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Remember The Food and Meals You Love With Evernote Food

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Some of our most memorable moments happen around food. We don’t just eat for nutrition; meals are a vehicle for conversations, romance, ideas, family, exploration, and so much more. Let’s give our meals the Evernote treatment they deserve.

Please welcome, Evernote Food, available now for iPhone ».

Evernote Food is all about preserving the experiences, thoughts and memories that accompany food. The app is simple, elegant and a whole lotta fun to use. Plus, it’s free!

Let’s get started

Everything in Evernote Food is contained within Meals. Each Meal consists of a meal title, as many photos as you like, photo captions, venue (choose from a list or add your own), notes, and tags. When you add a bunch of photos to a Meal, the app takes on a “T” shape, with horizontally swipeable photos along the top and meal information displayed vertically.

Related notes
At the bottom of the meal, the app displays any related notes you have in Evernote. These are notes created around the same time. They might be faces of people you met using Evernote Hello or notes you took in Evernote.

Sharing

Like everything is Evernote, we’re focused on helping you save and relive your memories. Food memories are often social, so we built in Facebook, Twitter and email sharing into the app. When you share the meal, your friends will see all the photos, captions and impressions you had about the experience.

Endless possibilities

Here are a few simple scenarios and how Evernote Food helps you capture them.

The night out
You’re having dinner out with friends. Launch Evernote Food as you walk into the restaurant and snap a photo of the awning. Find the restaurant from the Places screen. Next, take photos of all the dishes, your friends, the wine, and anything else that inspires you. Add captions to each of the photos by tapping on the photo. Type in some general notes and thoughts about the meal.

Family meals
Whether you’re hosting a big family meal or visiting relatives for the holidays, there’s always something to remember. Use Evernote Food to record your cooking process, or take notes of conversations that happen around the table.

Developing a recipe
Developing a delicious recipe takes time. Evernote Food makes the process much easier. Create a new meal and title it with the name of the dish you’re working on. Take photos every step of the way and caption them with measurements and instructions. In the notes section, add more information about the dish along with tips and ideas.

Traveling
Some of our most thrilling food experiences happen while traveling. Use Evernote Food to remember them all. Title your meals with the location, then snap photos of the sights, everything you eat, and everything else that you want to save for later.

Tracking what you eat
Evernote Food can be used as a simple food tracker. Create a Meal for each day. Take a photo of what you eat and food labels, then type in ingredients and calorie information into the caption, and include totals in the notes section.

All synchronized with Evernote

All of your meals in Evernote Food are synchronized with Evernote so that you can view them from any device or computer. They show up beautifully laid out in Evernote, perfect for viewing across all of your devices.

At this time, notes created in Evernote Food are read-only in Evernote. If you want to make changes, just open the Meal in Evernote Food.

Bon appétit!

We’re very excited about this app, partly because we’re ridiculously food-obsessed here at Evernote, but also because the app is just plain cool. Try it out and let us know what you think.

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  • Danny

    How about a thumbs up or down so we can track whether we liked something. I’m more interested in tracking what I didn’t like than what I do (I can usually remember if I like something).

    • Steven

      Sounds like a good addition or a 1 – 5 star rating. A ‘Liked’ and ‘Disliked’ tagging is working for me at the moment as an interim process.

  • James

    Android. When? Seriously… 2012 better be the Android year. I’m so sick of Apple apps coming out first. They have already predicted that more Android apps will be sold by mid-2012 than Apple based on current trends. Come on developers, show some Android love too.

    • Steven

      Look at it this way, us apple users get the first release of apps with their limitations, bugs, etc. The app then gets expanded, polished and released to Android users as a complete product. Would you prefer to be the guinea pig for new releases? ;-)

  • Karthi

    This looks great, I am an Android user. Would love to use this app. But I can understand that it can be hard to cater for all Android users given all the different devices and versions of Android out there. How about focusing on the Google Nexus Phones only :P .

    I think I might switch to an IPhone if it is easier for developers to develop great Apps like this.

    • NIck

      As far as difficulty programming for each android device unless you are making a super complicated app like the netflix one. the only difference is screen sizes other than that most apps work across the board(tablets excluded cause we are talking phones) and really the issue is just that iPhone and Android have different libraries and environments to develop in. There for it really only matters which one they pick first and then the other one is re coding their work to be compatible with the other environment.

  • Scott

    Yes, bring on the Android version!

  • preetee

    I love the idea and would love to use this as a recipe book. I would like to see the ability to import a recipe in here so i can take pictures and make my own notes as well. Also, I would love to see an evernote wine!

  • john p

    This is really useful for collecting recipes from magazines etc and the accompanying photos – also then useful to include how your version turned out…one thing would be useful – the ability to clip the recipe page from iOS safari if its a webbased recipe as the copy functionality to add it to the note appears only to allow one paragraph and not the whole website…

    Really cool…I like this

  • Camillo

    Hey Evernote, I really love your products. Why don´t you guys doesnt think in link somehow with FitBit. It will be great to also add pics with their software. Check it out http://www.fitbit.com.

  • Mark

    I would really like the ability to edit something once it sinks with Evernote on my laptop. Currently, it seems that all you can do is edit the tags. I would love to be able to add additional notes, or even to import the recipe.

    • Mark

      Or “syncs”

  • Marcus Eng

    It appears the app no longer correctly posts to Facebook. It either hangs endlessly or it provides a “shareit” box but does not post the entry just generic language about the post.

    • Naomi

      Thanks. We are aware of the issue and looking into it.

  • ric

    Hi Evernote! Love your work and this new app. May I suggest a similar one for wine (beer/whisky/…) lovers? I am already using a rather nice iOS app for this, but… NO SYNCING! Do the right thing guys, when you get a chance. Please. Thanx

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