Interesting Phil Libin video interviews from Leweb 2012

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

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

 

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

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.

The Evernote powered Moleskines are here !

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.

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

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.

 

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

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.

TEC #023 – Install Evernote on MacOS 10.5.8

Hello,

It is possible to install Evernote on MacOS 10.5.8.

As stated in the Evernote forum post referenced below, if you want to install the Evernote desktop software you have get the dmg file from the link below.

You will NOT find this link on the official Evernote download page. It is because of an official policy from Apple.

That’s the version I am using intensively every day on my 6 year old trusty MacBook.

Evernote forum post about MacOS 10.5.8:
http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/19811-macos-1058-wont-run-evernote/

MacOS 10.5.8 Evernote download link

http://evernote.s3.amazonaws.com/mac/release/Evernote_156801.dmg

Until the next time, happy evernoting!

Pierre.

1000 and one use cases for Evernote

Here’s a master list of all the use cases I have for Evernote in my everyday life.

Last update: 27/08/12

Job hunt (see episode #007)

  • Log of all actions: calls, e-mail, meetings, etc …
  • Storage of the most interesting ads
  • Information about the company I meet
  • My CV in Word
  • My cover letters
  • Debrief on the spot recorded in audio with the iPhone as soon as I get out of an interview
  • Pic of the notes taken during a call, I make a picture and then tagged in Evernote
  • Business cards photo indexed via OCR so they become searchable
  • Storage of important e-mails for future reference

Production of podcast and blogging

  • Blog post prepared in Evernote and copy/pasted when ready to be published
  • Shownotes for the podcasts I produce
  • All information: log of contacts, interview questions, etc …
  • Atists bios or articles found during the preparation of the interviews
  • Episodes in MP3 format when less than 50Mb, for archiving purpose
  • Archiving of the raw audio files of the interviews

Information for reference (GTD reference material)

  • Photo of restaurant where you go: facade, menu, dish. My personal Gault Millault!
  • Photo of wine bottle labels I have the opportunity to drink with comment. Identifies good quality / price ratio.
  • Archives of old personal web pages
  • Testing various materials found on the Net: guitars, effects, running shoes, gadgets, etc …
  • e-mail to keep
  • How-Tos
  • PDF manuals (eg, cameras, gadgets, etc …)
  • The pictures of the covers of books I read with comments
  • The pictures of movie posters that I saw with commentary
  • The pictures of posters of shows I’ve seen with commentary
  • The photos of the posters I saw exhibitions with comment

Digital Memory

  • Selected photos taken with iPhone to keep these little moments of life.
  • Short video shot with iPhone (eg a child who sings a song)
  • Automatic backup of all my Instagram pics using an IFTTT recipe (see episode #004)
  • Creating a written note for all the “funny words” from my kids (they love to review them once in a while)
  • Audio or video recording of children’s song of my kids

Information related to the music and the guitar

  • Guitar tabs found on the Net
  • Chords grids
  • Short videos recorded during the guitar course I have with a teacher
  • Storage of classified ads for used guitar interesting reference prices, specs, etc …

Information related to running

  • The courses of the marathons I ran or intend to run
  • Documents enrollment in races
  • Official timing web pages backup
  • Pre-race check-list
  • Up to date medical certificate

Administrative documents

  • Travel documents
  • Bills of online purchases
  • Photo ID, family book, medical certificate, etc …
  • Photos of the opening hours of shops around my house
  • Storage via photo or PDF electronic document administration: iPhone phone bill, etc …
  • Warranties

Recipes

  • Photo pages of cookbooks or article
  • Photo of final dish
  • Note possible to complete the recipe: change, change of ingredient, appreciation, etc …

Work related stuff

  • E-mail reference
  • Reference information (intranet site, login information, etc.).
  • Document management (assessments, etc.).
  • Reference documents (PowerPoint presentation)
  • Notes taken during a conference
  • Note taking during meetings to keep track of what is said and decided

House hunt

  • Storage of classified ads
  • Various documents required for getting the loan
  • Official documents
  • Ikea kitchen pictures for reference
  • Photos of furniture with size and price info
  • Plans
  • Quote of the artisans
  • Invoices

Twitter archive

  • Backup of all my tweets with IFTTT (see episode #004) for all the Twitter accounts I manage
  • Use of the Evernote desktop app internal search engine to find a previous tweet (works way faster than the Twitter search engine)

How to archive to Evernote any picture you tweet

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