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Hello Connect

Evernote Hello for Android now comes with an innovative way to instantly meet a group of people. It’s called Hello Connect and it uses audio tones to identify other nearby Hello users and join everyone together. Have everyone in your group tap the main screen plus button, then choose Use Hello Connect. Once connected, you’ll have everyone’s photos, contact info and any other information that they have in their Hello profiles.

If you’re in a loud environment or would prefer not to use the audio tones, you can always switch to manual mode and tell everyone around you the four digit Hello Connect code. Everyone punches in the code on their phones, and you’re connected.

Hello Connect is available on both Android and iPhone, and will work across devices.

Facebook

Evernote Hello lets you sign into your LinkedIn and (now) Facebook accounts. We recommend that you do this. It’ll make completing your profile faster and also pull in information about the people you meet as soon as you enter their email address.

To connect to Facebook and LinkedIn, tap the Hello icon in the top left corner of the app, then select Social Networks.

Sync with Google Contacts

To make it easier to keep your contacts up-to-date, Evernote Hello now lets you choose to save all the people you meet to your Google Contacts. This will ensure that you’ll be able to easily connect with everyone at any time.

And more

In addition to everything above, this update also adds a redesigned layout for Hello Notes in Evernote and lots of stability improvements. Let us know what you think.

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Business Card Scanning

The business card scanning feature in Evernote Hello is really great. It’s a Premium feature, but we’ve decided to extend our preview for Free users. It makes adding people to Hello as simple as snapping a photo. Plus, if you connect the app to LinkedIn and Facebook, we’ll build rich profiles automatically. Learn more about business scanning with Evernote Hello.

Flash controls
In our tests, we’ve found that enabling the flash is the best option for consistent business card photos. There are cases, especially with glossy cards, where the flash ends up interfering with our ability to recognize the text. That’s why we added the iPhone’s familiar flash controls to the camera. If you’re snapping a glossy card, you can turn the flash off—just try to be under good lighting conditions.

Better support for iPhone 4
We’ve made a number of improvements and adjustments to the app to make sure that our iPhone 4 users have a great business card scanning experience. Give it shot.

New Premium Feature: Passcode Lock

For an extra level of security, Premium users can enable a passcode lock, which will display whenever the you launch the app. To set the lock, go to My Profile and swipe to the bottom of the screen.

Visit our Evernote Premium page to learn about all the great features that come with Evernote Premium.

And more…

In addition to everything above, we fixed lots of issues, improved the app’s stability and let you update the Title and Organization fields for your Hello Contacts. Try it out and let us know what you think.

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Once you scan a business card, Evernote Hello automatically detects key information on the card, including phone and fax numbers, email address, name and more, and adds it all to the new Hello Contact, making it faster and easier than ever to remember everything about the people you meet than ever before. If you have connected your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, Evernote Hello will also look the person up by their email address and import even more information from their online profiles.

The following tips will help you get the best results out of this feature:

1. Place a light business card on a dark surface. Place a dark business card on a light surface. A contrasting background helps Evernote recognize the edges of the business card and improves text recognition.
2. Tilt the phone slightly so the flash bounces away from the card. The card should look a little tilted in your display, but Evernote will automatically correct for this.
3. Business cards with complicated designs are difficult to recognize properly. If you are not successful capturing a certain card, move on and enter details manually.

Have you tried the new business card scanning feature in Evernote Hello for iPhone and iPod Touch? Let us know what you think in the comments.

• Name: Chris Murphy
• Location: Austin, Texas
• Profession: Co-Owner/Salon Director
• Company: MFX SalonSpa
• Website: www.maximumfx.com

Bio

Chris Murphy is the co-owner and salon director of MFX SalonSpa in Austin, Texas. Chris works with salon and spa owners throughout the U.S. and relies on Evernote to not only manage his business and various speaking opportunities, but to remember people and improve his company’s recruiting and HR processes.

I use Evernote, Everywhere

• iPad
• iPhone
• Mac

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• Evernote Hello for capturing potential salon candidates

I use Evernote for…managing my salon business

I had downloaded Evernote a while ago but couldn’t really wrap my head around how I could incorporate it into my business until I had lunch with Real Estate Ambassador Krisstina Wise. Once she filled me in on the ways she was using Evernote for her business, I thought that I should really have another look. And suddenly, all of the different ways I could be using it just hit me. Now, I don’t know how I could live without it.

I own an Aveda Lifestyle Salon and Spa with multiple physical locations, so one of the most important things to me about Evernote is that it syncs and information I capture is available anywhere. The salon industry is a labor intensive industry so there are always lots of schedules to stay on top of, reviews to keep track of, etc. Being able to manage this type of information in Evernote and be able to access it from anywhere is so helpful.

In addition to the day-to-day management of information, one of the key areas of business that Evernote has majorly impacted is our recruiting process.

Evernote and Evernote Hello for recruiting

Aveda has institutes across the U.S. and because we have relationships with many of them, we tend to do on-site recruiting at different locations. We recruit most heavily from institutes in Austin, San Antonio and Houston. During our visits we usually give a presentation, after which we get approached by 50-60 people who want to learn more about our company and submit their resumes. Prior to Evernote, we didn’t have an efficient system for gathering contact information on site and staying connected with potential candidates.

Having recently downloaded Evernote Hello, I realized that we could be using it to take pictures of candidates who stopped by our table and capture all of their information right then and there. Because Evernote Hello syncs with Evernote, we could even pre-select a specific notebook (in our case, ‘Job Fairs’) to send all of these notes to. Now, instead of collecting business cards or writing down information on scraps of paper, we capture everything using Evernote Hello. I love that Evernote Hello also uses my phone’s GPS to capture the location where the note was taken — this makes it easy for me to connect certain faces with specific institute visits.

Our company has a 6 step recruiting process, and when you have a large volume of applicants rolling in, you can imagine it’s easy to get tripped up over where they are in the process. Between Evernote and Evernote Hello, we’ve been able to essentially streamline our system.

Creating a recruiting system inside of Evernote

We have several notebooks in a Notebook Stack that we use to manage the recruiting process. All of the applicants we capture using Evernote Hello get automatically saved to the ‘Job Fairs’ notebook. We have a separate notebook that includes all scanned resumes that we receive. We have another notebook that includes all applicants who we are interested in; we automatically send all of these applicants a list of questions as a first step. As candidates move through the process, we take notes along the way and funnel them on to the next step. If we decide not to move forward with a candidate, we add them to a separate notebook that we use as a reminder to notify these people.

Using Evernote as the central hub for our recruiting has allowed us to be a lot more efficient and provided more clarity around the recruitment process. I’m able to share recruiting notebooks with all of my managers, who can see applicants coming in, in real time. Plus, they can add their comments to all of the notes, so the interview and hiring process is really collaborative. Ultimately, we can process a larger volume of information and yet stay organized. We’re not a huge company with big management systems and using Evernote has really helped us! Evernote has completely changed how we do business; we end up hiring more quality people.

Evernote for performance reviews

In addition to being instrumental in our recruiting process, Evernote has also played an important role in the way that we handle performance reviews. We create a note for each team member in Evernote and then refer to the individual’s note during our monthly meeting, adding notes each time. Because everything is in Evernote, multiple people (including myself and a team leader) can edit the note simultaneously; I can have my iPad in the meeting, while the team lead can be taking notes on his/her device at the same time, throughout the conversation. Later, we can share the note with the team member we reviewed so they can have access to all of our feedback.

Here are a few tips to be a better Olympic fan with Evernote:

1. Know the schedule. Don’t miss your favorite event by clipping the Olympic schedule to your Evernote account, where you can access it using any computer or mobile device.
2. Keep track of the medal count. Following your country’s standings? Create a New Note and update it with the latest medal count.
3. Organize a viewing party. Get all of your friends and family together to catch a big event. Use Evernote to create a guest list, clip recipe ideas, as well as inspiration for decorations. Check out our guide to planning an event with Evernote.
4. Follow your favorite athletes and remember the big moments. It’s likely that records will be broken and once-in-a-lifetime stories will unfold. Capture the memories of these games by using the Evernote Web Clipper and Evernote Clearly to clip memorable articles to your Evernote account so you can relive them in the future. Small Business Ambassador Lindsey Holmes is using Evernote to capture various Olympics-related articles already! You can also use the Evernote Web Clipper and Evernote Clearly to clip bios and stats to your Evernote account.
5. Get involved. In London for the games? Use Evernote to plan your daily itinerary. Don’t forget about using Evernote Hello to remember people you meet and the experiences you share together, and Evernote Food to capture the tasty food you eat along the way.
6. Capture the sounds. Got tickets to a game? Pull out your phone and use Evernote’s audio feature to record some of the sounds of the games.
7. Share your memories with friends around the world. Make a public London 2012 notebook. Fill it with your thoughts and share it with friends in other countries.

How are you using Evernote to get into the Olympic spirit?

After you’ve created a new encounter, and added contact information manually or with the new LinkedIn integration, snap a photo of the person’s business card. It will automatically be associated with the encounter and live alongside all of the other useful information you’ve captured.

Since Evernote Hello is part of Evernote, everything you saved about the person, along with the business card, will be available on every phone and computer you use. We’ll even make the text in that business card photo searchable.

If you do this for everyone you meet, you’ll never find yourself with a stack of business cards again. Everything will be in Evernote.

As you create and save items into your Evernote account, we automatically build contextual relationships among them using things like titles, locations, and time.

Here’s an example: let’s say you attended a conference and took notes in Evernote, then used Evernote Hello to remember all the people you met. In the evening, you decided to go to a restaurant that you’d heard about (and clipped into Evernote) with a few of the folks from the conference. At the restaurant, you snapped some photos of your meal using Evernote Food and took a few notes about the experience.

The Power of Related Notes

Now, check out those experiences in Evernote Food and Evernote Hello. Look at your new contacts in Evernote Hello and you’ll be reminded of the meal you shared and all the notes you took at the conference. Look at the meal in Evernote Food and you’ll see everyone’s face and the clipped reviews about the restaurant.

If Evernote is an extension of your memory, Related Notes are the strings that tie your memories together.

The Evernote View

And don’t forget, you can also view everything in your Evernote account, organized and sorted however you like.

Related Notes are currently available in Evernote Food and Evernote Hello. We’re also improving our algorithms to make this feature even more useful.

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They grow up so fast… Just a little over a month ago, we launched Evernote Hello for iPhone, the app that’s designed to help you remember people the way your brain does—visually, chronologically and contextually. Today, we’re releasing the app’s first major update (1.1)!

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We’ve been listening closely to the community, learning what they like and what they don’t about our initial release. For this update, we focused on one very big thing:

• Making every action and interaction in the app faster, easier and more natural

We’re excited about the result. There are over 10 major improvements in this update. Plus, we have a new app icon. Let’s take a look.

Evernote Hello 1.1

We put a lot of work into making our first update to Evernote Hello a major evolution of the app. The most visible change of all is our new app icon. We hope you like our happy little pushpin. The story of the icon’s evolution will be a blog post for another day.

Adding new people with ease
When you tap on the plus (+), you’ll notice that we now offer you three options for capturing information. You can either pass the phone to the person you are meeting, create their profile yourself or pull from the phone’s address book (more on that, below). We’ve streamlined the process based on the option that you select.

Choose contacts from your address book
Continuing in the spirit of making the app faster and easier to use, you can now add people into Evernote Hello right from your address book. When you tap the big plus button, choose the Add from Contacts option. Tapping this option brings up your address book. Select a name and all the information that’s associated with the contact will fill in a new profile. If something is missing, such as a photo, you can quickly snap one.

Search
On the top of the home screen, there is a new magnifying glass button. Tap it to search through your Evernote Hello history by names of people, the places your were, calendar events, email, and more. And that’s not all. The search also looks for matches in your address book, so that you can easily add a person as described above, right from the search list. Just tap on a name and a new profile appears.

Contact Links
We’ve now explained how to get someone from your contacts into Evernote Hello. The other way works, too. Go to a profile and tap on the green “i” next to the person’s name. Then, tap on the address book icon. You’ll be able to either create a new contact or add the information to an existing contact. In either case, Evernote Hello will add a field to the contact information called a Contact Link. The Contact Link connects your address book to the Evernote Hello profile, allowing you to tap on the link and jump from your contact list directly into Evernote Hello. Please note: Contact Links are only created when a contact is added from Evernote Hello to the address book.

Intelligent name detection
Name order differs depending on country, culture and language. In English, the given name comes first, followed by the family name. In many Asian countries, it’s the other way around. Evernote Hello now uses your location and the input language to figure out how the name should be laid out. This is particularly useful if you’re importing an individual from Evernote Hello into your phone’s address book.

Calendar tiles
To make it easier to visually scan the mosaic, we’ve added Calendar Tiles throughout the mosaic to designate chronological breaks. This way, you can swipe through and easily identify when encounters occurred.

Other goodies

There are also a bunch of other improvements worth noting…

• Full-screen photos: Tap on any profile photo to view it in full-screen mode.
• Choose from Camera Roll: When adding your profile photo, you can either take a new one, or choose an image from your Camera Roll.
• Phone number smarts: As you type a phone number, the app will figure out the appropriate formatting based on your location.
• New settings layout: We’ve completely redesigned the Settings that appear when you swipe down on any screen of the app.
• Log out of the app: There’s a new Logout button under the gear option in Settings.
• New language support: Evernote Hello is now available in 17 additional languages.

We’re really excited to bring you this major update. These changes make the app a pleasure to use whether you’re at work or meeting someone new at a coffee shop. Give it a shot and let us know what you think.

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Say ‘Hi’ to Evernote Hello, available for free for iPhone.

Remember people

Evernote Hello is based around the three fundamental ways that our brains actually remember people:

• Faces: What do you look like?
• Time: When did we meet?
• Context: Why did we meet and who else was there?

That’s all there is to it. Whether you’re at a big conference, catching up with people at a coffee shop or joining a meeting in your office conference room, these concepts hold true. Here’s how it comes together.

Adding someone to Hello

When you meet someone new, launch Evernote Hello, tap on the big plus button and hand over your phone. They’ll quickly create a profile and then hand the phone back. Now, you’ll have their name, photo and whatever contact information they wish to share. If you’d prefer not to hand your phone over, just enter this information yourself, but then again, watching someone take pictures of themselves is pretty fun.

If the person enters their email address, then Evernote Hello will automatically send them an email containing your information. This way, the people you meet benefit from you using the app.

The photo
Taking the photo is the coolest part of the process. Tapping the button turns on the front-facing camera and instructs the user to lift the phone to eye level (or higher). Once there, the camera automatically snaps four quick photos. The app uses the photos to lightly animate the individual’s face in the Mosaic (more on that soon).

Encounters
As soon as you add an individual to Evernote Hello, the app automatically creates an Encounter with this person. An Encounter consists of the person’s profile, the location of your meeting and any additional information you’d like to add that will make the event more meaningful for you later. The app lets you attach photos and notes to your encounters.

It will even scan your calendar to anticipate who you might be at the meeting with to make it easier to add them to the app. If you want, you can export a profile to your address book by tapping on the chevron near the person’s name, then tap on the address book icon.

The next time you meet the person, you can add an additional Encounter by tapping on the option at the top of this screen. You can even add new photos of the person, if you’d like. Now you’ll have a running history of every time you’ve met, along with a bunch of useful information to jog your memory.

Related notes from Evernote
This is where things get really interesting. Evernote Hello will automatically display notes made in Evernote or Evernote Food around the same time as your encounter. Say you met someone at a conference (Evernote Hello) and had lunch with them (Evernote Food), all the while taking notes on your laptop (Evernote). The app will show you everything when you view this person in Evernote Hello—even more context.

The Mosaic

Our brains have evolved to think about faces, so we built a face-centric interface called the Mosaic. All of the people that you’ve met are displayed in a chronological, vertically swipeable view. Tap on a face to reveal your encounters with that person.

All synchronized with Evernote

All of your Evernote Hello entries are synchronized with Evernote so that you can view them from any device or computer. This means that you can search for people inside of Evernote. When you’re trying to find a particular note that you created during a meeting with someone, you can search for them and then look for notes created around the same time. More context!

For the time being, the notes created by Evernote Hello are read-only inside of Evernote. If you want to make changes, view the encounters and people from Evernote Hello.

Settings

Here are few nice things hidden away in the Settings area that you should be aware of. To view Settings, swipe down on the Mosaic screen.

• Go to Settings to make changes to your own profile
• Tap on the gear in your profile to create a custom greeting that appears when you hand over your phone
• Link Evernote Hello to your calendars and it will build more information into your encounters
• You can also choose whether or not the app will automatically send an email to the person, sharing your contact information with them

Memory and shared experiences

The Evernote Hello approach is focused on visuals and narrative. For example, if you’re trying to remember the name of someone you met at a big company meeting, tap on the face of anyone else you met at the same time. That will show you the encounter along with all the other people that you met together. By exploring these shared experiences, you’re able to find the people you want and strengthen your own memory.

Enjoy!

We’re really excited about this new app. It’s focused on solving a problem that we deal with every single day. We hope you like it.