Skitch for Mac Gets Sharing Through Evernote!

Product updates | 19 Mar 201219 Mar 12 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Today marks a major moment in the life of Skitch for Mac: you can now share through Evernote. With a single click, send your annotated images, screenshots and ideas directly into Evernote and share them through our beautiful Skitch sharing interface.

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Sharing with Evernote

Ever since we launched Skitch for Android and Skitch for iPad with Evernote sharing, you’ve asked us to bring it to Mac. Well, here it is.

There are a couple of ways to set up Evernote sharing.

Click on the new Evernote elephant icon along the top of the app
Go into Settings and choose Evernote from the sharing options

Once you have it set, all of your images will go straight to Evernote. We recommend setting Evernote as your default sharing option.

Access everywhere
Now that Skitch for Mac can save images to Evernote, all of the photos, screenshots, maps and mockups you choose will be available on any of your devices. So, wherever you are, you can always access the images you sent to Evernote.

A look to the future

Easy sharing to Evernote is one of the big Skitch user requests. The other big request has been to simplify and clean up the Skitch.com site. Rather than rebuild Skitch.com, we wanted to create a great image sharing experience for all Evernote users. So, we did. It’s completely clutter-free and perfectly highlights the image. Plus, now you can see your Skitch images right inside of Evernote.

What this means for Skitch.com users
If you’ve been using Skitch.com, then today you’ve gained a new sharing option, but otherwise things are unchanged. In the near future, we will transition away from Skitch.com sharing in favor of Evernote sharing. This transition will allow all Skitch users to experience the many benefits of Evernote.

We will continue to support existing Skitch.com content, so all of your images (and related links) will continue to be available. We’re also working on an export tool, which will allow you to easily download all of your old Skitch images and then save them to Evernote, if you like. That’s coming soon.

We’re very excited about this change. Moving to Evernote means that Skitch for Mac maintains all of its fun, easy sharing features, while gaining cross-platform sync, a much-improved shared view and a significant reliability upgrade.

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Claude

Is there a way to annotate an image made Evernote, through Evernote, using Skitch on an iPad? For instance, I have some photographs that I took though Evernote, and made a note out of them. Now I want to annotate them with Skitch. It doesn’t seem like there is an integrated Skitch function in Evernote for iPad to do this (I have the Skitch app on my iPad).

Basically, it seems like there is only information flow between Skitch and Evernote on the iPad in one direction- Skitch to Evernote, and not the other way ’round. Is this right?

This can be done in android (phones at least)by the way- annotate notes made in Evernote with Skitch…….

Thanks for the help.
Arie

I know I’m late updating to this, but it was because I was really hesitant about being forced to go through Evernote for quickly sharing Skitch images. And it seems my concerns were justified. I use both Evernote and Skitch daily for work, and until now had absolutely no complaints about either. Skitch is super convenient for taking a quick screenshot, uploading it, grabbing the URL and then pasting it into our work IRC channel to discuss things. Or it used to be…

I used to get URLs like this: http://skitch.com/arieanne/e8ddj/band-concert

But now I get this unwieldy behemoth, that I then have to go to ANOTHER service to make manageable enough to actually use: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s39/sh/f3cafe06-221e-453b-b0d6-582ced0d0cb8/b30a0bc4754b027871d341d6a13790be

I’d really like to see a more manage URL here, or maybe have the option to automatically use a URL shortener service to get it to something I’m not embarrassed to paste to others. Can this please be added to the future features list?
Paul Helmick

DIRECT LINK TO IMAGE FILE:
Please restore ability to quickly and easily get a direct link to a public shared image file .png, etc vs the preview page – very necessary to have with regard to capturing / sharing images via a blog, etc.

SAVE TO DESIGNATED FOLDER OPTION
vs putting into the inbox stream
juandesant

After updating to Skitch 2.0, I’ve downgraded to the latest Skitch, just because the Snap Safari function is missing. I do use Paparazzi! for PDF captures, but for some workflows Skitch is easier and less cumbersome.

So I won’t be updating until that capability is restored… unless it is a problem with sandbox entitlements, in which case this might never get solved.
- juandesant
  
  I mean, Mac App Store version 1.0.9
katherine

hmmm well I love evernote but Ive never had much use for skitch because I can’t import anything into it. For example, I created a file, typed in some text and wanted to add an image, save it to evernote for future reference and to possibly share. ALas that isnt possible. I could open an image in skitch and then type all over it..but that defeats the purpose of trying to bring together several elements into a visual note. One must needs be able to copy and paste between notes.

Still love evernote…not sure how skitch improves things at the moment…but its a start.
Shino

Please restore the ‘direct url’ sharing feature
candymankz

For the people that wanted to use Evernote go ahead and good luck i say. And for the ones that wanted to use skitch and didn’t want to be policed By Evernote and god noes who els etc
it would of been nice to have a choice and
i would of had no problem with paying a good dollar for the use of the skitch application

And I wasn’t one bit happy about being forced to go through Evernote at all. i have been a user of the app From day one, i have no idea why they would destroy such a great application, to only complicate tasks witch has crippled the app! to the point that many find it unusable and alien to one’s workflow. For instance, many of Skitch’s users value the ability to upload content via FTP onto their own servers, as it allows sharing and previewing images privately, so to speak. In contrast, pushing all content to Evernote means publicly displaying these images using Evernote’s service.

And I don’t understand the reasoning behind the decision to remove and/or complicate simple features, such as resizing, cropping, running silently on the menu bar, etc. Since these are some of Skitch’s successful features, it’s clear that Evernote didn’t test this version for initial user feedback before making it available to the public. If the premise is to make Skitch 2 work similarly to its iOS counterparts, it’s definitely not working for Mac users at all….

After i signed into Evernote it wasn’t 5 minutes before i was being asked to upgrade to a paid plan, why would anyone in there right mind give Evernote money for downgrading an application, that worked just fine before they stuffed it up…….
this will open the door for someone to come up with a new app, something like the skitch app
i just hope its not to long
http://www.filamentlab.com Stephen

Please restore the direct link feature. I really dislike having to share to a page, going to the page, locate the resource URL and then pasting that into basecamp/blog/documents etc. Your changes have negatively impacted my workflow
ronaldtoledo

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