I love Evernote’s Web Clipper. There, I’ve said it. In fact, web clipping represents about 75% of my Evernote use. I clip articles, recipes, music reviews, stuff I want, places to eat, and gift ideas. In other words, tons and tons of clips. That’s why today’s announcement makes me a little giddy: the Web Clipper just got a jillion times better.
Besides looking snazzier, we’ve added a new feature called Quicknote, which lets you create a quick text note right from the browser without launching Evernote.
How the new clipper works
- Clipping: Highlight a portion of the page, then click the Web Clipper. Evernote will clip any text, links, and image into your account complete with the source URL. If you want to clip the entire page, select all (CTRL+A, CMD+A) then click.
- Quicknote: If you click WITHOUT selecting anything, the Quicknote appears, letting you to create a new text note right inside the Web Clipper popup. You can even grab the URL of the page you’re viewing for future reference.
Being able to clip what I need and create notes without switching to Evernote is a huge time saver, especially for those of us who spend a large portion of their day in the browser. Sweet!
Get it
The Web Clipper bookmarklet works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. There is also a Firefox extension. Get the Web Clipper on the Evernote downloads page.
Please note: If you already have the FF extension installed, you will need to restart your browser to get the updated extension. Or, go to the Mozilla site to download the latest version.
79 Comments
Bobrocky
The new clipper works on my Mac G5 with Firefox just fine. But on my MacBookPro with the same OS and version of Firefox, I just get a blank box with the little elephant icon. No clipping at all. I’ve installed it, uninstalled it and reinstalled it many times and nothing helps.
ryanpmack
Forgot to mention that your support page for clipping still has the old instructions, so the only way for users to find out about the new way the clipper functions is by hopefully finding this blog post.
Although I’m rooting for changing the behavior back to the old way, or giving users the choice, but at the very least having the documentation describe the new behavior would at least let them know what’s going on… When they click their bookmarklet and suddenly can only clip the URL by default without highlighting text.
TAS
I LOVE the functionality. I think some people are misinterpreting the post. Step away from the ledge…
1. I use Firefox on a PC and have the 3.0.0.128 Evernote Web Clipper installed. The description clearly says “to add a selection or an entire page to Evernote” and that is exactly what it does. I can clip an entire page as many of you do and have described.
2. I did as the video instructed and copied the link to my bookmarks toolbar. After clicking on it brings up the dialog box to tag, grab the url, enter notes, etc…
I use BOTH and love it. I like the ability to capture address alone and tag it. By using the bookmark tool I can also tag a clip instead of going into the client to do it – saves me a step.
It is not an all or nothing proposition with this, the Firefox add-on and the bookmark tool are different things. I think the poster implied that they are the same, but they are not. Thank you Evernote!
TAS
Furthermore – this makes tagging websites much simpler for me. I have have never gotten that in to del.icio.us but always wanted the feature easily tag bookmarks. This looks like the perfect tool to do that.
luckman212
In regards to Randall Stevens’ (and others) comment above, I am re-iterating the question:
Can we get an official response from the Evernote staff to all of the feedback from the users here. It appears that the vast majority prefer the ‘old’ functionality.
Daniel Tan
Yeap! I’ll jump on the bandwagon too!
Selection should = QuickNote!
No Selection should = Complete WebPage Clipping
As it was before please; that was the best feature of EverNote IMHO.
Here is my vote to resurrect that FEATURE!
Dan
Matt Duda
Yes, please let’s get an official response from Evernote. Also, can we hope for consistency in the clipper behavior? For some page, the clipper will capture the entire page as a default behavior, for others, I need to CTRL-A. The only thing more frustrating than changing the behavior of an application is to do so (a) without warning and (b) inconsistently. I do love Evernote and all the hard work the team has put into it; it’s just that the communication could be better. Thank you!!!
Ben
Great! Love the new look and feel.
Ryan
Definitely agree: this is a step backwards. Also, in Quick Note I CANNOT see the buttons! I set my system to use a larger font size (125% normal size, 120 DPI) and now can’t see the Done/Cancel buttons in the clipper popup!
It needs to be designed to work with verious display settings!
Norris
Is it my imagination or a bug?
After the first use of FF web clipper, I can no longer copy selected text – copy is now grayed out.
I would like to be able to still copy selected FF text to other applications.
This is on MS Win XP and FF 3.0.7
prof
Please, please go back to the old version. I switched to Evernote from another application because of the one-click-save-webpage functionality. This has me almost swearing never to use a web-based program. What’s the point if the features you depend on can be changed at whim? At least give us an option.
I also concur with Ryan. The clipper fonts and the window are now misaligned.
Changing the most basic functionality like that creates an insecure user base who will jump at the next thing… Please don’t become that.
Bruce
I’m a network administrator for a software company and I love Evernote and look forward to each new release, but I spent a good 15 minutes “troubleshooting” my empty web clips before I found this page and discovered that marketing has invaded the engineering department. This upgrade is called “The Amazing New and Improved Web Clipper”? That’s preposterous (overuse has weakened this term – it means “absurdly ludicrous”).
BTW, selecting the whole page and then clipping produces a poorly rendered shadow of the original web page. I want my old and busted feature-deficient Evernote clipper back!
When something this stupid happens, usually the lawyers are involved. Is that what happened? If so, let us know, then at least we’d know why the eviscerated Evernote clipper is wearing a marketing hand-spun silk suit.
dan
I am very upset. Is there any way to switch back? I want to add the clips when I want, and edit later when I have time. I want to use this tool as it was, free and runing locally.
If this is the way for evernote, I would use a simplest software, but reliable and honest.
Chris
I just want to add a vote for having the Web Clipper clip an entire web page by default. Most of the time I want to either clip full pages or, less often, else just a selection of them.
Couldn’t the Quicknote functionality be achieved in some other way? For example, by dragging and dropping the URL from the address bar onto the Evernote window.
fer
So what’s the difference between the little elephant icon buttonn on the top of the browser and the clipper? Is the elephant button not needed anymore?
max
HI
I find this a useful article. Thanks for sharing
Good Luck
Max
BrianJ
Just added this app. Great idea, Thanks.
Matt Coyne
Is there a link you can send me to learn how to save photos and text from Safari on my iphone?
Also do you have an easy way to send photos from iphoto to Evernote?
THanks so much! I love your product and am going to go premium if I figure an easy way for my wife to do this.
Si Hill
any idea how to make the web site appear as a web site in evernote? instead of just plain text? or is that just not possible?
dann
I found Evernote as I was looking for alternatives to Google Notebook. It is quite useful and the web clipper make it so easy to clip parts of a page. It can help you especially if you need to compare different houses on a longer period of time.
C Chang
I can only find keyboard short cuts, I cannot find the icon of Evernote clipper on the IE tool bar. (The IE tool menu does show it is an add-on). Question, where to find the little elepahant in my IE tool bar?
Ma
Like others here I’m very unhappy. I recently became a premium member because of the clipper feature. Now it doesn’t work the way I need to work for my business.
Will you refund?
Andrew Sinkov
Sorry to hear that the Web Clipper isn’t working as you’d like. The clipper functions are identical for free and premium users. Please contact our support team if you would like to request a refund: http://s.evernote.com/support
sophie
Please guys get back to the older clipper, i used to clip images on one note and they’d all form a resized horizontal set of pictures, not everything i clip comes in a seperate note, PLEASE GET THE OLD CLIPPER BACK!
Rick
Love the new clipper with one exception. It doesn’t work on pdf’s. When I try to use it to copy a pdf in my browser the clipper takes me to Evernote on the web. The little dialogue box doesn’t pop up. Bug?
Craig Ostrander
I agree Rick. I’d like to be able to clip a pdf into evernote and this seems impossible now so I hope they fix it soon.