You have long been able to share notebooks with Evernote, but the company has added the ability to share individual notes as a link. I have found this surprisingly handy. Here’s an example. I tend to scan magazine articles into Evernote that I think may be useful. Yesterday, a friend told me that he was […]
Continue readingIf you use tags to organize your information in Evernote, it can be handy to periodically go through and find the notes that aren’t tagged. That way, you can make sure that you have tagged everything. By the way, this tip came from Don McAllister in the Evernote episode of ScreencastsOnline. I definitely recommend checking […]
Continue readingThis post is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s featured DocumentSnap reader is Stacey Hurley. What problems were you trying to solve by going paperless? Years of papers […]
Continue readingAs much as I like Evernote there is one thing that has always been a bit annoying: when you bring up a note that contains a PDF, it displays it inline. What do I mean by that? Here’s a screenshot: As you can see, when you view the note, the contents of the PDF are […]
Continue readingI have a theory, based on no data whatsoever, that Fujitsu is going to sell a lot of ScanSnap S1100 scanners to people who already have another ScanSnap. Your average home or small business user will most likely not need multiple scanners, but I could see people who travel a lot, visit client sites, or […]
Continue readingThis post from is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s featured DocumentSnap reader is Brandon Smith from Keizer, OR. You can find him on Twitter @brasmi. What problems […]
Continue readingOne of the most frequent complaints that users who try to use Evernote to manage their documents have is that it had no concept of “sub-notebooks”. Yes you can fake it by using tags, and you could make the argument that if you rely on search, you don’t need sub-notebooks anyways, but the fact remains: […]
Continue readingUpdate: The ScanSnap S1100 has been released in North America as of January 2011. You can see my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 Review here. Almost a year ago now, I noticed something on some Japanese gadget sites: a strange ScanSnap called the S1300. About a month or two later, it was announced in North America. Is […]
Continue readingI am always in awe of is the number of different platforms that Evernote supports. Having worked in software in the past, I can only imagine the product management headache that must cause. Because of all their platforms, sometimes different versions start getting a bit long in the tooth and that was definitely the case […]
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Is your data secure in Evernote? Evernote has a very detailed security page, and among other things they talk about how they encrypt your data in transit (when uploading and downloading) and they talk about how you can encrypt text within a note. There is one notable exception: they don’t talk about encrypting the files […]
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