Comments on: Evernote + Eye-Fi = Instant Photographic Memory

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:10:49 +0000

Was there ever an answer to whether you can determine what pics go where. For instance – say I took 75 shots. 50 I want to go to iPhoto or Flikr, and the other 25 I want to send to Evernote. Possible? Easy?

By: intimateclothingHelen

intimateclothingHelen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:24:04 +0000

I agree with Greg. We need to be able to use it in Europe too!

By: r0bErT4u

r0bErT4u — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:21:27 +0000

New owner of a Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2, Eye-Fi 4GB Explore Video, and installed the free version of Evernote onto my iPhone.

If I win the giveaway, may I please have a One-Year Evernote Premium Subscription instead? You can give the Eye-Fi Card to an Eye-Fi needy person =0p…

By: Intimate Clothing

Intimate Clothing — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:30:26 +0000

With the ability to upload to my own server
this would appeal to me as well

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:21:06 +0000

i love the evernote/eye-fi linking but automatically loading all of my photos into evernote destroys all of my bandwidth in about 1 hour and i have a month to wait for more! Please enable us to select which of the photos actually get synced with evernote

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:53:08 +0000

@Bruce: “looks like no account to me”

Um, no. You don’t get it. You can only upload to your computer if you are NEAR your computer. Otherwise, you need an account, which means your pictures are going through a single third party service that can collect all your pictures under your user id.

What I want is the ability to be out and about, not anywhere near my home WiFi, and to upload over a public WiFi to my own server on the internet. Not Flickr, not Picasa. No. My own server.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:17:06 +0000

I agree with previous comments about not working outside the US and Canada. The integration of Eye-Fi is just the thing that would make Evernote a must-have, but if I can’t use it in the UK … much less appealing!

By: improve your memory

improve your memory — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:12:19 +0000

This would be perfect if it was a Bluetooth device that could connect to my mobile phone.

By: Verbal Jam

Verbal Jam — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:40:39 +0000

I live in the Netherlands. I managed to buy an Eye-Fi Home card via photojojo. It works great (after updating firmware).
Now I wanted to upgrade to photosharing. Guess what? It’s only available in US and Canada!
When do they start thinking global at Eye-Fi? This is sooo 1995!
And I cannot see the problem: I can assure you, in The Netherlands we have the same internet as in the US and Canada!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:17:21 +0000

This would be perfect if it was a Bluetooth device that could connect to my mobile phone. The mobile would be responsible for the sync with EverNote. After all, 3G is more widely coveraged than WiFi. While this sounds redundant (my mobile phone has a camera built in) my camera is a better camera than my phone.

By: Daan

Daan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:05:11 +0000

Thanks – I must be very dense. I open the eye-fi manager and there is nothing about evernote anywhere. I search under eye-fi support and there is nothing that comes up for evernote. It’s as if they don’t want you to know.

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:42:06 +0000

@Dan This is done on the Eye-Fi site. You can now select Evernote from their list of WebShare options.

By: Dan Ray

Dan Ray — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:21:57 +0000

I have evernote and the Eye-Fi card – how do I link the two – no mention anywhere? Does it have to be a premium account?

By: Helene James

Helene James — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:19:14 +0000

I have a camera and I just bought the Eye-Fi Anniversary Card. I read it is not possible to buy the card in Europe but my question is Can I use the Eye Fi card in France. I was hoping to use it to work on my blog Typepad…..and send pictures to it through Evernote. I need some clarification…

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:44:17 +0000

When a symbian version of Evernote ?

By: gil!

gil! — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:55:32 +0000

Evernote, please gimme a Blackberry app! pleaseeeeeeeeeee!!!

By: Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:18:05 +0000

This is an awesome marriage! I love EverNote and I love my Eye-fi. My iPhone also takes pictures directly into Evernote, but it’s so slooooow to upload between shots. Now I can snap pictures as fast as my camera allows and they will load automagically into Evernote. Then I can tag and post my notes to my meeting notes Evernote notbook to share with the other attendees. No hassle meeting minutes, etc.

For those who haven’t used an Eye-fi, it’s just a matter of turning on the camera when you you’re in Wi-Fi range. It uploads your photos to a folder on your computer and/or Evernote before it reaches the automatic turn off time for the camera. (I’ve extended the time before my camera shuts to allow for many pictures.)

How’s this compare with using the iPhone to take evernote pictures? I’ve been using my iPhone camera to take pictures of whiteboards, documents and cards, but the iphone camera isn’t great and taking pictures and it’s really slow to upload in Evernote. (The clarify case helps with taking pictures up close, but it’s still not nearly as good as a real camera.)

Now I get the speed and quality of a real camera with the incredible convenience and speed of eye-fi and I don’t have to wait between shots for the pictures to upload.

(Yes, Eye-Fi works with Flicr, and lots of other photo sites, but for me Evernote is exactly the right solution.)

By: Roger B

Roger B — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:34:44 +0000

I have both the Eye-Fi card and use Evernote on my iPhone. I think the combination is great and a good option. Lisa says she wants a better camera. Go buy one; there are plenty. I use Eye-Fi cards in my Canon SD100 and Digital Rebel (with CF card adapter). Works great. Transfers pics to my computer and my online website. Now that Evernote is an option, I may use that personally/professionally. There are several requests on Eye-Fi’s site about ad hoc options or personal web servers/ftp servers. They add features every couple of months. I imagine that, just like the new Evernote feature, they may be adding those features down the road. The time it saves me to auotmate some of the transferring is highly worth it to me with a child. I can take 150 photos in a session, but the transfer time from the cards to the pc, then uploading to the web, is time I can’t afford with a baby, so Eye-Fi takes care of that for me. Later, I log onto my website and just delete the bad ones or move the good ones to a public folder for friends and family. If you can’t see the value in this, then you won’t see it, so don’t buy it. It’s that simple. I would like to have more control over the dataflow, though, as I might not want my personal pics to end up in Evernote, and my professional pics not to end up on my website. But a separate Eye-Fi card may resolve this.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:39:16 +0000

@Mark:
Eye-Fi says:
“Upload to your computer or to the web.” So, looks like no account to me. Also they work with 18 photo sites (Costco to Nikon to Flickr) Interesting idea.

By: Sandr

Sandr — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:58:02 +0000

For the Dutch: I ordered a Eye-Fi card at http://photojojo.com/ , totally awesome… now looking for the Evernote function.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:57:42 +0000

The REAL problem with Eye-Fi is that they require you to get an account, rather than allowing developers and end users to set their own upload destinations. I want my photos uploaded to my own server, not to some commercial server that peeps at my photos and that can, at any time, be sold to a larger company that invades my privacy for an ad buck.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:48:36 +0000

The problem is that I “us[e] it once a month — rarely” because digital cameras still suck. Having to upload photos from my digital camera isn’t the most annoying thing about my digital camera. It’s not even in the top 10.

(If it was, I’d *use* my camera every day and only *upload* them once a month — nobody cares if I post vacation photos a month late. But I only *use* it once a month.)

While this looks pretty neat, I’d be 10x more impressed if you’d simply made a digital camera that didn’t suck.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:38:06 +0000

That’s ingenious. Now we just need the Eye-Fi cards to ad hoc mesh network and you really could have great coverage.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:03:37 +0000

Wi-Fi is good, but 3g would awesome. The Amazon Kindle uses 3g. Maybe Amazon should make an SD card.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:26 +0000

Eye-fi is just not available in Europe and their site does not ship outside USA/Canada.
Why such a restriction?