On Evernote
Some kind soul was kind enough to give me an invite to Evernote. The features seem cool, such as:
- A Note management program for Windows and Mac.
- A somewhat limited Web version
- The Windows client doesn’t require Administrator rights, so I can install it at work!
- You can send photos from your cell phone camera and send it to Evernote.
- Evernote can search text even in the photos!
Despite those cool features, I was not very impressed with it. Here’s why:
- The Mac client is Leopard-only. I’m still on Tiger and have no immediate plans to move to Leopard. Bad, bad Evernote.
- The Windows version couldn’t get through the office firewall.
- I sent a few test pics to Evernote, but they never showed up.
So I left Evernote alone, thinking that it wasn’t up to the hype.
Then, yesterday, I was looking at my Phone Contacts backup on the web (yes, we love you Verizon!) and I noted that the email address I had on file for Evernote was wrong. I had “euernote.com” instead of “evernote.com”. I looked at my phone again, and it seemed to have “evernote.com” as the email address. So I entered it again, and noted that the “u” and the “v” on my cell phone look exactly alike! Yikes! So I make sure that it said “evernote.com” this time. And then I resent a picture that I took once. In seconds, seconds that picture showed up in the Web client.
Now we’re talkin’!
I took some time today to investigate the Windows client. A search on their forums seemed to indicate that others have had this problem too but Evernote Support swore up and down that it used the same proxy settings at IE. I laughed, but thought I should try to install the latest Windows client and see what happened. I got strange errors on the first sync, so I tried it again — and it worked. Like a charm.
So then I had an image with text in it in my “thick” Evernote client, so I could try the text search in the image. And, guess what? It works nicely.
Therefore, in 24 hours I went from a “it’s a little better than hype-ware” to “Wow — it’s really cool!” But it would be cooler with a Tiger client.
Now, as a finish — I have 7 invites to Evernote. The first seven people who email me or leave a comment get them. If you don’t think I have your email address, I’ll need that too. This should be an interesting exercise, since only about three people regularly read this blog.