Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you doing this fine day?
Me?
I am feeling particularly grateful today for the great community we have on YouTube because
you folks are recommending some great demos for me to share with you.
Case in point: our friend, John Marshall when he was watching a video that we did on Scannable,
the Evernote scanning app, recommended that I take a look at SnapEntry.
I think that is could also pronounce is Snapentry but it seems to me it should be Snap Entry.
Doesn’t it seem that way to you?
Indeed.
At any rate, John said that he thought that we, the community, might enjoy a demo of SnapEntry
so I took a quick look at it, liked it, put it on the roster and now I am sharing with
you SnapEntry today on DottoTech.
So this is fantastic, having people in the community recommending demos and I love it.
So if you have great ideas of products that you want to share and you want to see more,
please share them with us here on the YouTube channel.
I can’t promise that I have time or the ability to demonstrate every product but I
look at each and every one and indeed I do consider each one as we go along.
So let’s take a look right now at SnapEntry.
Now what is SnapEntry?
It’s a very simple, little tool that allows us to quickly create notes and share them
to Evernote.
Now you might have a little bit of confusion as to where the value lies in a tool that
allows you to create a note in Evernote and then export it to Evernote because you’re
saying to yourself, “Steve, I don’t quite understand.
Why don’t I just create the note in Evernote?”
Well, I will tell you why.
This isn’t for everybody but if I’m describing something that’s an issue for you then a
tool like SnapEntry indeed becomes valuable.
If I’m creating notes, I’m always in a hurry it seems when I’m creating a note.
I want to do it the most quick and efficient way and the challenge with creating a note
in the Evernote mobile apps is it’s a very rich environment.
There’s a lot of moving parts in our app so that it takes a few clicks to navigate
through and sometimes it even takes one, “Where am I?” and wandering to go back and forth
before you can indeed create a new note.
If that doesn’t bother you, if it has never been an issue for you and you never feel like
you’d like to find a faster method for entering the note, then just enter notes natively in
Evernote and you are in great shape.
If you’re in a bit more of a hurry and you think $2.29 might be worth well spending in
order to have quicker access, then SnapEntry might be for you.
Now what SnapEntry does is it really streamlines the entire note-taking process.
I’m going to open SnapEntry and what it does is it brings up our keyboard.
Any of your installed keyboards will work in SnapEntry but the main thing is this little
bar that we see here above the keyboard.
This gives us quick access to a lot of the formatting and different features within Evernote.
Let me just paste in a note that I’ve already created.
This is a to-do list or a checklist.
I’m going to San Diego next week so these are things that I might want to do.
Using the different tools at the bottom, I can make things into a checklist item, I can
turn other items into bullet points, should I choose to.
If I want to, I can take the entire note and by hitting on the little reminder icon, I
can issue a reminder to myself.
Now this is going to use Evernote’s built-in native reminders.
All of these different formatting things that we’re adding to this note will apply in
Evernote directly.
I can make a reminder out of this as well just by hitting the checkpoint there.
If I choose to, I can also go and I can put in the time and date of the note, which is
ideal if you’re using it for journaling and that sort of stuff or you want to take
notes of when your note is taken.
Then it also extends the functionality quite a bit by allowing us to access the camera
within our smartphone and be able to take pictures of items and include them in the
note as well.
Once the note is completely formatted and ready to go, we hit that little airplane icon,
kind of the paper airplane and that then syncs it directly into Evernote.
It’s a very seamless and quick service.
But before I show you that, I’m going to show you one last feature.
They’ve added some extra gestures.
With my finger if I swipe from the left to the right, it will bring out all of my different
notebooks because it’s synced and it’s connected to my Evernote account.
I can choose to save any of these notes that I’m creating directly into the appropriate
notebook and if I go in the opposite direction, it brings out all of my tags so that I can
apply all of my tags.
It’s a very rich, kind of mini Evernote environment where you can create a note, apply
all of the different formatting and different communication options to that note that we
would be interested in doing but it does it all from a very simple interface.
Once that’s all said and done, you just hit Send and now it syncs through to Evernote.
Now it will take a second to go through it all but I’ll go into Evernote and show you
just to prove to you that indeed, it did work.
We’ll go into Evernote.
We’ll let Evernote sync up.
We’re going to view all of our notes and there’s our to-do list for San Diego that
we just created and synced through.
So we see it has come through effortlessly.
It’s not for everybody.
As I say, if it doesn’t bother you going through and navigating through Evernote itself
to create your note then there’s very little value in a tool like SnapEntry.
However, if you think it would be really convenient to be able to quickly create notes on the
fly using the different keyboards—I’ve done voice dictation if I chose to or if I
wanted to use the Ginger keyboard, using any of the other keyboards and any other input
options that we have—if you would want to be able to do that very quickly and sync it
to Evernote with that simple service, than $2.29 might be a bargain indeed.
I hope you found today’s video to be useful.
Special thanks to John for recommending it.
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Until next time, I am Steve Dotto.
Have fun storming the castle!