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Paris Evernote Meetup – December 13th 7:00pm at La Pépinière 27

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Hello,

I am happy to announce a new date for the 6th Paris Evernote Meetup I am organizing.

When: December 13th 7:00pm

Where: La Pépinière 27 - 27 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris - Métros Bastille ou Bréguet-Sabin.

Infos and free registration on Meetup.com

Thursday December 13th 7:00pm – 9:00pm

27 Rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris

Whether your are a veteran evernoter, a beginner or just intrigued and interested by the tool, those meetups are for you.

Bring your questions and share your experience.

Tentative agenda:

  • Introduction (Pierre @pjournel)
  • Round table presentation (everybody)
  • Introduction to Evernote 5 for Mac and iOS
  • Evernote Moleskine review (Pierre @pjournel)
  • Skitch presentation (François @fdruel)
  • SmartPen Livescribe demo (Didier @didtwit)
  • Questions/answers/discussion (all)

Looking forward to see you there.

Pierre.

TEC #032 – Roberto Civille interview (EV)

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Hello,

I am happy to present you with the Bronze medal winner of the Evernote Trunk Conference 2012 DevCup, Roberto Civille Rodrigues from the company called EV which has a very cool service which allows you to use your Evernote account with a simple feature phone via SMS.

For your information, the other winners of the DevCup were:

Until the next episode, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

TEC #031 – Evernote powered Moleskine test

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Hello,

I received  two weeks ago the Evernote Moleskines I bought online (pics are here). Now is the time I share with you the results of the test I did with those notebooks.
Let’s review first the Evernote Moleskine  features :
  • Custom designed cover
  • Smart stickers allowing tagging and notebook filing at the scanning stage (settings done in the Evernote mobile app to customize each stickers).
  • Exists in 2 sizes 13x21cm (5″ x 8,25″) and 9x14cm (3,5″ x 5,5″)
  • Each notebook include a 3 month Premium code
  • Special line to improve scanning and OCR
The iPhone app settings for the smart stickers:

The test

Method
  • On 2 notebooks (1 Evernote, 1 normal) I wrote as much as possible the very same text with a dummy drawing
  • Test 1 : scan of the Evernote Moleskine with the iPhone Evernote app with the phone held parallel to the page
  • Test 2 : scan of the Evernote Moleskine with the iPhone Evernote app with the phone held with an angle to the page
  • Test 3 : scan of the standard Moleskine with the iPhone Evernote app with the phone held parallel to the page
  • Test 4 : scan of the standard Moleskine with the iPhone Evernote app with the phone held with an angle to the page
Page from an Evernote Moleskine used in tests 1 and 2:
Page from an standard Moleskine used in tests 3 and 4:

Results

  • In all instances the smart stickers worked perfectly. The tags were applied and the notes were put in the designated notebook (settings can be changed in the Evernote mobile app).
  • No notable difference in the OCR performance between the Evernote powered Moleskine and the standard one.
Search of the key word “bonjour” :
Search of the key word  ”bidule” :
Search of the key word  ”petit” :
Search of the key word  ”feedback” :

Conclusion

The good
  • The gorgeous cover
  • The smart tickets work perfectly
  • Can be an excellent conversation starter in a meeting to introduce Evernote around you
The bad
  • Not really convinced that the special lines are actually helping the OCR (see my simple test)
  • Might be seen as a little too expensive compared to a standard Moleskine if you don’t take into account the 3 month access to the Evernote Premium service
Overall, as a long time Moleskine user and big fan of Evernote, I am very happy about the Evernote Moleskine I bought.
Nevertheless I have no use at the moment for the 3 month Premium access code as I am already a yearly Premium. I might use the code at the end of my subscription though. The smart stickers feature works great but is it really faster to put a sticker in your note than to tag your note after the scan in the Evernote app ? Not sure. I hope Evernote will include more integration between Moleskine and Evernote.
My recommendations
  • If you are Evernote AND Moleskine fan, you HAVE to get an Evernote powered Moleskine
  • If you are only an Evernote users without already using a Moleskine or another paper notebook, you don’t need this as the added smart features are not that worth it alone in my humble opinion.
  • If you want to introduce Evernote to someone around you, this could be the perfect Christmas gift
Please share you thoughts and question
  • on the blog elephantchannel.net,
  • on Twitter @elephantchannel,
  • on Facebook facebook.com/elephantchannel
  • and by mail TheElephantChannel@gmail.com.
If you want to send an audio comment please mail them to me to share your experience or ask a question.
If you use iTunes, please post a review of the show with plenty of stars, it really helps.
Until the next time happy evernoting!
Pierre.
PS: thank you Eric for your feedback on the Evernote Moleskine.

TEC #030 – Pete Wright interview

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Hello,

It’s through Twitter that I got the contact with Pete Wright (@PeteWright). As he uses Evernote intensively in his job as a photographer I thought it would make an interesting use case to share.

In the interview he shares how he uses Evernote to scout for locations to take photos for his clients and how Evernote is part of his workflow.

You can check Pete’s wonderful photos on his superb web site: rashpixel.com

Here’s a pic I took from his website:

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

The Evernote powered Moleskines are here !

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Hello,

Here are the Evernote powered Moleskines (after a couple of phone calls to the Fedex customer service…).

The box :

The big and small models side by side (note that the small is really…small, it fits easily in a jean pocket):

The big one with the stickers:

The small one with the stickers:

The  stickers (6 different sort) and the arrows in magenta:

The gorgeous cover:

To give you an idea of the size, here’s the small model with my Faber Castell pencil:

To give you an idea of the size, here’s the big model with my Faber Castell pencil:

Here you go, next step is to use those nice Moleskines and test the method to scan the content using the mobile app in conjunction with the smart stickers.

You can read and listen to my review in episode #031.

Pierre.

TEC #029 – Hussein Ahmed interview (KustomNote)

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Hello,

On episode #028 I presented you an interview of the 2012 Evernote DevCup Gold medal winner, in this episode you are going to listen to Hussein who won the Silver medal for his very cool web products called KustomNote.

KustomNote basically gives you the ability to create notes from templates. You have the choice of plenty of existing templates or you can create your own.

KustomNote is accessible online only at the moment through a web interface but Hussein said in the interview that he intends to add more interfaces and features in the near future.

Kudos to Hussein for developing such a cool FREE service.

Here’s how to use the service.

1 – You choose a template (or create one)

2 – You create the note by filling the fields of the template

There’s no step 3. You’re done ! The note is created in your Evernote account.

For your information, the other winners of the DevCup were:

  • Gold medal : EverClip, see episode #028 for the interview
  • Bronze medal : EV, see episode #032 for the interview

Until the next time happy evernoting !

Pierre.

Twitter broke IFTTT, do you still want to archive your tweets to Evernote ?

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Hello,

Recently Twitter changed its policy meaning the triggers in place in IFTTT will no longer works on September 27th. It’s a pain but one cannot really blame Twitter to try to regain control over their ecosystem (but that’s another matter).

Here’s a cool workaround to archive your tweets to Evernote. I discovered it through a tweet from Jamie Todd Rubin (aka @jamietr).

You can follow the easy 6 step method by reading his blog post.

Or you can use this IFTTT recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/58229 and modify it with the Twitter account you need.

For more information on all the great stuff you can automate with IFTTT, see episode TEC #004 – IFTTT and Evernote.

I have implemented his method and it works great, thanks Jamie. This method which uses RSS should work until March 2013, that’s still better than nothing (thanks @cybermarmotte for the info).

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

Update 25/09/12

Another solution to archive your tweets to Evernote: twtr2src twtr2src.ogaoga.org

Thanks Joseph aka @tamegoeswild for the info.

Update 16/10/12

Just received an e-mail from IFTTT saying the recipe I used with the RSS method is no longer working.

So we’ll have to find something else to archive tweets.

Thanks Joseph aka @tamegoeswild for the info.

Update 02/12/12

 Another option is Twieve (twieve.net) discovered on this tweet from Mark Kawasaki.

 

TEC #028 – Alex Hui interview (EverClip)

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Hello,

I am very pleased to present you on the show an interview of the 2012 Evernote DevCup winner, Alex Hui from Ignition Soft who wrote the EverClip application.

This application brings a nice and elegant solution to web clip any text from your iPhone or iPad.

Here’s the video demo:

For your information, the other winners of the DevCup were:

  • Silver medal : KustomNote, see episode #028 for the interview
  • Bronze medal : EV, see episode #029 for the interview

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

TEC #027 – Create an Evernote notebook on the iPhone

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Hello,

In this video I show you how to create an Evernote notebook right from the iPhone app (version 4.4).

This feature is not so well know because it is not so obvious where to find it (I think I stumbled on it by chance the first time I used it !).

Here’s the step by step way to do it.

Step 1: tap on the “i” icon when you are in a note

Step 2: tap on Notebook

Step 3: in the search field type the name of the notebook you want to create

You’re done. With the next synchronization, the new notebook will be created in your account.

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

Paris Evernote Meetup – September 13th 6:30pm at La Pépinière 27

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Hello,

I am happy to announce a new date for the 5th Paris Evernote Meetup I am organizing.

When: September 13th 6:30pm

Where: La Pépinière 27 - 27 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris - Métros Bastille ou Bréguet-Sabin.

Infos and free registration on Meetup.com

Thursday September 13th 6:30pm – 9:00pm

27 Rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris

Whether your are a veteran evernoter or just intrigued and interested by the tool, those meetups are for you. Just bring your questions and share your experience.

Tentative agenda:
+ Meetup introduction + Evernote for beginners (by Pierre @pjournel)
+ Round table introduction (all)
+ Review of the news from the Evernote Trunk Conference from AUgust 24th in San Francisco (Pierre @pjournel and François @fdruel)
+ SmartPen Livescribe demo (Didier @didtwit)
+ Questions/answers/discussion (all)

Looking forward to see you there.

Pierre.