TEC #039 – Dmitry Gorsgkov interview (PowerbotApps)

Posted on 12/05/2013 by pjournel

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Here’s an interview I did with Dmitry Gorsgkov who is working for PowerbotaApps. He tells you all about the great extensions they are developping to connect Gmail, Gcal, Salesforce and many more to your Evernote account.

Basically the Gmail extension from PowerbotApps makes it really easy to send one of your mail to your Evernote account. You can even file it to a specific notebook and tag it.

Enjoy,

Pierre.

TEC #038 – Fujitsu Scansnap s1300i review

Posted on 15/03/2013 by pjournel

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Here’s my review of the Fujitsu ScanSnap s1300i.

Startup

Installation ScanSnap Manager (441 Mo to download, 775 Mo once installed on MacOSX)
Connexion with a USB/Mini-USB cable
Power supply with the wall wart supply provided or with a second USB cable

Use

Open the scanner and press the blue button !
Select on the computer the scan destination
Two options for Evernote, PDF or JPG

Scan tests

Printed paper to PDF
Printed paper to JPG
JPG option is the output option I would recommend for Evernote so you can have the OCR running on it unless you need to have the document in PDF format.
You can also scan a picture even though it’s not the primary purpose of this model. It’s still a solution if you want to make a quick digital copy of a print.

Conclusion

Very easy to use scanner
Fast to plug and use
Good integration with Evernote
Price 280€ or US$ on the Internet
Only small regret : I wish the s1300i would require only 1 USB cable to be powered and connected to a computer to reduce clutter on the desktop when used.

TEC #037 – Grégory Lefort interview (Azendoo’s CEO)

Posted on 15/02/2013 by pjournel

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Hello,

I had the pleasure of having lunch last week with Grégory Lefort (aka @greglefort), Azendoo‘s CEO, we had a very rich exchange around the collaboration tool that his company offers and its integration with Evernote.

Note that Azendoo is a company that has caught the eye of Evernote during Leweb back in December 2012 which enabled them to be featured on the Trunk very rapidly.

If you are looking for a solution for managing tasks collaboratively, I can only encourage you to go check Azendoo which offer very interesting as a web application and mobile. The service is free up to 5 users.

Until the next episode, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

TEC #036 – Peter Jensen (Moleskine head of Digital) interview

Posted on 07/02/2013 by pjournel

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Hello,

As I have been a longtime fan of the Moleskine notebooks, when Evernote announced the deal with Moleskine back in August 2012 I was delighted.

So I am very happy to present you with an interview I did with Peter Jensen Hobolt who is the Head of Digital at Moleskine based out of Milan in Italy.

He tells us everything about the Evernote/Moleskine deal, how it became a reality and what comes next. I am sure you will be surprised as I was about the backstory on this collaboration with the green elephant company.

For more information you can go to evernote.com/moleskine/ and moleskine.com.

You can also listen to my review on the Smart Notebooks in episode #31.

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

TEC #035 – BitQwik presented by Robert, its developer

Posted on 14/01/2013 by pjournel

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Hello,

Robert Oschler, developer of BitQwik, presents in this episode what can be done with his great free Windows tool to do powerful search easily on your Evernote account.

Yes you can do similar search using the syntax provided by Evernote but it can be difficult to master so having a tool like BitQwik might just be the solution.

bitqwik-enter-query

bitqwik-evernote-client-2

As Robert says himself on his website : “Unlock the power of Evernote’s rich set of search operators for finding notes with BitQwik! You can filter search results by the date created or modified, by file type such as PDF files and more, by the tags used or the source application that created the note, and many, many, other useful ways.”

Until the next time, happy evernoting,

Pierre.

TEC #034 – Phil Libin interview at Leweb 2012

Posted on 14/12/2012 by pjournel

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Hello,

For the 3rd time I had the opportunity to interview Phil Libin (CEO for Evernote) during the Leweb conference in Paris. This time though I did it in video so I am able to present you with sounds and images !

You can view the full video on YouTube below.

You can also get the audio file to listen to it on your mobile device or computer by subscribing to the RSS feed or via the iTunes link to the show.

Subjects covered during the interview :

The launch of Evernote Business (in 7 countries as of December 2012)
New features coming up in Q1 2013
Mobile strategy
And last but not least, the Evernote Socks !

During Leweb, Evernote also held a workshop which was in fact some kind of Press conference open to anyone to ask questions to Phil and to John McGeachie (VP Sales). I published my verbatim notes from that workshop in that blog post.

For your information, the 2011audio interview of Phil is available in episode #011 and the 2010 interview is in this blog post.

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

Interesting Phil Libin video interviews from Leweb 2012

Posted on 11/12/2012 by pjournel

Hello,

In the next episode of the Channel I will release the video interview I did with Phil at Leweb. In the meantime here’re some videos worth watching.

The talk between Loïc Lemeur and Phil on the big stage :

An interesting interview from Frenchweb :

[LeWeb'12] Phil Libin, Evernote par frenchweb

3 questions to Phil by France3 :

Enjoy,

Pierre.

04/12/12 – Evernote workshop verbatim notes – Leweb 2012

Posted on 04/12/2012 by pjournel

Speakers : John McGeachie (VP Sales) and Phil Libin (CEO)

Notes

“The design is the most important thing”
No design responsible in the board but Phil is the only employee
More formal product for education to come
Pilote school in Spain using Evernote
Security : 2 factor authentication to come
Finer granularity in the API to control rights given to third party application
77% 1st experience of Evernote is done on mobile
We try to be featured on every platform so we get free ads this way
Business API:
- Ways to determine which type of account you have
- API for relative notes
- Business specific API to allow application to view all the notes of the company
Average upload capacity : growing
4 Gb / month when Evernote Business 2Gb for the user +2Gb for the company
“No tricks philosophy”
“We don’t want to be a disk drive in the cloud”
No real-time editing down the road because it is usually a bad experience for users. Plus Gdocs does that really well.
Indexing of Office docs coming soon
Some things are coming with the Google API because many people at Evernote uses Google tools
Prediction : “In 3 years, I will have glasses with info in there”.
Evernote Business is launched in 7 countries today
Product demo
- Admin console
- Managed notebooks
- No group right management to allow access to specific notebooks
Hundreds of thousands of Smart Notebooks sold : big success
Some people are using future dates to have the note at the top internally at Evernote. This will be fixed by providing a way to flag a note.
Due dates are coming ! First quarter 2013.
Full windows redesign will be launched next year

TEC #033 – Rafe Needleman interview

Posted on 29/11/2012 by pjournel

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Hello,

Rafe Needleman (aka @rafe on Twitter) is a famous tech blogger who recently joined Evernote to be their Platform Advocate.

In this episode he shares the details of his mission and how and why he joined the green elephant company.

Don’t miss Rafe’s Opportunity Notes at http://blog.evernote.com/opportunitynotes/. Since we recorded the interview, his show is now available as a podcast you can subscribe to via RSS/iTunes.

Until the next time, happy evernoting !

Pierre.

PS: as stated in the interview I will ba at the Leweb conference from Dec 4th to 6th so if you are there too please ping me on Twitter @pjournel or by mail pjournel@gmail.com so we can get together.

How to archive to Evernote any picture you tweet

Posted on 17/09/2011 by pjournel

Hello,

Question: how to automatically archive to Evernote any picture you tweet?

Answer: use ifttt.com

Ifttt recipe: http://ifttt.com/recipes/1430

Happy evernoting,

Pierre.

Update 15/04/13

Unfortunately it’s not possible anymore to use this recipe on IFTTT since Twitter changed the access to its API. You can still archive your Instagram pics using this IFTTT recipe : https://ifttt.com/recipes/89646