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What’s the toughest thing to remember? For me, it’s websites. Everyday, I visit tons of sites: blogs, shopping, news, recipes, and travel. It’s too much. I’ve actually stopped bookmarking because it’s so hard to find anything in the sea of links, and when I do go back, the page is often gone or changed. Since Evernote is a single place for all of your memories, (websites you visit are memories too, you know) we thought we could do better.

Introducing, the new Evernote Web Clipper, which gives you the ease and simplicity of bookmarking, but more importantly, also gives you context by saving the text, images, and links, including the source URL, right into your Evernote account. Once the page, or part of a page, is saved into your account, you can tag, organize, search, browse, edit, and remember it forever.

I use the web clipper when I’m researching vacations, looking for a good recipe, or when I run across neat technical articles. With a single click, I have the content saved. So, even if the page goes away, my memory of it doesn’t.

Most importantly, because the web clipper is part of Evernote, you can have more than just copies of web pages. You can remember all sort of stuff such as, pictures, personal notes, doodles on napkins, and anything else, all accessible online, offline, and from your phone.

Here’s a short video where Andrew shows us how to install and use the web clipper:

Here’s another idea. Find a recipe online and clip it into Evernote. Then, when you’re at the store, bring the note up on your phone using Evernote Mobile Web: instant shopping list.

A little technical detail: You don’t need to reinstall the bookmarklet (the little browser button that says “Clip to Evernote”) if you already have it. It automatically upgrades to the latest version. Otherwise, go on and install it. Just drag or add the green clipper button below to your link bar.

Clip to Evernote

Now, get out there and start clipping!

  • http://www.randomthink.net/ Brian

    “So what’s the difference between this feature and the browser extensions for Firefox and IE?”

    Someone already asked this question, which I also have, but there doesn’t seem to be an answer yet. Anyone?

    I mean, I know the obvious technical differences, but is there a preferred method?

  • http://www.rickscheibner.net Rick

    I’ve been doing a series of blog posts on Evernote, so I’ll include this feature some time in the future. Interesting that I’ve used Evernote this summer for, among other things, vacation planning and recipes.

  • Dwayne

    As an IT Manager I can certainly see this being helpful for the many technical searches I do in a given day.

  • JT

    There are two tools for clipping from Firefox to Evernote. “Evernote Web Clipper” is a FF add-on. It works on your local machine and creates a note in your local Evernote database, which is then synced. “Clip to Evernote” is a bookmark. It creates a note in your account on the Evernote server, which will be appear in your local Evernote database after you sync.

    What is tantalizing about “Clip to Evernote” is the potential ability to be on any supported browser, anywhere, and clip into your Evernote account. Visiting your sister and want to clip that Google map on her machine so you can retrieve it from your cell when you’re on the road? The Evernote team could easily create a special page, imho, that could make this use case a no brainer (for example, evernote.com/clipnow would facilitate creating the bookmark on the local machine, after which the user could go back to the map page and clip away).

    Evernote 2.x added a “Go to source web page” on every clip. That’s gone in Evernote 3. I finally discovered where the source URL can be seen: on the menu select View/Note List (F10). You can see it, but you can’t copy it. Aaargh! My suggestion to the Evernote team: restore the “Go to source web page” functionality via an icon at the top right of each note. There’s room, and the ’round trip’ capability would be great addition to the integration.

    I have two quibbles about the Evernote Web Clipper add-on for Windows. When I select text in FF and hit the Web Clipper button, a dialog box appears in the very lower right of the screen. Quibble 1: This location is at the far end of the screen from where I just hit the Clipper button! Allow the user to relocate this dialog box and store the screen location, so it will come up in the user’s preferred location next time. Or make it a pop out of the Clipper button. Quibble #2: when I use this dialog box to create tags, the focus changes from FF to Evernote. Please bring up a Tags Assignment (or equivalent) box that does not steal the focus!

    I’m a huge Evernote fan. Keep up the great work! The OneNote team must be furious. Ha!

    jt

  • http://www.parkroad.co.za/blog foxtrotcharlie

    Regarding the “Go to source web page” issue – there’s an icon at the top left of every note which will take you to the source web page.

  • Lynn Fogwell

    I have an iPod touch. I was really excited about this app until I hit the show-stopper. I need to have notes on my iTouch that go to and from my computer (web is OK too…) BUT, I am not always connected to the net and there is no local storage on the mobile device. All the notes and all the coolness is gone when I’m not tethered to the net. iPhone users: good luck reviewing all your notes on that next airplane flight!
    You seem to understand the value of local copies flexible syncing for the (Mac) desktop app. It is ten times more important for mobile users.

  • http://www.evernote.com/pub/sisbill/GCPcomments Shirley

    I can’t see my notes on my Evernote web page. I am using IE 8 Beta.

  • http://thelastminuteblog.com Duncan

    I uninstalled the new web clipper (because it crashed my browser every time I clicked) and now my Firefox bookmarks are gone. Sigh.

  • leo

    hi guys,

    an opera web-clip button is urgently needed.simply because opera is the finest browser so far.come on :)

    • Glen

      Bang on. Although the bookmark provides the function.

  • http://None Knl

    I am on an ipad2 and it won’t let me drag the green web clipper link into my safari link bar, any help is appreciated, thx!

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