‘Tips and uses’ Blog Posts

What’s the toughest thing to remember? For me, it’s websites. Everyday, I visit tons of sites: blogs, shopping, news, recipes, and travel. It’s too much. I’ve actually stopped bookmarking because it’s so hard to find anything in the sea of links, and when I do go back, the page is often gone or changed. Since Evernote is a single place for all of your memories, (websites you visit are memories too, you know) we thought we could do better.

Introducing, the new Evernote Web Clipper, which gives you the ease and simplicity of bookmarking, but more importantly, also gives you context by saving the text, images, and links, including the source URL, right into your Evernote account. Once the page, or part of a page, is saved into your account, you can tag, organize, search, browse, edit, and remember it forever.

I use the web clipper when I’m researching vacations, looking for a good recipe, or when I run across neat technical articles. With a single click, I have the content saved. So, even if the page goes away, my memory of it doesn’t.

Most importantly, because the web clipper is part of Evernote, you can have more than just copies of web pages. You can remember all sort of stuff such as, pictures, personal notes, doodles on napkins, and anything else, all accessible online, offline, and from your phone.

Here’s a short video where Andrew shows us how to install and use the web clipper:

Here’s another idea. Find a recipe online and clip it into Evernote. Then, when you’re at the store, bring the note up on your phone using Evernote Mobile Web: instant shopping list.

A little technical detail: You don’t need to reinstall the bookmarklet (the little browser button that says “Clip to Evernote”) if you already have it. It automatically upgrades to the latest version. Otherwise, go on and install it. Just drag or add the green clipper button below to your link bar.

Now, get out there and start clipping!

I use Evernote to collect all of the interesting things I see, wherever I am. For me, a big part of collecting is sharing, so I tend to make a lot of public Evernote notebooks (see: publishing notes). We recently added a new option that makes sharing a lot more flexible: The Evernote Widget.

Here is a widget of funny things I’ve found on the internet:

Think of the Evernote Widget as a portable version of a public notebook. You can create a widget from any public notebook and embed it directly into your blog, Facebook, and MySpace pages. Here is what you can do with it:

• Share notes from any public notebook
• Display thumbnails, titles, and links to the notes
• Search right from the widget, even for text within images

Get your own

Follow these steps to get your widget:

1. Go to a public notebook (yours or someone else’s)
2. Click the ‘Get Widget’ link beneath the search bar
3. Click ‘Add to Facebook’ or click the code to copy it
4. Paste the code into your blog or anywhere that takes HTML

Share your memories as they happen

Here’s how to set up the Evernote Widget to instantly share everything from mobile snapshots to web clips to audio notes as soon as you create them:

1. Make your default notebook public
2. Create a widget of that notebook
3. Embed the widget on your blog, Facebook, or MySpace page.

Now, whenever you create and sync new notes, your friends will instantly see them.

More sharing options are on the way. Stay tuned.

When it comes to snapping photos with your phone, the fewer clicks the better. Well, wouldn’t it be great if you could snap a photo and have it automatically go into your Evernote account? No emailing. Just snap and you’re done. Well, you can and here’s how.

Those of you out there with Windows Mobile phones have it pretty good, since Evernote for Windows Mobile will automatically send snapshots and audio right into your account.

But, since many of you don’t have Windows Mobile phones we thought you might want to give ShoZu a shot. ShoZu is an application that can be set to automatically send snapshots to your Evernote email address as soon as you snap the photo, and ShoZu works with a ton of different phones.

This video shows how ShoZu and Evernote work together.

Get ShoZu

1. Go to www.ShoZu.com, and click on Get ShoZu
2. Find your phone in the list of supported phones
3. Create an account and follow the installation instructions
4. Once installed, select Send to Email and configure ShoZu to send to your Evernote email address
5. Select Evernote and go to the Sending setting menu and set it to “Auto Send”

That’s it. Now, go snapshot crazy.

If you have any questions, check out the ShoZu support site.

We asked our Twitter followers to tell us how they use Evernote. Here are some of the responses. Many thanks to everyone that tweeted!

Work

• jvmoore1: Evernote has been great for IT work. I research something at my house or in the office and am able to access it on the web.
• blloyd: Snapping photos of whiteboards at meetings with my phone.
• PhoneTrips: My friend and I run a weekly podcast at whatsnewisold.blogspot.com. I put items in Evernote all week tagged “podcast.”
• ajfortin: Recently put screenshots of a health care conference live-tweets in public notebook so people can search for speaker comments.
• juliegomoll: Using it for planning new business - notes on vendors, products, ideas, etc. and for fodder for future blog posts.
• mmaslowski: I use it for collecting scraps ideas and outline specification of new apps I’ve been working on.
• RuudHein: Clipping, maintaining database of information retrieval knowledge for www.searchenginepeople.com.
• okwichu: Keeping track of work tasks, notes, and rough time tracking.
• WickedGood : I’m using it to create and manage show notes for my podcast: http://www.extra-points.com/.
• normc: Evernote has cleaned my office, my desk is no longer full of scraps of paper.
• bhugh36: I use it mainly for work stuff because I can easily sync between my Mac at home & my PC at work.

Personal

• aimeeisdrawing: I’ve been using it for collecting things I need to return to on the web, better than bookmarks. My boyfriend uses it for school.
• BobQ: For clipping recipes, doing research for projects, keeping multiple project-related lists, and for snapping images on my cellphone.
• kevinfrey: Using Evernote gloriously to be a smarter wine consumer. I can’t remember yesterday, let alone the name of the last wine bottle I drank.
• gcmandrake: I use Evernote for keeping track of photography ideas and notes. (I also use it for work & home.)
• shaneblyth: I use it for gathering info at home on tech topics, storing business cards, etc.
• xstealx: I use it as a note-to-self and reminders mostly but I intend to use it for work.
• zemote: I am using Evernote for work & personal. It has become my bucket for clipping everything!!!
• mjohnson16: I’m using Evernote for work notes, church projects, research, reminders, and general mayhem moments.

School

• LtFielding: I’m using it for school.
• lrei: I’m using Evernote for college notes, personal projects, planning trips, notes for writing my blog and general personal notes.
• iamhannah: School and work. I use it for my radio show to be organized.
• richgould: Using Evernote to help with my son’s 3rd grade project on chickens. Finding everything we can: pics, info, facts, etc. It’s great!
• whoisvince: I’ve been primarily using Evernote to store any and all info about scholarships.

Travel

• molgar: I am using Evernote to collect info for my next trip: New Zealand!!
• barron: I am using Evernote to plan our summer vacation. It keeps all my notes in one convenient place.

Organization and productivity

• ChrisWarren: I use it as my mobile @rnd folder for GTD. Marvelous!! I now have ink notes too.
• levibethune: I track my paystubs, tax forms and bills in Evernote, as well a separate notebook of beer and wine bottle labels.
• androvski: I use it for all my geeky stuff, reminders, ideas, to-do lists, bookmarks, school stuff, etc. All my life is within Evernote.
• lbcapt: Really loving the app - using it on Mac, PC, and web to keep track of reminders, future blog posts, etc… Great job!!
• Kforbriger: EVERYTHING… keeping my online world organized on Evernote now.

Research

• SherylSisk: I’m using it to collect, research, and process “blog fodder” for my blogs.
• joeyinteractive: We are the developers of Desktoptopia (http://www.desktoptopia.com), we use Evernote to capture new ideas and artists we discover.
• shaneblyth: I use it for gathering info at home on tech topics, storing business cards, etc.
• leanda: I use Evernote for keeping scrap books of design ideas and inspiration - type, colour, pattern, shape etc.
• sharpstick: Keeping political news articles to refer to later on in the year.

Shopping

• pattyman: I keep track of things I want to follow up on Craigslist, and also comics I see in the shop that I want to pick up next time.
• duncanmike: My wife takes cell phone pics of fashions in mags/stores > Evernote to create a “looks to recreate” reference.

Say you’re using Evernote to plan a trip. You’ve been clipping webpages of hotels and restaurants, typing itineraries, snapping photos of your travel documents (just in case). Now, you want to give all of your travel buddies access to this information. Evernote lets you do that.

By default, everything you create in Evernote is private, but you can easily publish any notebook to the web. Here are instructions for how to do this using the web and Mac clients. This is coming very soon to Windows. For now, Windows users can publish their notebooks using Evernote Web.

1. Select the notebook you want to publish
2.
- Web: Click on the Actions dropdown and select Settings
- Mac: Cmd + click on the notebook and select Notebook Settings
3. Click Publish
Optional step: Add a description
4. Copy the URL (don’t click the URL yet, the notebook isn’t saved)
5. Click OK or Save
6. Mac only: Click Sync

That’s it. That URL is now publicly available, so send it to anyone, even subscribe to the RSS feed. Stay tuned for more publishing and sharing options in the very near future.

Here’s a notebook I made during a recent trip to the Napa Valley.

Do you have an interesting public notebook? Post a link in the comments.

Visual step-by-step: Evernote Web

Visual step-by-step: Evernote for Mac

Lots of Mac users out there love Skitch. It’s a great application for image editing, screen grabbing, and annotations. In this short video, we show how easy it is to use Skitch with Evernote. Plus, you get to see the Evernote recognition technology in action.

If you’re in the mood for some takeout in San Francisco, here’s the public notebook of take out menus that we showed in the video.

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