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Productivity Tip: Using specialized lists for specific use cases

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 7th, 2013)

It's time for this week's Productivity Tips column. While I use OmniFocus for just about everything, there are times when I prefer other task managers to handle certain things. Many productivity gurus advise against using more than one tool to list tasks, but I don't like putting short-term list ...

Penultimate update adds smarter notebook titles and improved Evernote sync

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2013)

Penultimate (free), the iOS handwritten note-taking app that was snapped up by Evernote just about a year ago, was updated to version 4.1 today. What's different? If you connect the app to Evernote, it will now suggest notebook titles based on your location and events that you have on your ...

Skitch update (iOS and Mac) includes PDF annotation, stamps

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th, 2013)

If you are already a Skitch user and happen to have an Evernote Premium account, a new update now allows you to annotate PDFs using the app. Once you open a PDF in Skitch you'll get a 30-day trial of the premium PDF annotation feature. All users see a new way to add graphics to documents in ...

AppleScripting OmniFocus > Send completed task report to Evernote 2

by Ben Waldie (Apr 15th, 2013)

In February, I provided instructions for using AppleScript to send completed task reports from OmniFocus to Evernote. The script was quite well-received by readers, and I've had numerous requests for enhancements. This post provides an updated version of the script, which includes a number of ...

Bubble Browser for Evernote shows tags as bubbles

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 21st, 2013)

Bubble Browser, now available on the Mac App Store, is a new tool to assist in visualizing Evernote data. In particular, it excels at showing you tagged info, and presents larger bubbles corresponding to the frequency of use for a given tag. It's fast and easy to use, and I had a lot of fun ...

Evernote Food update integrates OpenTable, Foursquare

by Steven Sande (Mar 19th, 2013)

It was just a few short months ago that Evernote Food was updated to version 2.0, providing a way to save and search recipes, look for nearby restaurants, and share details about food experiences. Today Evernote updated Evernote Food to version 2.1, with even more goodness including integration ...

Evernote forces password reset after "suspicious activity"

by Michael Rose (Mar 3rd, 2013)

The drumbeat of corporate security issues pounds on, with hybrid cloud/local notekeeping service Evernote reporting this weekend that its internal security team "discovered and blocked suspicious activity" aimed at sensitive areas of Evernote's service. Although neither billing information nor ...

Bug in latest Evernote for iOS update causes the app to crash

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2013)

Evernote pushed out a big update (version 5.2) yesterday that's causing problems for a growing number of customers. According to Evernote, some users are reporting a bug in the update that causes the app to crash at launch. We are aware that some users are experiencing crashes on upgrade. ...

AppleScripting OmniFocus > Send Completed Task Report to Evernote

by Ben Waldie (Feb 18th, 2013)

I've mentioned before that OmniFocus is my task manager of choice. Each morning, I pull up a list of scheduled tasks for the day, and focus on getting them done. In OmniFocus, I've set up Perspectives (saved window states) for both Due tasks and Completed tasks. What I really want, however, is ...

Evernote updates Hello with business card scanning, makes Penultimate free

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2013)

It's a big day for Evernote in the iOS App Store. The developer updated both its Hello contacts manager and Penultimate, the handwriting app it acquired last year. Hello was updated to include business card scanning, a feature that makes creating and updating contacts a breeze. There's also ...

Moxtra app for iPad gives you binders full of shareable content

by Michael Rose (Jan 29th, 2013)

In the ultra-cloud, post-PC era, we do not lack for ways to share our stuff. Got a presentation deck to show? You can go full-on web meeting with Webex, GoToMeeting, Join.me or Fuze Meeting; to create the content and share it smoothly, Slideshare or Sliderocket will serve, as would either ...

AppleScripting Evernote > Embedded Image Scaler

by Ben Waldie (Jan 28th, 2013)

I'm a big fan of Evernote. I use it for archiving ideas, writing articles / blog posts and lots more. I often insert screenshots and other large images into my notes. Screenshots can be pretty big, and I usually don't want giant images filling up my notes. I keep wishing Evernote offered a way to ...

Dolphin web browser becomes the first to integrate Evernote Web Clipper

by Mike Wehner (Jan 17th, 2013)

If you're fan of Evernote on your desktop and mobile devices, but prefer the browsing experience of the third-party Dolphin app for iOS, today is your lucky day. In a new update to the popular browser, Dolphin is adding Evernote Web Clipper integration, allowing you to capture and annotate ...

Evernote Food 2.0 delivers the goodies for foodies

by Steven Sande (Dec 19th, 2012)

The busy elves at Evernote have a new gift just in time for holiday noshing. It's a major upgrade to Evernote Food, which the company is describing as "Your entire food world in a single app." Evernote Food 2.0 should be hitting the App Store right about now, and it's been impressively bulked ...

Skitch for Mac updated with more 'classic' features

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 18th, 2012)

After Skitch was acquired by Evernote, the 2.0 update of the screenshot app received flak for removing a lot of useful features. Version 1.0 holdouts eventually found that the button to copy the URL of an uploaded image was broken, along with other issues in the older version. Thanks in part ...