HTC Tablets and Evernote

Partners | 02 Sep 201102 Sep 11 | By Andrew Sinkov

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We’re big fans of our partners. They’re helping to bring the Evernote lifestyle to more people, in more ways than we could ever imagine. Every so often, a partner comes along that does something completely new and unexpected. That type of innovative thinking is usually associated with startups and single developers, which is why it’s so cool when a company like HTC comes along and wows us with their Evernote integration.

What HTC created

For all of their Android devices, HTC developed Sense, an interface for Android to optimize the user experience on HTC devices. HTC saw an opportunity to provide an innovative note taking experience on their tablet devices, so they built Evernote right into it.

Notes on the HTC Flyer and HTC Jetstream

The 7″ HTC Flyer and the new 10″ HTC Jetstream are designed for both manual and digital pen input. HTC created a notes app which looks like a spiral bound notebook and ties directly into Evernote. Tap on the page and tap out your thoughts. Grab your digital pen and sketch something. Take a photo with the tablet camera and annotate it. Record audio and attach it to a note. When you’re done, everything is sent right into your Evernote account. You can even link notes to calendar events!

Time stamped audio
The HTC notes app allows you to record audio as you take notes (typed or handwritten). The app automatically connects your content to the audio recording, allowing you to easily jump to the moments in the audio associated with the notes you took.

Annotate anything
What makes HTC tablets so powerful is the way that they integrate the notes app with so many aspects of the interface. Say you’re browsing the web and want save something you like. Take your digital pen and draw a circle around an object, then save it into the Notes app. You can do the same thing on any screen of the devices.

The complete Evernote experience
The Notes app is a complete Evernote client, meaning that you can create, browse and search through your entire Evernote account. You can create new notebooks, move notes between notebooks and more.

All of this got ZDNet to call the HTC Flyer, “the magic Evernote tablet.” We couldn’t agree more.

The Evernote API

HTC was able to do all this thanks to the open, free Evernote API. You can also create amazing Evernote-integrated apps and products. Take a look at our developer site for more information.

http://sumocat.blogspot.com Sumocat

I hate to be “that guy” but you mention Sense when the HTC technology with Evernote integration is actually Scribe. This is the difference between a touch tablet and an Evernote machine.
http://brianwyrick.com Brian

I’d love to get the time stamped audio sync inn the iOS Evernote apps. That isn’t something I’ve missed is it?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  That feature isn’t available in Evernote at this time. In this case, it was something that HTC built themselves.
http://www.thaihomeonline.com Arthur

I like this, it very nice tablet.
titi

I like it. It seems great!
http://altruix.co/blog/ Dmitri Pisarenko

Hi!

I bought HTC Flyer Wi-Fi (P512), but the Notes application keeps crashing, if I put my notes into a synchronized notebook.

It is more stable, if I use local (not synchronized) notebooks only.

The cause of the crashes are OutOfMemoryErrors during synchronization with Evernote. Details can be found at http://bit.ly/uDdnX8

It would be great, if HTC fixed that problem.

Best regards

Dmitri
- Payam @ HTC
  
  Hi Dmitri,
  
  This issue has been addressed in the Honeycomb update for the Flyer which will be rolled out via FOTA.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Payam
Jorj X McKie

The HTC Flyer & its stylus are some nice hardware. Unfortunately, the HTC Note app is lousy for drawing and that’s all there is, and I’m worried that sales are too low for them to cater to the artistic crowd like that company named after a fruit did. The Note app also bogs down horribly as it disables the stylus while ‘auto saving’. This really blows if taking notes for class or meeting. Unless HTC gets with the program re stylus, I’d recommend the Lenovo stylus tab. Seems to work great with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
Jorj X McKie

Drawing a circle around web content with stylus does not work as described. It *will* trigger a screen shot that you can mark-up and save. Significantly different thing…
brad morrison

Would like ability to append or select a differnet note. Often times I am reading a kindle book and I want to capture a note. When I click screen capture it creates a new note in evrrnote every time with no ability to append the existing note. By the time I finish a book or lengthy article, I have 70 new notes in evernote, when i just want one note with multiple pages. Does this make sense?
david

Will time-stamped audio become part of Evernote?
Chris

Agree with Brad. We need to append to notes. Screenshots seem to create new notes.

Also see to discard notes accidently by touching the screen. After spending 10min annotating a screen dump – I lost it.

Everytime you save – it creates a new note. Would be good to just save!

Web editor and Windows editor is very basic.

This app has a long way to go to be useful in the professional world. Hope we get there.

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