All I want is Instanote.
October 24, 2011 7:59 AM Subscribe
Working on an iPhone, is there an easy way to clip a small excerpt from an article in Instapaper and send it to Evernote without leaving the Instapaper app?
I've been using Instapaper for a while now, but I am a complete Evernote novice. Here is what I want to do: highlight a sentence or two from an Instapaper article I am reading and save it to my notebook in Evernote without navigating to the Evernote app and creating a new note. It seems to me like this should be possible, and that it is probably blindingly easy, but I keep hitting a wall.
I have linked my Instapaper and Evernote accounts successfully. The problem I am encountering is that when I highlight the desired selection, click "share," and then click "save to Evernote," Instapaper exports the entire article. I believed I was working mightily all morning, only to check my evernote account and discover that I'd sent it 13 copies of the same full-text article.
Is there a way to make Instapaper and Evernote play more nicely together? I'm sure that there is something extremely obvious I am missing here.
I've been using Instapaper for a while now, but I am a complete Evernote novice. Here is what I want to do: highlight a sentence or two from an Instapaper article I am reading and save it to my notebook in Evernote without navigating to the Evernote app and creating a new note. It seems to me like this should be possible, and that it is probably blindingly easy, but I keep hitting a wall.
I have linked my Instapaper and Evernote accounts successfully. The problem I am encountering is that when I highlight the desired selection, click "share," and then click "save to Evernote," Instapaper exports the entire article. I believed I was working mightily all morning, only to check my evernote account and discover that I'd sent it 13 copies of the same full-text article.
Is there a way to make Instapaper and Evernote play more nicely together? I'm sure that there is something extremely obvious I am missing here.
Actually, on second look, you can filter by search query (in body or subject), so doing a search for (via Instapaper) should work. So you won't need a separate account for this.
posted by backwards guitar at 8:23 AM on October 24, 2011
posted by backwards guitar at 8:23 AM on October 24, 2011
You could always email Marco to find out if this is expected behavior or not. (Or maybe not.)
posted by Nothlit at 8:26 AM on October 24, 2011
posted by Nothlit at 8:26 AM on October 24, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks for the heads-up on Iffft, backwards guitar. It seems like an interesting utility and a good workaround for my problem. I'm pretty surprised to discover that sending short snippets from one app to the other is not natively supported in Instapaper; it would seem like an obvious use to me. Huh!
posted by scarylarry at 8:40 AM on October 24, 2011
posted by scarylarry at 8:40 AM on October 24, 2011
You can email in the highlight text to Evernote. Evernote provides a custom import email address for your account.
posted by mac-way at 2:23 PM on October 24, 2011
posted by mac-way at 2:23 PM on October 24, 2011
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When you press Share, choose "Email Link with Selection". Then email it to a specific email address (not your normal one - one dedicated to this, since I don't think Iffft lets you filter mail). Then setup a Task on Iffft that grabs any email sent to that address and adds it as a note to Evernote.
posted by backwards guitar at 8:21 AM on October 24, 2011