Evernote

Evernote hits 100,000,000 users

Evernote, the note-taking web service that I’ve praised several times, has hit a rather substantial milestone – 100 million users. Since there are actually multiple applications and services with a significant user overlap, there are a few ways to look at the numbers. Check out their blog post that provides a few details.

I use it for all kinds of things – meeting notes, technical specs storage, bookmarking and website clipping, and even as a searchable archive for this blog. It is vital for me at work, at home, and on the move (specifically, offline folders for the mobile devices are godsent when traveling abroad).

To the Evernote team: thank you guys! You are amazing and your service is truly awesome. Keep it up and make it even better.

Major upgrade to Evernote Clipper for Google Chrome

I am a huge fan of Evernote for a few years now, and one of the reasons behind my support is the Clipper. Instead of just saving the bookmarks the old (Delicious?) way, Evernote allows to save full or partial pages. With this, even if the original site removes content or disappears completely, you’d still have the clip in your notes.

A couple of days ago Evernote announced that they are releasing an updated version of the Clipper for Google Chrome. Here is the quick video with some new features.

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It looks like they’ve merged in some of the functionality of their other applications and browser extensions, such as Clearly – a browser extension that can cleanup noisy pages leaving just the content of the article to read, and Skitch – a simple annotations and graphical editing tool. While it sounds complicated, the functionality actually makes sense.

There are also some other new features, such as setting reminder on the note directly from the Clipper (rather than from the Evernote), and a Share button. When all is combined, it makes Evernote into a really powerful too. For example, emailing someone an annotated screenshot is now a quick task of just a few clicks.

Very, very handy tool!

Happy birthday, Evernote!

Evernote is one of the most useful web services out there. I am using it daily for two and half years, and I’m also a subscriber to their Premium service, which makes it possible to have off-line notebooks on mobile. Today, Evernote celebrates its fifth birthday.

Huge thanks and congratulations to the whole team on this huge milestone. I hope you guys will continue doing what you are doing and bring us more handy features. Keep it up and happy birthday!

RSS + IFTTT + Evernote = Backup

This post is just a test. I’ve created a new personal recipe using IFTTT service, which will pull the RSS feed of this blog, and create a new note in a specific notebook of my Evernote account. This is not recommended as a backup solution of course (you should do a proper filesystem and database backups), but if it works as good as I imagine, then I can use it for part of my RSS aggregation. For example, I follow some blogs that I’d like to save most of the posts, but not all, and then search through those. With a similar recipe, RSS feeds can be pushed into my Evernote account, and I can then just delete those notes that I don’t need.

Anyways, if you haven’t tried out IFTTT or Evernote, I strongly recommend both. Those services are magical.