Making evernote and the iPad place nice
July 16, 2010 3:58 PM Subscribe
When I'm using my laptop, i frequently clip web pages to Evernote. Is there a way to do this when using my iPad to browse the web?
I can't seem to find any mention of this kind of functionality on Evernote's web site, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Is there another app that can do this sort of thing and sync with Evernote?
I can't seem to find any mention of this kind of functionality on Evernote's web site, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Is there another app that can do this sort of thing and sync with Evernote?
Response by poster: Wow, that is great. An odd workaround, but it makes sense. Thanks.
posted by dfriedman at 4:24 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by dfriedman at 4:24 PM on July 16, 2010
Best answer: The Safari bookmarklet works fine on iPad Safari too.
posted by Mwongozi at 4:35 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by Mwongozi at 4:35 PM on July 16, 2010
Regarding Mwongozi's suggestion, someone in the comments in the article I linked to explains that you can bookmark the bookmarklet in Safari on your computer and then sync bookmarks to the iPad. So you can try that, too!
posted by bcwinters at 4:47 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by bcwinters at 4:47 PM on July 16, 2010
bcwinters: "Have you seen Joe Taxpayer's Evernote on the iPad article? You can set up a web browser inside Evernote on the iPad."
Sorry, I couldn't get this to work:
If you first set up an Evernote note which links to Google (i.e. just add a note with http://www.google.com to your first Evernote notebook) now when you go to Google this way, you are not in Safari, and you can see the top search bar is gone, we are in Evernote’s own browser.
I have the Windows Evernote application open. What are the dummy steps from here?
posted by Joe Beese at 4:52 PM on July 16, 2010
Sorry, I couldn't get this to work:
If you first set up an Evernote note which links to Google (i.e. just add a note with http://www.google.com to your first Evernote notebook) now when you go to Google this way, you are not in Safari, and you can see the top search bar is gone, we are in Evernote’s own browser.
I have the Windows Evernote application open. What are the dummy steps from here?
posted by Joe Beese at 4:52 PM on July 16, 2010
Response by poster: I have the windows evernote application, too. But you do this on the iPad.
Open evernote on the iPad.
Click create new note
Enter www.google.com
Save the note
Open the note
Click on the link
A browser opens within the evernote app on the iPad.
Enter a search term or web address
Go to that web page
In the lower right hand corner there is a button which allows you to clip the web page to evernote.
posted by dfriedman at 5:01 PM on July 16, 2010
Open evernote on the iPad.
Click create new note
Enter www.google.com
Save the note
Open the note
Click on the link
A browser opens within the evernote app on the iPad.
Enter a search term or web address
Go to that web page
In the lower right hand corner there is a button which allows you to clip the web page to evernote.
posted by dfriedman at 5:01 PM on July 16, 2010
I am not sue what you are saving but I have found saving web pages (particularly text) extremely easy with Instapaper. It installs in a few seconds on your bookmark menu and provides one click to save and store web pages. Not sure about its use with Safari.
posted by rmhsinc at 5:24 PM on July 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by rmhsinc at 5:24 PM on July 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
dfriedman: "... Enter www.google.com ..."
If Evernote is supposed to automatically hyperlink that, it didn't for me. I had to type out an [a href] tag in order for a link to come up. Thanks for the help.
posted by Joe Beese at 5:24 PM on July 16, 2010
If Evernote is supposed to automatically hyperlink that, it didn't for me. I had to type out an [a href] tag in order for a link to come up. Thanks for the help.
posted by Joe Beese at 5:24 PM on July 16, 2010
Yeah, after checking out Instapaper just now, it was much easier to save web pages to the cloud with it. And the results looked like the actual web pages - which they don't for me in EverNote, for some reason.
Unless you're trying to use EverNote for everything...
posted by Joe Beese at 5:59 PM on July 16, 2010
Unless you're trying to use EverNote for everything...
posted by Joe Beese at 5:59 PM on July 16, 2010
Response by poster: Does instapaper offer a way to sync with evernote? I use evernote for everything else and don't want to have to manage two separate seats of documents.
posted by dfriedman at 6:15 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by dfriedman at 6:15 PM on July 16, 2010
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(I Googled 'evernote clip to ipad,' for future reference)
posted by bcwinters at 4:22 PM on July 16, 2010