Integration Spotlight: reQall

Partners | 26 Oct 200926 Oct 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Here’s a short tale of my list-making woes: I’m going shopping and I need olive oil, so I write down “olive oil.” This somewhat sensible decision quickly turns into 20 minutes spent staring blankly at the supermarket’s wall of olive oils. Or when traveling, I’ll write “visit the Corn Palace” only to misplace any relevant information about its history or importance.

You’re right, I should be more organized, but this whole process needs to be easier. My lists shouldn’t be denser, they should be smarter. Enter reQall’s Evernote integration.

reQall in their own words

reQall is a voice-enabled memory aid that seamlessly integrates your mobile phone, email, text messaging and IM into a powerful organizer, reminder system and productivity assistant. reQall lets you capture your ideas, tasks and commitments before you forget, and it proactively keeps you well-prepared and memory-strong.

The integration

reQall used the Evernote API to make lists and reminders incredibly useful. Whenever you speak or type an item into reQall, their service automatically searches your Evernote account to find any related notes. Then, when reQall reminds you of your task, you can quickly call up any relevant Evernote content without leaving the reQall application. It’ll even search for keywords inside of images.

Why this is cool

Here’s a Food Month-friendly example of why this is exciting. You’re throwing a dinner party and you need to pick up supplies. First, create your shopping list by speaking or typing it into reQall on the web or your iPhone.

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Once at the store, tap on “Zinfandel,” and reQall brings up the note in Evernote of a Zinfandel you loved while on a trip through wine country. Need some wine glasses? Good thing you clipped the page from Crate and Barrel into Evernote.

The beauty of all this is that it’s incredibly simple and doesn’t require changing your workflow. From shopping to event planning to business meetings to travel, everything you need to remember is right at your fingertips. No extra effort required.

Get reQall

The Evernote integration is a part of reQall Pro. Sign up for reQall on their website, upgrade to Pro, then link your Evernote account from the Settings menu. Make sure to get reQall for iPhone from the AppStore. Learn more from reQall.

The Evernote API

Learn more about the Evernote API on our developer page, and join the many hundreds of developers currently working with the Evernote API to create new and exciting integrations.

Gregg Smith

I love evernote and pay for it. Couldn’t live without it. That said, I would really love it if I could use Reqall (which I also pay for) to send text directly to evernote. Currently I had to create a gmail rule based work around that is a pain. Any hope for this?
http://blog.rrdphoto.com Ryan Dlugosz

I’m a huge fan of Evernote and am a paying customer. I’ve also paid for JotNot and think it does a pretty good job of fixing images such that they are usable within EN. This app looks similar – I’ve recently been wishing that EN would handle audio transcription similar to how it handles image OCR.

While it’s great that the API is out there and Evernote is promoting the use of it, I am becoming concerned that these features will not become a part of the EN platform. Will EN eventually add these basic extensions to the core app? (For the record, I realize that audio transcription and the image enhancement pieces aren’t exactly simple – by “basic”, I mean extensions to the current capabilities that are somewhat obvious for the feature roadmap.)
Alisha

@Gregg, you can share with Evernote by listing your Evernote private email as a contact. There is a lot of stuff that gets sent along with your note which makes it a bit annoying to me. Dial2Do does a great job of sending text directly to Evernote, but I need the memory aide of Reqall that Dial2Do does not offer. I’m hoping that when Evernote integration comes to all ReQall users, not just the iphone, that sending things to Evernote will be easier. I would like my ReQall notes to automatically go into my Evernote account…but I’m probably dreaming!
Gregg Smith

@Alisha thanks. My method actually cuts down on the amount of extra text that gets sent (I believe). I say “Evernote” at the beginning of the recording and Gmail routes it to Evernote. I also have outlook task integration so I don’t want every note going my tasks.

One of the voicemail transcription companies is now licensing their transcription tool to use in 3rd party apps. I’ve been hoping EN would license and build an internal transcription as well.

Thanks for listening, EN.
Ralph Lampelzammer

reQall really searches only the title and tag of your notes. As far as I have noticed (Pro-Version) it does not search the (really important) body of your note.
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  @Ralph reQall searches through the title, tags, and the body of your note. They’re fairly intelligent about how they preform the searches. For example, if your reQall item is something like “Buy Zinfandel today,” they would likely only search for the word Zinfandel, as the other two words are actionable keywords that have specific meaning within the reQall system.
http://martho2.blogspot.com/ Mark Thomas

Will the search capability be extended to Blackberry?
Gary

Whatever I enter in reQall (after having enabled my EN account)…when I tap “show related items”, I get “Sorry could not get related items from Evernote”….even when the spelling and everything is exact. Not sure if there is some huge delay…???
lukas

what about a windows mobile app & integration. this sounds usefull!
Gary

My results have nothing at all to do with the reQall item. It brings back completely erroneous results. Cool feature..just doesn’t seem to work. Also- why are reQall EN PDF previews showing up when you guys don’t even have PDF thumbnail preview in the native EN app??
David Casseres

This page is incredibly hard to read. The type is small and pale gray. What’s up with that?

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