Skitch is our awesome app that helps you draw attention to anything and share it with a colleague or a friend. For those that haven’t tried Skitch yet, we’re going to give you an introduction to using it on your Mac and Android device. We’ll also give you some ideas and tips for getting more out of Skitch and Evernote, together.
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A simpler way to get your point across
We fell in love with Skitch because it’s the easiest way to communicate everything from a simple action to a complex idea using quick annotations, screenshots and basic shapes. The best part is that using Skitch is really fun and in the process you’re getting your point across with fewer words, emails and meetings.
Skitch on your Mac
Draw Attention: Say you’re working on a new website with your team. Your designer sent you a mockup and you have some comments and suggestions. With Skitch, you can circle the part that needs to be changed and point an arrow to the area where you’d like the element moved. Add some instructional text before dragging the file into an email or into a shared notebook in Evernote. No need for a bunch of back and forth, figuring out how to save your file or hold painful conference calls where you’re all staring at four different screenshots and trying to figure out what’s going on where. Same applies for that mailbox you’re building.
Teach someone something: Explaining a new concept to someone takes a lot longer than just showing them. In the past, there was the issue of figuring out how to actually demonstrate it, how to save it, send it, and then wait for the other person to go through the same steps. With Skitch, you can walk someone through a process — a home repair, table arrangement at a wedding, or a knitting join — in the most direct way possible. For example, to show someone how to arrange a table setting, take a photo of it and annotate with text (“fork goes on the left, knife on the right’”). Keep your tutorials handy by also saving them into your Evernote account.
Key Features, at a Glance
- Screenshot anything: Click the Snap button to capture a shot of a document, a webpage, something that inspires you, or just about anything else.
- Drag files into other apps: Hold down the Drag Me tab and pull the file into Evernote, email, a presentation, document, your desktop, a folder in Finder, or any ‘Choose your file’ window that pops up.
- Save files in different formats: Select your preferred file format from a pull-down menu next to the Drag Me tab.
- Resize an image: Find the edge of the image and pull it inward or outward. Or, click on ‘Resize’ in the lower left-hand corner and enter in your preferred dimensions.
- Share: There are a few ways to share your creations. You can drag the annotated image into email or shared Evernote notebooks. Or, you can sign into Skitch with your Evernote ID and share via the Skitch site.
Skitch on your Android phone and tablet
Remember something you like: See a piece of furniture you like and want to remember the type of wood it’s made of? Snap a photo of it with Skitch on Android and type or use your finger to write on the image. Save it to your Evernote account by tapping the elephant icon in the app. You’ll never have that, ‘What is this?’ moment again.
Eliminate words and get things done faster: Skitch lets you make a statement without using words. Snap a photo of an empty dog bowl and send it to your dog sitter to remind him to feed the dog. Need to mark something up on the go? Quickly annotate an existing image in your Evernote account using Skitch (just tap twice on the image in Evernote to open it in Skitch).
Key features, at a glance
- Annotate images on the go: Snap a new image by tapping the camera icon once you launch Skitch, or choose an existing image to edit by tapping the photo image on the home screen or in Evernote. From there, you can resize images by pinching in and out.
- Add Context: Tap on menu items like the pencil, arrow, finger and text icons. Select your color by tapping the color circle in the lower left-hand corner of the app. You can also draw a fresh sketch on a clean white canvas.
- Crop: The latest update to Skitch for Android lets you quickly crop an image you have saved in Evernote by tapping on it, opening it in Skitch and cropping away.
This is only a starting point. Play around with Skitch and you’ll discover many exciting ways to use it. And stay tuned, Skitch is coming to more platforms and devices soon. Get Skitch now! Available for free for Android and Mac »
Have you been using Skitch and Evernote together? We want to hear how. Tell us in the comments!
85 Comments
Spencer
Great Potential with Skitch & Evernote! More beginners video tutorials would be of great benefit. Step by step. e.g. When to first use Skitch then save to Evernote vs. when to create a note first & then bring it into Skitch.
Kim
What about for iPhone???
Jeff C.
Any efforts toward completely integrating the two applications? Since Evernote already supports so many platforms, why not just add Skitch’s features into the next release of Evernote?
Also, a Ubuntu version would be nice!
Thanks!
Andrew Sinkov
We have two goals for Skitch: bring it to more platforms, integrate it with Evernote in exciting ways. We’re working on both.
Marcel
Hello Jeff,
I agree, Skitch fully integrated with Evernote would great (better).
Kind regards,
Marcel
J Barrus
I’d love to use Skitch, but I object to the terms of use. If I upload a photo, you have the irrevocable right to use it in any way you want including permission to sublicense it to others (“a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide license”). With Flickr, they require only limited rights and you once you remove an image, Yahoo!s rights go away.
Any chance you will make the terms of use more palatable in the future?
Andrew Sinkov
We’re reviewing the Skitch terms. They were historically used by the Skitch business and we expect to be making changes to bring them more in line with the Evernote service terms of use. Many businesses have felt that the license grant provisions that you quoted are legally necessary in order to enable the busibess to provide the service, particularly if they have to technically copy and transmit user content. We believe that the license rights can be more limited.
Steve
Why isn’t this available on my ipod???? I have two iPods, an iPad one and two, wth? Don’t send me email regarding your super product if I can’t use it on all my platforms. I love Evernote but don’t advertise if you haven’t finished development!
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Hi Steve, we’re working on getting Skitch on all platforms.
Steve
Is skitch available for iPod or iPad? If so, I’ve not been able to locate it. I love your product, gave you great reviews- from my iPad- and I have skitch on my android phone and tablet.
Andrew Sinkov
Skitch is available for Mac and Android at this time. We’re working on an iOS version.
Georgia Gibbs
I have been a Skitch user for some time but had actually deleted it from my desktop because it is a bit cumbersome and the UI is awful. But when I saw you had purchased it I downloaded it again and will give it a fresh look. One feature that could be extremely useful, aside from an overhaul of the UI, would be that Skitch allows multiple file uploads – or maybe it is there and I just don’t see it. One at a time almost makes the Skitch to painful to use. Also, will you be integrating it into Evernote more in the future. It would be great to log into Evernote and be able to view my sketch ‘notebooks’.
nick
What is the finger thing
Charles C.
How do you get a note from Evernote into Skitch using android if it was not created in Skitch. For instance getting a scriipture into Skitch to annotate or use and arrow or highlight to teach a sunday school class.
Andrew Sinkov
Tap and hold on the image and choose Edit in Skitch.
tagross
I just downloaded Evernote to my NookColor, then on my PC. Does everything work together? All features available on both devices?
Rossda
Andrew,
Skitch shines on a tablet. I do all of the shopping in my family. I can snap the product, highlight the features, note the store and price, etc, then pass it around.
The screen size. ( 10″) and popup keyboard make everything fast and SIMPLE!
This what an app should do. Many thanks
carl
What about for Windows and integrate with Evernote? This would be a great tool.
Wo King
How can I save my Skitches to a particular notebook in Evernote? How can I choose which notebook I save my Skitches to?