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Publishing and sharing your notes

Tips and Stories | By Andrew Sinkov
 

UPDATE: Things have changed quite a bit since this post.

Please read our new Sharing and Collaboration post.

Say you’re using Evernote to plan a trip. You’ve been clipping webpages of hotels and restaurants, typing itineraries, snapping photos of your travel documents (just in case). Now, you want to give all of your travel buddies access to this information. Evernote lets you do that.

By default, everything you create in Evernote is private, but you can easily publish any notebook to the web. Here are instructions for how to do this using the web and Mac clients. This is coming very soon to Windows. For now, Windows users can publish their notebooks using Evernote Web.

1. Select the notebook you want to publish
2.
- Web: Click on the Actions dropdown and select Settings
- Mac: Cmd + click on the notebook and select Notebook Settings
3. Click Publish
Optional step: Add a description
4. Copy the URL (don’t click the URL yet, the notebook isn’t saved)
5. Click OK or Save
6. Mac only: Click Sync

That’s it. That URL is now publicly available, so send it to anyone, even subscribe to the RSS feed. Stay tuned for more publishing and sharing options in the very near future.

  • PacoBell

    I needed collaboration features about a week ago. There’s a vacuum in the market to fill. I’m hoping your time to market will be sooner than later, otherwise some snappier company may eat your lunch in the meantime.

  • http://www.rude.no Rune Solberg

    Well the only thing Im waiting for is collaboration features. But for now Im stuck with Google Apps for that. Hope you’ll get your finger out soon :-)

    Great product otherwise, love it!

    Best regards,

    Rune Solberg
    Freelance Designer

  • Elliot

    Add my vote for sharing with admin/role-based security on master Evernote account to allow different employees access to different notebooks/tags/notes and protect business from one rogue employee changing email address and password in current workaround of each dept has separate copy of Evernote. See my comment on ‘part-deux’ podcast.

  • Elliot

    one other small request. Can windows desktop client open with default focus be on last entered note like outlook inbox. Find that really annoying that have to scroll up and down or filter by date to find last note. Why is at bottom. Last note should be at top!! Along with default focus.

  • Jono

    A possible workaround for the missing collaboration function everyone seems to want, is to allow polygamy (log into multiple accounts at the same time). Alternatively, allow multiple instances of the app to be open, and let each one log in as a different person.

    This way, groups can create accounts, and all sync together.

    Otherwise, a fantastic app :) really enjoy it!

  • http://www.anotheraaron.wordpress.com AnotherAaron

    Another vote for select sharing. Grocery lists, collaborative projects, etc……..the usefulness of Evernote would jump ten-fold.

    Have the Evernote folks commented on the possibility of this anywhere? I’m kind of surprised they haven’t at least commented in this thread somewhere….

  • HouseofG

    Well, I came to the Evernote site just to make sure private sharing/collaboration wasn’t available and I see that (a) it isn’t and (b) a LOT of other folks are looking for it as well.

    It really would take Evernote to a whole new level.

    I’ll check other blog entries, but it’s disheartening to see all these comments over the months without any response by Evernote.

  • HouseofG

    Hmm..per an answer to one of the user questions in this podcast…collaboration (on a per notebook scale it sounds like) “soon”?
    http://blog.evernote.com/2009/04/20/evernote-podcast-3/

  • rythman

    Another vote for sharing notes…my wife and I have iPhones…I use Evernote all the time for personal notes, but I’d really like to be able to share a grocery list between the two of us that could be updated and referenced by both of us via our iPhones using the Evernote app.

    I’m sure there “might” be another app out there that could do this….but I’d rather use Evernote. :) This functionality would take Evernote to the next level IMO.

  • Mike

    +10 for collaborative sharing with named users. Sadly, without that, can’t move my journalist team over. With it, I’d move from Google in a flash.

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