Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you this fine day?
Me?
I am on a mission.
I’m on a mission because every week I spend a lot of time answering email from people
that say, “Steve, I watched your videos on Evernote.
I love the idea but I’m stuck.
I can’t figure out the Evernote Web Clipper.
You showed the Evernote Web Clipper one way but it works differently on my computer.”
I am going to fix that right now.
Fixing the stupid Evernote Web Clipper today on DottoTech.
Okay, maybe I was overreacting just a little bit.
It’s not stupid.
It’s an awesome too.
The Evernote Web Clipper, if you don’t know what it is it is this: you’re looking at
information online that you want to capture, you use the Evernote Web Clipper which brings
up this little dialog box that allows you to clip the article, a simplified article,
the full page, the bookmark or create a screenshot which you can take a picture of whatever content
you want and it saves it automatically into your Evernote account.
I’ve showed this in many of my webinars.
In all of my tutorials, I show people how to use the Evernote Web Clipper and then people
write me and say, “Steve, I think there’s something wrong with my computer, or me or
you.
The issue is I click on the Evernote Web Clipper and I don’t get that.”
The problem is you’re not clicking on the Evernote Web Clipper when you have this problem.
When you install the Evernote app on your computer, it installs in the Menu bar here
at the very top, it installs a little Evernote elephant.
See it right there?
That the elephant that people are clicking on.
It’s actually their operating system and they get this which looks nothing like the
Evernote Web Clipper.
It’s simply a little tool that allows us to quickly create a note on Evernote.
It’s useful but it’s not the Web Clipper and it drives me a little bit crazy.
That is what people are clicking on.
Do you see there?
This is where we want to click.
Look in the web browser window.
The Evernote Web Clipper installs in your browser as an extension, as an add-on to your
browser.
I am in the Chrome browser here and when I click on the Evernote icon here, up comes
the Web Clipper.
If you don’t know how to install it, if you don’t know what it is, let me show you
how to install it.
Let’s go into Safari.
If you’re on the Mac and then Safari and then you don’t have the Evernote Web Clipper,
you can go into your Safari extensions which basically launches a web page at Apple which
allows you to search for extensions.
Let’s do a quick search.
I’m going to type in “Evernote Web Clipper” and it comes up with the Evernote Web Clipper
here, which I can click on Install Now and then it will install it as an extension.
Now the Evernote Web Clipper when we launch it on Safari, up it comes just as it’s supposed
to.
Shall we do it again?
Yes, let’s do it one more time.
Let’s install it in FireFox.
Now in Firefox you go to a slightly different place.
You go onto the Tools menu and you click on Add-ons.
When you go into the Add-ons, click on Extensions and then do a search for “Evernote Web Clipper”
again.
Up it comes and just click on Install.
It then installs it and then once Firefox restarts, we can launch the Evernote Web Clipper
in Firefox.
Now one caveat about the Firefox install of the Evernote Web Clipper is it’s more the
old school one.
It doesn’t have the newer graphics that we are seeing in Safari and in Chrome but
it does the same thing.
It will allow you to choose which notebooks it’s going to be clipped to.
It will allow you to choose different clipping styles.
It just doesn’t do quite as much but still most of the functionality is right here and
it’s here in the browser.
So I hope this alleviates some of the confusion.
The bottom line is don’t go to your Menu bar for the Evernote Web Clipper even though
you see the elephant there.
Instead, go to the top of your browser, the top of the browser bar and that is where you
go to clip to Evernote and you will be happy and I will be happy.
I hope you found today’s video to be useful.
I hope you found it useful.
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Till next time, I am Steve Dotto.
Have fun storming the castle.