myself to forgetting —wine labels, business cards, great recipes— are now snug in my external brain and always at hand. I almost feel like Evernote has given me a superpower; sure I’d be the lamest member of the Justice League, but at least I’d be good at remembering all the clues.

The Evernote Gift Subscription

Now, we’re letting you give Evernote to someone that could use that type of brain upgrade. Introducing the Evernote Premium 1-Year Gift Subscription. It’s a great gift for writers, designers, students, GTDers, lawyers, and just about anyone everyone else on your list.

What they get

For $45, they get a full year of Evernote Premium service, which comes with tons of goodies, like huge monthly uploads, front of the line image recognition, beefier security, and exciting soon-to-be-released premium only features. After the first year is up, you’ll have the option to re-subscribe the recipients or have them pick up the premium charges themselves, or they can choose to continue using the free version of Evernote with all of their previous memories intact.

The best part: it takes only a few seconds to send your gift and you’ll both feel super for a year!

That’s right we did say new premium features. They’re coming soon and they’re going to be great.

 
 

The Shiny and New Evernote for Windows Mobile

November 24, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Product updates
 
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Today, we unveiled the new Evernote for Windows Mobile (version 3.0.0.172). We’ve added new features, new views, and more options, all designed to make Evernote for Windows Mobile faster and easier to use.

For those unfamiliar with Evernote for Windows Mobile, this version lets you create text, ink, snapshot, and audio notes, as well as attach supported files, such as PDFs. It also allows you to quickly and easily browse and search through all the notes in your Evernote account.

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Get Evernote for Windows Mobile now (CAB | EXE)

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Evernote for Windows Mobile is now a full client, which means that the browser no longer launches when searching, viewing, or editing notes. Everything now happens right inside the application, making the user experience significantly snappier.

Views, views, and more views

When browsing your notes and search results, you now have three view options: Thumbnails, Details, and List. Thumbnail view shows a small thumbnail of the note alongside the title and tags (see image above); Details shows the title, tags, and creation date; and List shows only shows the title.

You can now tailor your view to match the speed of your network connection. Speedy connections can go with Thumbnails, while slower connections can choose Details or (the lightening fast) List view. It’s up to you.

And more…

In addition, we made accessing Saved Searches much easier, and we simplified the interface to make it more user friendly. You can also choose whether you want Evernote to upload new notes over a cellular connection, or only via WiFi –great for those watching their cellular bandwidth usage. All that, on top of tons of fixes, tweaks, and enhancements.

Do I have a Windows Mobile phone?

We’ve noticed that a lot of people have Windows Mobile phones, but don’t know it. Visit the Microsoft Windows Mobile site to find out.

Get Evernote for Windows Mobile now (CAB | EXE)

 
 

Nine months and 500,000 users later

November 21, 2008 | Posted by Phil Libin in Product updates
 
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It’s been exactly nine months since we launched and we’re happy to announce that over half a million people are now Evernote users! In the time that it takes mother nature to make just one biological brain, we’ve cranked out 500,000 shiny metal ones. Technology marches forward!

Some other Evernote fun-facts nine months after launch:

  • Number of Evernote application clients: 7
  • Number of production servers: 22
  • Number of notes: 14 million
  • Caffeine consumed by Evernote employes to build all this: 9,720,000 milligrams

More notes than caffeine milligrams? Who would’ve thunk it.

Thanks to everyone who’s helped us make Evernote a better product! We’re not slowing down anytime soon.

 
 

Vote for Evernote in Mashable’s Open Web Awards

November 19, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Product updates
 
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Evernote has made it into the semi-finals of this year’s Mashable Open Web Awards! Your vote can help advance us into the finals, where, we assume, we’ll take on Johnny.

To vote, complete the form below or go here.

You’ll receive an email from Mashable. Be sure to click the link in the email to confirm your vote. You can vote once a day per email address.

Thanks for your support.

 
 

Snap Razor-Sharp Business Cards with Evernote and Clarifi

November 18, 2008 | Posted by Phil Libin in Tips and Stories
 
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I love using Evernote to remember business cards.

Before starting with Evernote, I don’t think I’d successfully used a business card. I mean, I’d never actually found someone’s contact information by digging a business card from the alpine masses of indiscriminate paper which accumulate in and around my various desks, backpacks and pockets. Not any more; with Evernote, I immediately snap any business card that I want to remember with the closest camera at hand (usually my phone or laptop webcam), and rest easy knowing that I’ll always be able to find it instantly from any phone or computer.

[Clarifi demo video]

One big nuisance: the camera on the iPhone, my current cellphone of choice, is not very good at taking pictures of close-up objects. To use the iPhone for business cards, you have to get pretty proficient at holding the card very steady and at arm’s length, and even then the results are sometimes disappointing.

Griffin has completely solved this problem with their new Clarifi case for the iPhone 3G. In a three word review: it’s amazingly great.

The Clarifi fits snugly over your iPhone and comes with a little sliding macro lens letting you take clear close-up shot of business cards, receipts and anything else you can think of (I can only think of business cards and receipts). Here’s an example before and after photo of a hand-held business card:

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I’ve been using the Clarifi case for a couple of weeks now and the only time I temporarily took my iPhone out of it was to film the demo movie at the top of this post.

The case is $35 direct from Griffin. If you buy it from the links on this page, Evernote gets a small affiliate commission, so please consider buying one for everyone in your family or town.

 
 

Evernote Web: Add Context to Your Web Clips and More

November 14, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Product updates
 
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You’re scouring the web in search of inspiration for your next blog post, article, or term paper, when you come across a gold mine, a page that sends your mind racing with possibilities. As a good Evernote user, you immediately clip it to Evernote, so you won’t forget it. We just added a feature to the bookmarklet and Firefox extension, which ensures that your future self remembers why you clipped that page in the first page: adding a comment. Now, you can add a short comment as part of the clipping process. The comment will appear in the note, just above the clip.

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Get the bookmarklet or Firefox extension here. You do not need to re-install anything if already have it.

Improved mobile web experience

Evernote Mobile Web, our mobile optimized version for web-enabled devices, gets a nice UI update this week. When creating and editing notes, the fields now extend to match the phone’s screen dimensions. No more small text boxes on your big screens. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to bookmark www.evernote.com/m on your mobile device.

 
 

Evernote for Mac Gets Improved Text Editing and More

November 13, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Product updates
 
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We just released an update to Evernote for Mac, version 1.1.6. In addition to tons of fixes and enhancements, here are some highlights.

Download Evernote for Mac 1.1.6 now »
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Bullets and Numbers and Tables, Oh My!

You can now create bulleted and numbered lists, tables, and horizontal rules within your notes using the spiffy new note toolbar. We’ve made a bunch of smaller tweaks and enhancements that are less noticeable, but will make typing notes a lot better.

Adding and Removing Links

Ever wanted to type a link into a note, or, better yet, remove one that was already in there? Well now you can. Just CMD+click, select Link from the menu, and choose Add. To remove a link, hover over the link, CMD+click, select Link from the menu, and choose Remove.

Invisible Improvements

This is one of our releases aimed at improving many aspects of Evernote that you may not see. Trust us, these changes will make your overall experience with Evernote much more positive.

 
 

How to: Scan to Evernote (on a Mac)

November 12, 2008 | Posted by Alex Pachikov in Tips and Stories
 
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I am constantly trying to keep my desk clear of miscellaneous scraps of paper. Anything ranging from receipts to business cards to post-its that manage to accumulate in piles around my keyboard or in the pockets of my jacket and backpack. As these piles grow larger, more unmanageable, and completely unsearchable, I decided to find an effective way to dump everything into Evernote.

On my desk, behind a pile of notes, sits a scanner. After a bit of fiddling, I think I found a pretty nice way to scan directly into Evernote that will work for a majority of scanners. I am currently using a Mac, but there are similar methods that could be used on Windows as well.

The setup is quite simple:

  1. Start ‘Image Capture’ – it is a free application that comes with OS X (/Applications/Image Capture)
  2. If your scanner is supported (and turned on) you will see a window similar to the one in the screenshot below
  3. Select the area you want to scan by dragging a rectangle around the preview of the scan
  4. Set the quality of the scan to either B/W or Color Photo (depending on what you are scanning)
  5. Give your scan a title
  6. Choose PNG, JPEG as the format. If you would rather scan to PDF, keep in mind that images in PDFs will not be recognized by our image recognition
  7. Select ‘Evernote’ as the Automatic Task – this is the key step in this process
  8. And click ‘Scan’ – that’s all

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For the subsequent scans, all you have to do is adjust the selected area and enter a different title. All the other settings will be remembered as defaults.

Now, everything you scan will go directly to Evernote with the title you assign. And, all your notes will be searchable thanks to Evernote’s image recognition.

I hope this process helps others clear their desks.

 
 

Evernote Integration Spotlight: Tarpipe

November 10, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Friends and Partners, Video
 
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We recently launched the Evernote API, which allows third party developers to integrate Evernote functionality into their applications and services. In this series, we will highlight some of the most exciting integrations.

What’s Tarpipe

Tarpipe simplifies the process of adding, sharing, and moving content among the web services you use, by allowing you to define a repeatable, automatic workflow. The Tarpipe/Evernote integration allows you to add content into your Evernote account, as well as automatically extract content, such as recognition data and URLs to public notes, which can then be shared with other supported services.

Example workflow: Searchable Twitter archive in Evernote

For example, you can create a workflow, in which an email subject becomes a Twitter message, that is then automatically sent into Evernote to create an archive of your tweets. Here’s a screenshot of what that workflow looks like in Tarpipe.

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Getting started

Using Tarpipe is relatively simple, and surprisingly fun.

  1. Create an account, then start a new a workflow.
  2. Decide how content will enter the workflow, either via email or a Mac desktop app called Dropipe. If you will be emailing, select “Mail drop box” from the receptor drop down and choose MailDecoder from the Connector list. If you will be using the Dropipe app, select REST API from the receptor drop down and choose RestDecoder from the Connector list.
  3. Select all the web services that you want your content to go to, and connect them to one another however you like. When you’re finished, hit Save.
  4. Now, email content to the generated email address, or use Dropipe.

The video below, narrated by Tarpipe’s Bruno Pedro, shows the creation and execution of a workflow that starts with Bruno dropping a screenshot onto the desktop application, and ends with the content in Evernote; Flickr, with tags populated with Evernote’s recognition data; and Twitter, with a link back to Flickr. To make all that happen, all Bruno did was drop an image onto the Dropipe app.


Use case: automatically tag a screenshot using Evernote.

Why this is cool

Tarpipe has created a very user friendly way to interact with Evernote, and other web services, on a level that’s usually reserved for programmers. For the less technical among us, like myself, it feels somewhat empowering to customize how data is published across the web. As a bonus, it adds new ways to add and share Evernote content. We like that.

The Evernote API

Learn more about the Evernote API on our developer page, and join over a hundred developers working with the Evernote API to create new and exciting integrations.

 
 

Evernote Integration Spotlight: Pelotonics

November 05, 2008 | Posted by Andrew Sinkov in Friends and Partners, Tips and Stories, Video
 
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We recently launched the Evernote API, which allows third party developers to integrate Evernote functionality into their applications and services. In this series, we will highlight some of the most exciting integrations.

Pelotonics, in their own words

Pelotonics unifies your team online to get things done. Organize your projects, collaborate with your group, and succeed in meeting your goals.

Pelotonics + Evernote API

Pelotonics is a project management and collaboration service, which allows organizations to easily manage multiple projects and tasks among groups of users. What Pelotonics needed was a powerful information capture tool. They found that in Evernote, thanks to the Evernote API.

Here’s a video conversation between Phil Libin (our CEO) and Troy Malone of Pelotonics.


Troy Malone and Phil Libin discuss the Integration.

Why this is cool

If you’re like us, then you spend a lot of time thinking about work (in a good way). It often feels like inspiration has a tendency to strike at random times, and the key is to capture it and make it actionable. The combination of Evernote’s multiplatform data capture, and Pelotonics’ project management, make going from inspiration to action a snap.

Thanks to the integration, users can now link Pelotonics to Evernote and easily bring notes into their Pelotonics account. Once a note is in Pelotonics, it can be assigned to a user or project, set as a task, attached to a message, or saved as a file. Instructions on linking the accounts are available on the Pelotonics FAQ page.

Since this is a server-side integration, user can take full advantage of all the functionality Evernote offers. Create a note using the desktop, web, or mobile versions of Evernote, sync, and have it instantly appear in Pelotonics. The video below shows Troy using the integration.


Take action on your Evernote voice notes!

Check out more video use case examples from Pelotonics.

50% OFF for Evernote users

Pelotonics is graciously offering Evernote users a 50% discount off of the first month of paid Pelotonics service. Get it while you can.

The Evernote API

Learn more about the Evernote API on our developer page, and join over a hundred developers working with the Evernote API to create new and exciting integrations.