To make good use of NV, try to maintain one detail/fact/item per note. Reveal a note's content by using the up/down arrow keys to select it. To view or edit an existing note, type one or more words contained in its body or title. Edit the note as needed in the bottom pane. To create a new note, just type its title and press return. Correspondingly, selecting a note places its title in the search area (De-selecting the note restores the search terms). This selects the note and consequently displays it. If a note's title starts with the search term(s), that title will be "auto-completed". Likewise, if a search reveals nothing, one need simply press return to create a note with the appropriate title. I.e., in the process of entering the title for a new note, related notes appear below, letting users file information there if they choose. Drive also has a space limit, although it’s possibly to get free space added on from different products Google offers (such as a Chromebook, or the Motorola Moto E, G, and X).The same area is used both for creating notes and searching. In fact, I also use Drive a lot as well, though still prefer to use Evernote for specific things. The Google Drive app has a Scan Document ability, very similar in fact to Evernote’s. Google Drive also is an option for those who like scanning documents and saving PDF files. Even if I wanted to dish out the cash, they don’t have an Android app (cutting out a huge market in my opinion). What do you require? What do you value? No one wants a product that doesn’t work correctly, but in my case I’m willing to wait on it and hope as time goes on, it improves.Īnother brilliant (though expensive) option is Livescribe, which I wish I could possibly afford. Like much else in the world, the opinion of a product is mostly derived from the personal needs of the reviewer. However, that is the thing with technology. This means a digital file cabinet that allows for less clutter in my living-space, which means a more successful lifestyle for me. Between Evernote’s Stacks, Notebooks, and tags, it’s pretty easy to organize all the things that would be hard-copies digitally. Since having a lot of stuff makes it much harder for me than the average person, I am currently attempting to create as little paper hard-copies in my life as possible. I have only started using it in the past month, but as previous commentators have mentioned, its ability to create document-scanned images, regular images, audio, and more make it so valuable for me. I have yet to read Jason Kincaid’s article–though I certainly will–but I have to say it probably won’t make much of a difference for me.Īs someone who has adult a.d.d., Evernote has slowly started to become a technology I can see being, well, pretty much essential. I stumbled upon this doing some research about Evernote Premium. *You can see the etherpad we used for that call here. Update 4: I’m no longer using Chrome OS, nor GMail. I’m still moving away from it as I’m using Chrome OS more and more these days. Update 3: the CEO of Evernote responded to Kincaid’s blog post here. That’ll teach me to trust bloated closed-source products, eh? □ Happily, if the worst comes to the worst, Evernote allows me to export everything to HTML. Update 2: when you reach the 2GB limit for your trial, CloudHQ presents you with an option to get unlimited data transfer during the trial by tweeting about them. I’m just checking it works – and flagging to readers that it’s not an entirely free service. Given that I’ve been paying for Evernote Premium its not the money I’ve got an issue with. Update: a commenter on Hacker News asked why I wasn’t prepared to pay this. There’s a paid-for service called CloudHQ that’s allowed me to backup to both Google Drive and Dropbox, but is limited to 50 files 2GB of data transfer unless you pay $4.90/month or $49/year. While I’ve come across an app called Simple-for-Ever that syncs notes from Simplenote to Evernote, I haven’t found one that does the reverse. After reading it (and I suggest you do too), I’m ready to return to a Simplenote-based solution. I just assumed that one or both of us weren’t ‘using it properly’.ĭisturbingly, on Hacker News this morning I came across an article by former TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid entitled Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant. On a couple of occasions, though, I found that we’d lost information. It’s our ‘external brain’ as it were, a place where we can dump information and sort it afterwards. We’re moving to another country next month and, as part of that, I’ve set up a stack of notebooks in Evernote that I’ve shared with my wife. However, I haven’t used it for a while as I’ve been trying to get to grips with using Evernote. Before Christmas I organised a productivity-focused call for some of us at the Mozilla Foundation.* One tool I recommended was Notational Velocity, a service that syncs with Simplenote.
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