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.

prof

Please, please go back to the old version. I switched to Evernote from another application because of the one-click-save-webpage functionality. This has me almost swearing never to use a web-based program. What’s the point if the features you depend on can be changed at whim? At least give us an option.

I also concur with Ryan. The clipper fonts and the window are now misaligned.

Changing the most basic functionality like that creates an insecure user base who will jump at the next thing… Please don’t become that.
Bruce

I’m a network administrator for a software company and I love Evernote and look forward to each new release, but I spent a good 15 minutes “troubleshooting” my empty web clips before I found this page and discovered that marketing has invaded the engineering department. This upgrade is called “The Amazing New and Improved Web Clipper”? That’s preposterous (overuse has weakened this term – it means “absurdly ludicrous”).

BTW, selecting the whole page and then clipping produces a poorly rendered shadow of the original web page. I want my old and busted feature-deficient Evernote clipper back!

When something this stupid happens, usually the lawyers are involved. Is that what happened? If so, let us know, then at least we’d know why the eviscerated Evernote clipper is wearing a marketing hand-spun silk suit.
dan

I am very upset. Is there any way to switch back? I want to add the clips when I want, and edit later when I have time. I want to use this tool as it was, free and runing locally.

If this is the way for evernote, I would use a simplest software, but reliable and honest.
Chris

I just want to add a vote for having the Web Clipper clip an entire web page by default. Most of the time I want to either clip full pages or, less often, else just a selection of them.

Couldn’t the Quicknote functionality be achieved in some other way? For example, by dragging and dropping the URL from the address bar onto the Evernote window.
http://whatthefluke.blogspot.com/ fer

So what’s the difference between the little elephant icon buttonn on the top of the browser and the clipper? Is the elephant button not needed anymore?
max

HI

I find this a useful article. Thanks for sharing

Good Luck
Max
BrianJ

Just added this app. Great idea, Thanks.
Matt Coyne

Is there a link you can send me to learn how to save photos and text from Safari on my iphone?

Also do you have an easy way to send photos from iphoto to Evernote?

THanks so much! I love your product and am going to go premium if I figure an easy way for my wife to do this.
Si Hill

any idea how to make the web site appear as a web site in evernote? instead of just plain text? or is that just not possible?
http://www.caut-avocat.com/ dann

I found Evernote as I was looking for alternatives to Google Notebook. It is quite useful and the web clipper make it so easy to clip parts of a page. It can help you especially if you need to compare different houses on a longer period of time.

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