Peter's Blog

My Evernote usage is showing no signs of abating and I am dumping everything I can think of in there.

Evernote Notes:

• You can draw handwritten notes using a Wacom Pen Tablet. It made a pretty good job of recognising my scrawly writing which isn't much better with the Tablet than it is with a mouse. Unfortunately it didn't manage to sync my experiments before I switched the pc off so I have no examples. I think I assumed it would sync before it shut down but maybe it doesn't?
• The Evernote Blog mentions an application called ShoZu which is supposed to make uploading pictures from a mobile phone to Flickr, Blogger etc easier. It can theoretically send photos to email and hence Evernote. I say theoretically as I had a bugger of a time getting the application to download to my phone (I had to hack wap/gprs settings) and then when I did install it I couldn't get it to upload anything. I fiddled with the wap/gprs some more but unfortunately it is designed to upload things automatically in the background which means it has no mechanism to show me progress bars or errors. I gave up and deleted it. If it had worked it's one useful looking feature would have been the ability to easily rotate a picture before sending it. When I want to send a photo to my moblog I have to use the built-in photo editing thing to rotate the picture which is a bit slow and fiddly. UPDATE: fixed it
• I had an email from another note-taking application vendor asking me to try it out. This one is an amalgum of twitter and 30 boxes. However for me the big advantage of Evernote is the way it finds text within photos and drawings. A good example would be photoing business cards and putting them in Evernote. The text on the cards would be automatically indexed and you wouldn't have to visit Staples for a business card album. You can then read them anywhere you have internet access. I'm not a big meetings man but wouldn't it be cool to put meeting minutes in Evernote along with photos of business cards of attendees? Almost worth buying a suit for.
• Evernote has an 'Install Evernote Portable' option which installs Evernote on a USB stick. You can then run it from the USB stick, synchronise and you have a portable backup of your data.