The Evernote Site Memory Button

Product updates | 09 Sep 201009 Sep 10 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Since the beginning we’ve been focused on one thing: making it trivially easy for you to remember all the stuff you love. It turns out that you really love saving webpages—it’s the most popular note type in Evernote. So, today we’re announcing something that makes saving webpages an integrated part of your browsing experience.

For the first time ever, we’re releasing a feature designed exclusively for site owners and publishers. It’s called Evernote Site Memory and it’s really cool.

What is the Site Memory button?

The Evernote Site Memory button embeds a mini version of Evernote onto your pages. As the name suggests, the button gives your website a memory—like getting an incredibly powerful favorite function, without the implementation headaches. Whether you run a blog, news outlet, storefront, or corporate site, here’s what Site Memory can do for you:

1. Total clipping control

By placing the Site Memory button on your site, you will control precisely what is saved into your visitors’ Evernote accounts. As part of the button customization, you define what region of a page is clipped and the title of the resulting note. You can suggest tags to accompany the note, as well as the destination notebook for the clip. You can even have your clips include automatic headers, footers, links, and attributions. In other words, you can make pages clipped from your site look great.

For an advanced description of what you can define, please read our Site Memory developer documentation.

2. Entire clipping history without leaving your site

When a visitor click the Site Memory button, a popup opens. That popup serves two functions. First, it lets them save the page, as described above. Second, and maybe more interestingly, it shows visitors everything they have ever clipped from your domain. Ever. Right inside the popup. Visitors just click on the green tab. They can browse through a thumbnailed list of their favorite content from your site—just like an automatic Best Of list. Even notes that were made using our browser extensions prior to you placing the Site Memory button on the page will show up in the results. Once they find the note they’re looking for, your visitors click and jump to the original page.

Clipping = loyalty

Take a look at your web clips and you’ll probably discover that the vast majority are from a small handful of sites. Saving webpages is akin to placing a personal seal of approval on the content. You like it. You want to refer to it later. You save it. You’ll come back to the site for more. Evernote Site Memory is the perfect complement to sharing buttons (Facebook Like, Tweet Button). Those bring more readers to your content, while Evernote helps foster lasting relationships with readers.

Get Site Memory!

Ok, now that you know what Site Memory is all about, go get it. Get Site Memory for your site here. There are also instructions on how to install it into WordPress and Tumblr.

If you’d like to try it out, click on the button at the top of this post.

We’re interested in hearing your thoughts on Site Memory. Also, please tell us if you put Site Memory up on your website with a link in the comments.

http://30boxes.com/lifestream/61150 Jay Dugger

@Daryl–you have it right. I don’t care for the publisher’s ability to add superfluous material, nor the lack of an indicator on whether you clip a selection, the whole [age, or just the page’s URL. Still, this doesn’t suck, and it makes a good first step. The affiliate program makes a nice touch.
http://www.slocumdstudio.com/ Jonathan Desrosiers

If you are looking for a plugin that integrates Evernote’s new Site Memory feature into your website, check out the one that I developed:
http://www.slocumstudio.com/2010/09/evernote-site-memory-plugin-for-wordpress/
It does all the dirty work for you. No need to touch any HTML, CSS, PHP or JavaScript.
David Monteith

Read the wordpress instructions through 4 times and while I’m not the most tech savvy guy in the world, I’m far from a tech ignoramus. It suffered from what most of these things do around the net – it’s written for someone with more than a basic understanding of what to do with the terms given.

Sigh…guess I’m waiting for the widgets
http://www.schedule-my-employees.com Walter Spurgiasz

Just added Site Memory to my employee scheduling service at schedule-my-employees.com

This will make it much easier for managers and employees to save their schedules to Evernote.
Overall it works well. Two things I noticed is that when the link is clicked, there can be a significant delay with out any progress indicator. Once you know to wait, the delay is not too bad, but for new users, they may think the feature is broken and give up. Also, some tables lost the vertical border lines that rendered fine on the original page. Not sure what is going on here but the Evernote page was still very readable so not a show stopper.
http://Crossfitlondonuk.com Steven Shrago

We’ve installed the site memory button on our website. It deeply satisfies and nourishes my inner geek. Thanks, Evernote!
http://www.thebreakfastcook.com Nelson

I added site memory to my blog http://www.thebreakfastcook.com, though I’m still having trouble formatting it to only include the post information
http://www.cocoamedia.co.uj Dave Fowler

I have added it to my company site at http://www.cocoamedia.co.uk and my personal blog at http://www.blownpixel.co.uk.

I use evernote everyday for work and play.. it rocks.
http://www.woodheat.ru oleg

Just added http://www.woodheat.ru/catalog.html Hope will see results soon
http://www.stereodax.com Dax

Although this feature is great, the entire work-around of offering a print-friendly clipping using the contentURL is counter web standards and requires an additional trip to the server. Wouldn’t it be possible to have an extra styling value named ‘print’ and then to grab the page layout according to a print media specific stylesheet? This would utilise W3C standards and good design and coding practices.

For the rest, an awesome future… a bit much compared to the standard social bookmark links containing all the variables, but then again, this gives the user more control and actually clips the page as.
Tobias Beer

As a user, I much prefer browser extensions, like shareaholics (right in my addressbar!) or clipmarks …or bookmarklets, like amplify or diigolet. It’s the user who wants to decide what to clip …and clicking on a paragraph or an image really isn’t that hard.

But I do understand the reasonable marketing effort behind this …and if content providers chose to equip their page with it, why not.

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