TEC #022 – How to web clip from the iPhone

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Hello,

One of the most powerful Evernote feature is the ability to web clip an article from a web site. All the major browsers have plug-ins published by Evernote to do so, unfortunately such a thing does not exist for Safari Mobile on the iPhone or any other smartphone for that matter.

Here are several methods to web clip from your smartphone:

Personnaly I use Ever Web Clipper because it is faster to use (1 step instead of 2).

EverWebClipper screenshots

Note that this app is also available for Androïd here.

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #021 – How to send article from iOS Reeder to Evernote when offline

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Hello,

In this podcast episode I explain you how to send an article from Reeder which is my iPhone RSS reader of choice to my Evernote account even if you are offline.

I do most of my reading of my RSS feeds deep down in the parisian subway system with no data access whatsoever while I commute to work.

Every morning before I leave home I launch the Reeder app on my phone so it can load all the articles including images on my phone before I head out to the subway. Sometimes I read an article I want to keep for future reference, here’s the methode I use to send it to my Evernote account even if I have NO data connection.

  1. share an article in the Reeder iPhone app
  2. choose the mail sharing option
  3. put your Evernote mail address as the To
  4. (optionnaly) add @notebook_name and #tag at the end of the subject

Whenever your iPhone will get the data connection it will send the pending message(s) automatically.

Of course this can be done with any iOS RSS reader app as long as you can share an article by mail (which most of them do if not all as it is a standard feature).

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #020 – Pinterest or Evernote? Two different needs

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Hello,

Often people compare Pinterest and Evernote when I think they actually answer different needs.

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Pinterest is a visual social bookmarking tool. So it’s going to be great to collect visual info from the Internet and share it with other people. When I am on Pinterest it’s like I am browsing   a never ending magazine of glossy pictures on theme I am interested in, if I see one which interests me I like and/or repin it. If I am surfing the Internet and I see a cool picture of a guitar I might pin it to one of my board to share have it in this visual bookmarking tool which is Pinterest.

The power of Pinterest is that I get to see what other people put in boards with themes I like.

Evernote is your personal memory in the cloud. All the pieces of information you need in your every day life, personnal or professionnal can be put in Evernote for later reference, processing or modification. You are not going to put pics of your business cards or of all your receipts on Pinterest!

If you only manipulate visual material such as pictures and photos which you share with other then Pinterest is THE tool for you.

If you want to not only manipulate visual material but also text, personnal notes, web clipped articles, sounds, files, then Evernote is THE tool for you.

A good tweet from @mikomercer to summarize: I use #Evernote for projects I want to keep private & #Pinterest as an inspiration board

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #019 – Paris Evernote Meetup – March 16th 2012

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TEC-019-20120409.mp3 6min 12s

Hello,

Here is a bullet point summary of the Paris Evernote Meetup which took place on March 16th 2012:

  • We were about 10 people.
  • It took place at Café Beaubourg in the center of Paris from 7pm until 10:30pm
  • I did a short presentation of myself to introduce me, what I do and start the round table discussion
  • Everybody introduced themselves and explained how they used Evernote
  • This started plenty of lively discussions so it took a long time to go through everybody!
  • At the end we discussed what we would love to to for the next meetup with a more structured part with short presentation then an open discussion part like the previous three Paris meetups.
  • Of course everybody was very pleased with the goodies I gave them on Evernote’s behalf.

Non-exhaustive list of subjects discussed during the meetup:

  • Notes organization strategies (one notebook and many tags, multi-notebooks and no tag, etc.)
  • Uses of the different methods to input data into Evernote
  • Differences between Premium and free
  • Notes visualization
  • And many more!

Feature requests in no particular order:

  • Linux client
  • Archive feature
  • Highighter
  • Markdown support
  • Even better writing recognition

Until the next time happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #018 – Eric’s feedback on his many uses of Evernote

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TEC-018-20120324.mp3 10min 53s

Hello,

I am pleased to present you with a listener feedback, Eric (aka @esausse2), who shares with us his many uses of Evernote.

Before Eric’s feedback I do a sort summary of the Paris Evernote meetup we had last week. It was a great meeting with around 10 passionate users of Evernote. We shared use cases and tips&tricks from 7pm until 10pm, it was great fun. Hopefully we will have another meetup soon with a more structured approach while keeping the open and friendly atmosphere. Stay tuned!

Regarding Eric’s question on how to use tags and notebooks to organize your notes, check episode #003 of the show where I shared some ideas of that subject.

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #017 – Sync problem on the mobile app

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Hello,

It happens VERY rarely that I have sync problem on my iPhone,.

Here is a list of the things I check or do when it happens:

  • Check the Internet connection of your device
  • Check Evernote status blog http://status.evernote.com/ and the Twitter account @evernotestatus
  • Check the activity log in the Settings
  • If there is an offending note shown in the log, copy/paste the content in a new one and delete the bad note and don’t forget to empty the trash
  • You can also force quit the app on iOS and relaunch it (you should not lose any data even if it is not yet synced)
  • Contact the official support, they are pretty fast (you can’t even do it via chat if you’re Premium)

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #016 – Audio feedback on GTD from John

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Hello,

For the first time on the Channel, an audio feedback from a listener!

John sent me this feedback GTD in Evernote and it’s the perfect follow-up episode to number #015 where you heard Daniel Gold interview about his book on the same subject.

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John mentions a link in his feedback which is not working anymore as he moved all his content to Google+, here are the correct links:

Setting up Evernote as Your GTD Dashboard
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100189201683309462509/posts/CKnu7DQ6uNj

Paper & Evernote
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100189201683309462509/posts/acBi3TCnTwk

It’s All Been Tagged
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100189201683309462509/posts/h9pmXqqkovK

Thanks a ton Jon.

Hopefully others listeners will record an audio feedback to share their experience, a trick or just ask a question.

No need to have a fancy microphone and computer, all the smartphones (and even some dumbphones too!) have an internal application to record your voice and mail the result. Do that and mail your recordings at TheElephantChannel@gmail.com.

Until the next time, happy evernoting.

Pierre.

TEC #015 – Daniel Gold interview (author of e-book about GTD and Evernote)

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Shownotes:

Hello,

I am super happy to present you with a Skype interview I did of Daniel Gold who wrote an excellent e-book about implementing the GTD method in Evernote: Evernote: the unofficial guide to capture everything and getting things done.

I am a HUGE fan of the GTD method which I have been using for more than 5 years. I still have many progress to make to become a true GTD Ninja and that’s one of the reason why I was really curious to read Daniel’s book and talk with him about it.

Here is Daniel’s book:

EVERNOTE®: THE UNOFFICIAL EBOOK BY DANIEL GOLD The unofficial guide to capturing everything and getting things done

Click here to buy the book

Trust me, if you are into GTD and Evernote, the 5$ you will pay for the e-book are NOTHING compared to the value you will get from reading it.

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #014 – Evernote vs Dropbox: why choose?

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Shownotes:

Hello,

Very often I see people on Twitter asking if they should use Evernote or Dropbox which is a weird question for me as I think they really complement each other really well. Let me explain.

  • Dropbox is great to store documents and to have them available anywhere as well as having many people accessing them. It’s your hardrive in the cloud.
  • Evernote is great at storing and sharing information you can access from anywhere with very powerful tools to search this information (via notebooks, tagging or using the internal search engine). Evernote is your memory in the cloud.
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Dropbox stores documents when Evernote stores information. They complement each other very well

Practical examples:

  • To store all your business cards pictures, Evernote is going to shine because of its OCR feature.
  • To store a big 150Mb Powerpoint file and access it and share with other people, Dropbox is your best option.

Remember that a note in Evernote is 50Mb max when Premium (25 Mb when Free).

So why choose! Use both at what they are best.

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #013 – Joseph Tame interview

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TEC-013-20120113.mp3 (10min 36s)

Shownotes:

Hello,

Here is another interview done at LeWeb, an Internet conference which took place in Paris from the 7th to the 9th of December 2011. I had the pleasure to meet with Joseph Tame (@tamegoeswild - josephta.me) who was a speaker at the conference and who will share the use he has for Evernote in all his crazy adventures around running.

If you are a geek and into Apple stuff, you probably saw the image below when Steve Jobs died in 2011, Joseph did that.

Here is the YouTube video recording of Joseph keynote during LeWeb, it’s really worth watching:

As a marathon runner and über-geek myself it was very cool for me to chat with Joseph.

Until the next time, happy evernoting,

Pierre.