Here are 3 tips to make it a day that special person in your life won’t soon forget.

Pick a Spectacular Restaurant

Before you make the reservations, do some research and collect it all in Evernote.

Ask for recommendations from friends, consult review sites, and check out menus, then save your favorites to your Evernote account with the Evernote Web Clipper. You can also use Evernote Food to discover new restaurants. The built in location-based restaurant and cuisine search makes it easy to select a restaurant close to you or find one that serves they type of food you’re looking for. Once you make those reservations, email your confirmation into your Evernote account, so that it’s accessible on your mobile device in case you need to pull it up once you arrive at the restaurant.

Plan a Getaway

If your plans involve a romantic weekend trip or a getaway to a special location, use Evernote to keep all the details straight. Research hotels ahead of time and clip them with Evernote so that when it comes time to book you’ll know exactly where to choose. Save Web Clips of maps, guides or any other important information you might need, then annotate them right in Skitch to easily remember detailed information you’ll need once you arrive at your destination.

Pro tip: Make a to-do list of things to pack. You can check things off as you go to be sure all the details are accounted for and a forgotten corkscrew or umbrella doesn’t derail your day.

Find the Perfect Gift

Hopefully you’ve been paying attention and taking note of the hints your significant other has been dropping throughout the year and saving them in Evernote. If not, it’s still not too late to look online for gift ideas from their favorite stores or websites. Another great trick is to keep your eye out for gift guides from your favorite retailers and blogs; these can be useful when you need some inspiration or guidance.

Pro tip: If you’re out shopping with your significant other and come across something, snap a photo in Evernote so you can go back and get it later. Add it to a specific “gift” notebook or use a tag so you can search for it later. You can even use Evernote to search for text in the image, so finding it is never hard.

Cook a Special Meal

Show them how much you care by creating a special meal at home. Even if you’re not an expert chef, you can use Evernote Food to make it look like you are. Browse through recipes right inside Evernote Food or clip them from websites, then make a shopping list of ingredients in Evernote and check them off on your phone. When it comes time to actually cook the meal, pull up the recipe on your phone or tablet and follow the directions.

Looking for more ways to use Evernote this Valentine’s Day? Check out our 8 Great Ways Couples Can Use Evernote Shared Notebooks.

Dolphin, the popular mobile browser, recently released a new version for iPad that integrates Evernote’s Web Clipper technology. This means, for the first time, you can seamlessly clip web pages to Evernote from your iPad, and get the same quality experience as when you use the Evernote Web Clipper on desktop browsers. Add that to Dolphin’s other features, such as tabbed browsing, bookmarks, and customizable gesture-based navigation, and you have a great browsing experience on your iPad.

Download Dolphin now in the Evernote Trunk.

Clip on the Go

Whether waiting for your plane at the airport or sitting in a coffee shop, you can look up whatever is on your mind, and clip it to Evernote to reference later. Anything from travel information to discounts you discover to information for a research project can be clipped, and Dolphin will format it properly in Evernote where it will be searchable and accessible. Just as with the Evernote Web Clipper, you can specify the destination notebook, and add tags or comments. Additionally, taking advantage of the iPad’s touchscreen, you can annotate your Web Clips to note anything you don’t want to forget.

Working Closely Together

This is the first time a partner has integrated Evernote’s Web Clipper technology to provide the best clipping experience on iPad. Previously, Dolphin had an Evernote plugin available only on Android, but Dolphin heard from the Evernote community that they wanted the full Evernote Web Clipper experience on iPad. “We listened to their feedback, and worked closely with Evernote’s Dev Team to make it happen, and we are very happy with the result,” said  Edith Yeung, Head of Corporate Strategy at Dolphin. Working together with our partners to create the features and experiences that our users really want is the kind of integration we strive for, and the Dolphin Browser for iPad is a great example.

Enter Our Swag Giveaway!

To celebrate the integration, we’re giving away two gift packs that include Evernote and Dolphin t-shirts, a Dolphin notebook, and Evernote stickers. We’ll randomly select one person from our community of beta testers who helped polish the integration, and one from those who comment on this blog post. For a chance to win on the blog, please leave a comment by noon February 15th, with the hashtag #Dolphin, and let us know why you like Dolphin.

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PDF Clipping

If you spend a lot of time on the web, then you frequently encounter PDFs. The latest Evernote Web Clipper for Safari, lets you save those PDFs into your Evernote account with a single click of the Evernote Web Clipper icon. This is great for everything from product manuals to research to classwork. You can also use this feature to grab a bill or bank statement that you’re viewing in your browser—perfect for record-keeping.

For the best PDF clipping experience, make sure you have Adobe Reader installed.

Evernote Business Tags

Evernote Web Clipper for Safari works with Evernote Business, letting you clip interesting pages into Business Notebooks. Now, the Web Clipper also autocompletes your tags, so that adding something and organizing it is easier than ever. Simply start typing a tag, and you’ll see suggestions appear based on tags that already exist in your account.

And more…

This update also adds Related Results support for two Korean search engines (Naver and Daum), along with numerous behind-the-scenes improvements.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

Erin Souder loves to create and is the voice behind the daily DIY and home style blog, House of Earnest. Erin uses Evernote for all aspects of her blog; everything from capturing furniture inspiration to sharing unique DIY ideas. We’re excited to welcome her as our newest Evernote Design Ambassador. She’s written before about all the ways Evernote helps her manage her workflow and ideas for House of Earnest here, and today she’s sharing a few more.

Evernote for Organizing Creativity

My blog, House of Earnest, is where I share all things home-related that inspire me. I’ve been using Evernote for almost four years; I started using it to catalog pictures that I took and wanted to add some notes to. As my blog following grew, I got really busy and it’s helped manage all of my creative inspiration.

Above is a screenshot of my ‘homepage’ which shows my last several saved notes.  It’s laid out kind of like an email inbox, but each note shows a snippet of a photo, which is so helpful for finding something visual.  If I’m looking for “gold” things in a product round up, I can scan the thumbnails and easily pick out gold-hued items from all of the notes I’ve saved.

Remembering My Best Ideas
In addition to visually scanning notes, however, you can add information such as tags to make your notes (in my case they’re mostly photos) even easier to sort through. One photo might get ten different tags, but it helps me to recover the idea later on.  I use Evernote and the Web Clipper to capture inspiration wherever it strikes me, then later I can search by keyword to find exactly what I’m looking for.

Another amazing detail? The Web Clipper saves all of the URLs of clipped images and webpages for me. I love to give recommendations about unique pieces and fun products on the blog, and one of the hardest things for me (in life and in blogging) is remembering where I saw something. Now it’s easy for me to recall some of the more obscure finds that I may feature.

Connect with Erin and learn more about all our Evernote Ambassadors by checking out our Community page!

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Whether you’re doing research or reading a product manual, you’ll often find yourself with a PDF open in your browser. Saving that PDF to your computer and then placing it into a useful location is not a simple or pleasant experience. With the Web Clipper’s new PDF clipping feature, that’s all about to change.

When you view a PDF in your browser, simply click the Web Clipper icon. You can assign a destination notebook, tags and some additional notes. That’s all. The PDF will be placed into your Evernote account and synched so that you can view it from any computer or device where Evernote is installed.

Better with Evernote Premium

Evernote Premium users get even more out of this new capability by using PDF Clipping together with the Premium PDF Search feature, which makes any of the clipped PDFs searchable. Get Evernote Premium »

• Name: Captain Daniel Ogren
• Location: Potomac, Maryland
• Profession: Captain at Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services

Bio

Daniel Ogren is a Captain at Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services in Potomac, Maryland. His primary job is working for the fire department; however, he also heads up response and disaster management for his unit. On the side, he runs his own photography business. Daniel uses Evernote for everything from organizing procedures for disaster response to running his photography business.

I use Evernote, Everywhere

• Windows
• Android Phone
• iPhone
• iPad
• Web Clipper

I use Evernote for…Coordinating and Planning a Disaster Relief Effort

I use Evernote every day, both in my personal and professional life. I’m trying to go completely paperless, so everything from tax documents to receipts gets scanned with my Fujitsu ScanSnap and gets sent to my Evernote account. Evernote has also proven to be hugely helpful for my work in disaster response.

I’m active in coordinating local disaster response efforts, and am also a member of the FEMA Task Force. I first started using Evernote for disaster response back when Hurricane Irene descended upon us. As the person in charge of safety for our local task force, I’m responsible for a lot of planning and management. I work with structural engineers and hazardous material folks to make sure that a disaster scene is promptly and safely overseen. From the moment that something happens (an earthquake, hurricane, terrorist attack) I begin gathering information to get an idea of the scope of our job. I use Evernote to capture and manage all of this information.

Creating a Disaster Relief Plan in Evernote

Whenever a disaster occurs, I usually set up a new notebook with the name of that event. From there, I can use a combination of Notebook Stacks and tags to keep my research, communications, and reference documents organized and easy to find.

I use the Evernote Web Clipper to clip weather reports, research information on chemicals and hazardous materials, and begin contacting people in the service. Evernote is my central hub of information: I clip all my research to it, store our standard operating procedures in a Shared Notebook, and forward important emails and correspondences to a notebook for that specific event. All of this information is available on my iPhone and iPad, and I can even store it offline and not have to worry about an Internet connection [Offline Notebooks are a Premium-only feature].

Creating separate notebooks, both private and shared, for different events as well as for general topics makes it easy to distribute information quickly to the right people. For example, I can selectively share notebooks with volunteers who are working on a certain event, or give access to standard operating procedures to everyone in my organization. This saves me an enormous amount of time and keeps me focused on the task at hand.

Evernote for News Monitoring

Since my job requires me to be on top of what’s happening in the world, I use Evernote to help me manage an inflow of information. I subscribe to federal government sites like the National Hurricane center, and follow a number of news-oriented Twitter feeds, all of which are configured to automatically send information straight to my Evernote account.

Evernote as a Reference Hub

For general information on urban search and rescue, as well as documents, manuals, PDFs, and training documents, I create separate notebooks that serve as an electronic encyclopedia that I can access from anywhere. Many of these documents can be referred to anytime, and some may come in handy someday! For example, I once had to do research on a UH60 Blackhawk helicopter. I wasn’t familiar with this aircraft, so ended up doing a bunch of research online, clipping specifications, pictures and operating procedures to my general notebook. It was useful for the Hurricane Irene effort and now lives in my Evernote account forever.

Before Evernote, I was collecting information from different places; I didn’t have a central, easy-to-access and searchable place for all of this information. The longer I use Evernote, the better it works for me. Every time I deal with a new disaster it takes me less and less time to hit the ground running.

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?