Evernote Progress
Thank you for the suggestions on how to use Evernote. I am finding good uses for the app.
I’m a little disappointed that I don’t seem to be able to drag the web clipper to the taskbar on Safari in the iPad, rendering all but personal note creation on Evernote in the iPad useless. I can, however, record a note on the iPad (it has a built-in microphone), so that’s potentially pretty slick.
As I may have mentioned elsewhere (comments, maybe?), I have saved my favorite recipes from TamboCooks! and healthyrecipebox into notes and dragged them to a Recipes notebook. I used pulled them up on the iPad last night to make dinner.
Now, if I have something on the web I want to save, I don’t necessarily bookmark it (but I might), I click on the elephant head icon, clean up the page a little, and save it to Evernote. Every so often, I’ll go to Evernote and file the clippings in their appropriate notebook. This way, I have all my clippings on all my devices. I haven’t made my bookmarks that mobile yet (although, I believe there are apps that will do that).
Perhaps it’s a little funny, but I haven’t found anything to file into my original set of folders I created yet, but I have squirreled away a potential presidential candidate’s views, information about a piece of software I may be interested in, and an Engadget description of the evolution of wireless generational designations. There’s a couple other things I can’t remember at the moment, but I think I’m off to a good start.
It’s a free app. Unless you need more than 60MB a month or offline notebooks for your mobile device, that should work well. If you want to upload up to 1GB, you’ll want to investigate a Premium account for $5 a month or $45 a year.
Oh, is that why there’s an elephant head up there? I haven’t played with web clippings yet, but I should. For instance, the hero of DG4 uses a very unique gun and I have the wiki page link in Scrivener but I don’t use Scrivener anymore. I should put that into Evernote.
I guess there’s actually a book you can buy that teaches you how to maximize your usage of Evernote, but…yeah, I don’t care that much. I’ll muddle along. 🙂
Yep, when you’re on a page you want to save, click that elephant’s head and it will bring the page up in a note (without all the great HTML formatting — delete the stuff you don’t want to reduce clutter). The example you’ve given would be perfect. Well slick.
I started clicking on the elephant’s head in the Mac task bar, but that’s only good for either a screen shot or selecting a part of the screen. I wanted to capture a page that extended beyond the screen and I couldn’t do it. I tried the web-clipper, and it worked great. I only wish I could figure out how to get it into Safari on the iPad (it presumably self-installs on computer versions of Safari but not the iPad version). Sigh.