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Five Features that would Awesomify EvernoteDecember 27 2008

Yes, I love Evernote. It is my newest obsession, and I just posted about how I think it has the potential for greatness. I also mentioned that there is still much room for improvement in Evernote’s offerings. I have been impressed with how quickly the development team puts out releases and new features so I am sure that they already have a roadmap for 2009 of enhancements. But I would like to propose a feature list of my own, some of which I am almost certain are already planned, but a couple of others they might not have thought of that I think could make a huge difference in the adoptability of the application.

1. Sharing notes with users and/or groups:
This one is a given… lots of people have been asking for it, so I’m sure it’s on the high priority list. Being able to share your Evernote notes or notebooks with other Evernote users in native format so that you can collaborate through your Evernote clients would open up a whole new realm of uses for the application and attract a lot of new users who would be interested in that feature-set by itself. It might also push a few more people over the fence in migrating from

Get it while it’s hot: Evernote Web Quickstart for C#December 26 2008

As a slightly late Christmas present to other C# web developers out there I’m releasing a project I put together that is a reference implementation with everything you need to get started with the Evernote web API for .Net 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008. The project has several helper wrapper classes to make your life easier: one for OAuth authentication, one for accessing the Evernote User and Note stores and a base page to use on any .ASPX page that automatically handles the OAuth plumbing for you.

This code is released under an MIT/X license so feel free to use and modify it as you see fit. At the very least it should provide a good example and launching point for your own projects.

To get started grab and unzip this Evernote note export file:

Once you’ve unzipped the .ENEX file it open your Evernote client and go to File > Import > Evernote Export Files… and import the note. You’ll find a zip file with the project source code as well as illustrated instructions for project setup steps.

If you have any questions please leave a comment or contact me at EvernoteAddict at Donaghe dot com.

Enjoy!

Update - If you don’t have a premium subscription you may not be able to import the note since it has a zip file attachment�

High on Evernote: Cloud Storage for ConsumersDecember 26 2008

Over the past few months I have become an addict of a service called Evernote. It was originally created a few years ago as a note keeping application as an alternative to Microsoft’s OneNote and other similar software. In mid 2008, Evernote’s creators revamped the application so that it kept a duplicate of your note data on their web servers and automatically synced the local copies of the notes. Subscriber data is accessible both via the Evernote web interface and the local machine client, which can be installed (and synchronized) between as many computers as the subscriber wishes.

The Evernote team has added a feature recently to premium subscriptions allowing the attachment and “in-note editing” of any type of file. I think this is the step that may make Evernote the first full realization of Cloud storage for mainstream consumers, and may put them on the road to be to personal data what Google is to public data.

For years now we’ve been told that it won’t be long until our digital life is completely “in the Cloud”, and that’s been something I have anxiously awaited. The Cloud means different things to di