Comments on: Welcome You Fine Google Notebook Users

By: mike

mike — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:06:10 +0000

Sadly, the Google export (atom) feature doesn’t work. HELP.

By: james

james — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:47:10 +0000

This is great but I have 70 notebooks! It’s going to be a long afternoon ..

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:15:58 +0000

@Calipari Great timing. We just released sharing features today. Read about it.

By: Calipari

Calipari — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:42:03 +0000

Can we share notes with others?
Without the ’sharing’ feature, Evernote is not in real network.
Single person’s evernote resource is always limited.

By: capriliz

capriliz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:46:39 +0000

I just heard about Evernote and am downloading it now. So glad to hear that I can import my google bookmarks!

Thanks!

By: doomble

doomble — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:50:10 +0000

goog concept for notebook users

By: laptopper2009

laptopper2009 — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:19:32 +0000

Google Notebook never seemed to be free of bugs. My laptops never seemed to connect evn using my best pc laptop

By: harijay

harijay — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:48:53 +0000

I am having a lot of font issues , that I have not been able to “google” and find an answer. A lot of my text is replaced by ? symbols. Any ideas on how to fix that

By: Niel

Niel — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:18:04 +0000

@Todd and Tauren

In order to (pretty much) just clip a URL, just select a single letter on the page of which you want to keep the URL before clipping.

As this does leave you with a random letter in your note, it is probably more meaningful to select some descriptive text from the page.

By: matthieu

matthieu — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:28:34 +0000

thank you, but one thing missing in evernote : to share note with another evernote user that can modify the note too… in google notebook we had that, very powerfull…

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:30:46 +0000

There’s just one big problem with the ATOM export function – it decreases the pictures drastically. Which means that pictures that need to be big, like diagrams, becomes useless!

Is there or will there be a way to get around this big issue?

Thanks!

By: apa

apa — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:39:45 +0000

Thank you for the import feature!! I found out yesterday that Google is stopping their notebook development but here I found instantly a replacement! Great

By: Maroš Žofčin

Maroš Žofčin — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:06:10 +0000

I have the same problem with non ASCII characters.

By: Cooluck

Cooluck — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:55:22 +0000

Has the same problem as described here http://blog.evernote.com/2009/01/22/google-notebook-import-2/#comment-13449 and here http://blog.evernote.com/2009/01/22/google-notebook-import-2/#comment-13529 but with russian characters. Is there any solution?

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:26:09 +0000

Any chance of you guys making an iGoogle page widget for Evwernote? I find it really7 handy when I’m at computers where I can’t install the Evernote app.

By: bergh

bergh — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:11 +0000

Ok, since I read this, google has been unable to xport my notes to atom. I get the same error reported above.

Has anybody solved this?

By: lalawow

lalawow — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:40:19 +0000

google notebook’s atom export doesn’t work well when it involves Chinese characters. I hope evernote can work out some way to import GN’s html export result. Thanks!

By: ptmcclellan

ptmcclellan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:42:52 +0000

The importer worked very well indeed with the structure and content, but all my foreign language characters with diacritics were turned into ?’s. Hopefully the actual code of the character came along with the import so that Evernote can display this later?

By: keyles

keyles — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:36:13 +0000

The multiple note export from Google Notebook worked great. Thanks to thegirlinthecafe!!

By: Tauren

Tauren — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:32:06 +0000

I agree with many of the other comments — there are several EN issues that make me reluctant to switch. I’m not saying I don’t want to switch, as I really, really WANT evernote to be the tool I use. With just a few enhancements, it could meet my needs.

The feature I use most with GN is the saving of just a URL, not the content on the page. When I bookmark a page in this way, I typically specify the notebook it should go in and add a short comment. I like how GN remembers the last notebook I used and makes it the default.

Within a GN, I combine similar items into sections. I’m not sure if EN would support this, since I don’t think it has heirarchical tagging. And I don’t want to have too many tags to have to pick from.

I’m using Linux primarily. It really sucks that there is no EN support for Linux. I can understand the reasoning (not as big a user base), but it does force me to use the web client. And the web client is not as fast or fluid as the GN interface is. Which makes switching not a very appealing idea.

The GN firefox plugin is great. I’d like to see an EN plugin that has similar performance and capabilities.

Thanks for all the good work! And congrats on the funding and award!

Tauren

By: DebInDenver

DebInDenver — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:27:55 +0000

You guys rock! I loved Google Notebook, but for some reason it wasn’t working with updated versions of Firefox and Flock. So I am very happy to be able to import that info!

By: Travis Illig

Travis Illig — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:27:09 +0000

I was wrong – the bulleted list issue isn’t a Google Notebook import problem, it’s a bug in Evernote. You can’t have multiple levels of bullet list. ARGH.

By: Travis Illig

Travis Illig — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:22:53 +0000

There are a couple of bugs I’ve found with the importer.

1) If any of your text has angle brackets (like if you have a notebook with HTML or XML snippets), these come through as ACTUAL HTML or XML in the note… meaning they’re basically lost. You have to manually copy/paste the text from Google Notebook to get that in.

2) If you have nested bullet lists (a bullet list with more than one level) everything gets imported at one level so you have to go back to your Google Notebook and update your Evernote notebook based on what levels the bullets should be.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:20:42 +0000

I’m another Google Notebook user, and I want to switch to Evernote. I signed up for an acccount and tried it out, but there are a few things I need to see improved before I can fully switch.

One issue I have is that the Firefox extension is extremely sluggish. Also, it doesn’t offer any way of viewing the contents of your notebooks. A couple of other people mentioned these same issues in their comments.

Another consideration is that I often use Google Notebook to just clip URL’s. Many times, I don’t need to save the contents of the entire web page. In Google Notebook, this can be done in two clicks and is FAST. However, there appears to be no way of doing this in Evernote. So instead, I’m stuck viewing a stored version of the page with garbled formatting.

Hopefully, you folks will consider addressing some of these issues in future updates. Thanks!

By: SNSOK

SNSOK — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:19:15 +0000

I am able to download my google notebook as a DOC but if I select atom, I get an error telling me my notebook is deleted or unavailable. Has Google taken down the Atom option?