Did you know that Evernote can recognize your handwriting and make it searchable? It’s true. Today, we’ve got a great Partner Month way for you to get your handwriting into Evernote: the Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet. (Pssst. There’s a great giveaway at the bottom of the post.)
Wacom’s Bamboo Pen tablets make digital writing a completely natural and effortless process. The best part is that the tablet is a perfect complement to Evernote. From digital ink notes to annotated images, Evernote will make it all searchable and accessible from any computer or device you use.
How to use a Wacom tablet with Evernote
Creating ink notes
Evernote for Windows lets you create ink notes right inside Evernote. Click on the Ink Note option, then start scribbling with your Wacom tablet. Once you’re done, that Ink Note will sync to all other versions of Evernote that you use. On Mac, you can only view Ink Notes. We’re working through our ink-on-Mac strategy, so stay tuned.
Annotating images
On bother Windows and Mac, use the Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet to annotate images in your favorite image editor, then bring those annotated images into Evernote. We’ll process them and make the handwriting searchable. If you already have an image in Evernote, right click and open it with your image editor. When you’re done annotating, hit save, and the image will automatically update in Evernote thanks to our Live Update feature.
Twitter giveaway time! (CLOSED)
UPDATE: This giveaway is closed. Check out our winner video.
The great folks at Wacom are generously offering three (3) Wacom Bamboo Pen tablets. Here’s how to enter:
That’s all. We will check to make sure that you have followed both companies. The winner will be randomly selected on Friday, February 19th and contacted via Direct Message on Twitter. All entries must be received by 8:59am PT on February 19th. This giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada (we promise to have a global giveaway soon).
62 Comments
kalyan
is it available in india?
Anupam
yes… visit neoteric site
erymanthe
i’m sorry to say that but when i create a handwrited note, it’s not searchable in evernote, can you explain me why?
When anotate an existing image and i save it under my prefered software, evernote doesn’t update it.
i’m under windows 7, latest evernote.
thanks for answering me. it makes me crazy
Federico
Any news about ink notes on Mac?
I just bought a Wacom tablet, eager to use it with my favorite notes app!
RhysD
I use Evernote for keeping tracking of my notes, thoughts, ideas on my Android phone and love it. Having it sync to my Windows PC has been great too and being a Wacom tablet user I was thrilled about this compatibility. However, I would love to be able to jot ideas while on my android smartphone using my finger or one of the new “Bamboo stylus for iPad” pens rather than using the smartphone thumb keyboards.
Any idea when ink notes will be available on the evernote for phones android app?
By the way to those of use that are finding the ink notes are not searchable. Try syncing after making your ink note and then searching for it. That was how I was able to get these searchable. The video describes this but my test scenario skipped the syncing step.
Marc
When native ink notes for mac?
Eric Delalonde
Wacom Intuos 4s + Evernote ?
Wacom Intuos 4s + Slitch ?
Bonjour from France!
Any tricks about how to benefit from both Intuos 4s Wacom tablet and Evernote (on one side), Slitch (on another side). Any synergy effect to chase for? Any scenarios for using all this in various pro situations?
thanks
Spenser
Hey guys. I’m sorry to say this but I don’t think Ink support is ever really coming to Mac. I’ve been using Evernote for 2 1/2 years with a Bamboo Pen and Touch and this feature has still not been implemented. There are release notes from as early as 2009 saying that this feature is coming soon :-/
Blurgh
Have to agree with Spenser. I dug out my Bamboo thinking I might use it for school notes, but I see sketching added in Android versions of Evernote but still not on the Mac side of things. Sad.