Steve Dotto here.
Glad you could join me today.
Today, I want to talk about Evernote Web Clipper, one of my favorite tools.
A new version of it is available as of, for me, last night.
I use the Chrome browser and actually I have a funny story I’ll share with you.
I was giving a talk last night and doing a presentation to a group of accountants, such
a party group.
I was showing them productivity tools, as I often do, and I thought I would show them
Evernote, as I often do, because it’s such a great productivity tool.
I was talking about the Evernote Web Clipper which, if you look at our previous videos,
you know is a tremendous tool except Evernote has upgraded it and I hadn’t noticed.
So when I clicked on it, instead of Evernote Web Clipper running with the normal little
screen in the middle for me to capture whatever I wanted, it ran an installation process which
bamboozled me briefly because I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
Of course, I’m trying to talk and trying to install at the same time, which is never
a good combination and then I got through it and the interface is brand new.
Of course, I watched the demo and didn’t look like an expert at all.
I liked most of the things in it and some things not so much.
For you, if you’re using Chrome, you can install the Evernote Web Clipper if you haven’t
installed it, or you’ll be asked to upgrade it if you already have Chrome running.
Depending on when you’re watching this, it may be available in other browsers as well.
Full disclosure, this is September 13, 2013 that I’m recording this so depending on
when you are watching it, you may indeed have this version in your browser of choice.
Let’s take a look at it.
If you followed any of our other videos or you’re an Evernote user, you'll know Evernote
Web Clipper is this tremendous tool that installs in your browsers Tool Bar and it allows you
to basically capture and clip different things that you find online and store them in your
Evernote notebook.
It’s just a terrific research tool.
It’s a terrific tool for just capturing all the different pieces of information and
putting them in one place so that you can find them again in the future.
One of my favorite tools, actually but now it looks different.
So I’m going to click on it right here, Clip to Evernote, which is the same as it’s
always been.
Now it’s does a few things.
I’m still kind of figuring out the interface so you’ll have to excuse me if I make a
few little mistakes but what it did right away as soon as I clipped it is it took a
screenshot of my entire screen.
That’s new.
It didn’t use to do that.
It used to bring up an option that allowed you to mark here the area that you wanted
to take a screenshot.
I’m not sure I love this option or not.
I still haven’t really integrated it in my process but this is what’s brand new.
Instead of having the Evernote Web Clipper tools appear in the middle of the screen,
not it’s in this bar that slides out from the side of your browser that you see here.
We see our options as far as doing capture.
Now it’s by default set to screenshot.
If I actually choose one of these different presets, it won’t take that screenshot right
away.
I should point out that that screenshot is now only in Evernote’s memory.
It hasn’t been saved anywhere until we actually save it so if I escape out of this, I haven’t
saved the screenshot onto my Desktop or onto Evernote or onto anything else.
It’s just in the Clipboard right now.
Here are my options for capturing this page.
I like some of these things.
They’ve integrated some of the tools from some of their other utilities as well such
as Evernote Clearly.
Look, if I choose to view this page as a simplified article, it will take out all of the extraneous
information and take just the core information.
Things like advertising and all those extra things will be removed from the page if I
choose to view the simplified article, which is often what you’re going to want to do.
Let me give you a better example of how this might work.
I’m going back into just my normal browser.
Typically as you’re browsing around, finding information, you may be reading about some
science article here on ZDNet and if I was to clip this page into my Evernote Notebook,
I would have all of these advertisers, I’d have all the related stories, I’d have all
of this extra information that’s on this web page.
Watch what happens when I click on Evernote and then I choose Simplified Article.
It will now strip all of that extra information away and now if I decide to save this, I’ve
just got the meat of the story.
That to me is a really elegant use of Evernote.
Now that is incorporating a tool or a utility that Evernote’s been building for a long
time, this little lamp icon here.
That's called Evernote Clearly and that has allowed us to go to web pages and strip the
extraneous information out while we’re reading them for a very long time.
Now before I move on, let’s just talk about what we do with this once we’ve got the
article that we want.
We can still save it and share it.
If I click Save, I can save it to whatever notebook I want within my Evernote Notebook.
I’m not going to go into too much detail there.
Look at the new Sharing window.
When I call up Sharing, it then saves the clip and it allows me to share it on Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, or send it to email.
That gives me some really nice social sharing and email sharing options with this particular
document.
Now when it shares it, it’s not going to send the entire document with all the photos.
Instead what it’s going to do is it’s going to share an Evernote link, which means
it’s going to save it in your notebook and then it’s going to send a link, make that
a shared link, send it to other people so they have to click on that link and then they
can see all the information.
It’s actually quite elegant.
Now Evernote has integrated Clearly, as you can see, with the Evernote Web Clipper.
The other thing that they’ve integrated with it is they integrated a lot of Skitch.
Now Skitch is Evernote’s tool that allows me to markup different screenshots.
When I click on the Screenshot Capture, as soon as I do that, before I do anything else
with it, I can now mark it up and start to use these markup tools here to be able to
talk about what’s in the document, make notes, and be able to basically mark up whatever
it is.
I do want to show you one other thing.
If we go back into the Menu here, if we choose Bookmark it then captures some extra information
about the website and it captures and saves it as a bookmark within your Evernote notebook.
For me, that’s the best way to save bookmarks rather than saving them on the web browser
because I’ve always got Evernote with me and it just makes it more elegant as far as
sharing and remembering where the different bookmarks are.
The one thing that I’m not sure I’m crazy about is if we go back into the Screenshot
Mode where we’re taking a screenshot of it, if we want to get anything below the fold,
we have to choose full page here from the Menu.
So it doesn’t quite as elegant for just highlighting an area of a page and saving
it.
But once you have taken a screenshot, you can crop it using the tools that came over
from Skitch.
You can actually crop the page if you choose to use the different cropping tools here,
for people who choose to just save a smaller part of the page.
So I think we’ve lost a little bit.
We’ve lost that ability to just be able to click on a page, highlight what you want
to copy, and then copy it really quickly.
That was always really efficient.
But if you think about copying more information and a little more organization in your clipping
from the web, I think that they’ve dramatically improved things with the new Evernote Web
Clipper.
Before you leave, give me 30 seconds.
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