The Amazing New and Improved Web Clipper

Product updates | 26 Feb 200926 Feb 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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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.

http://www.maclectic.com 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

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