I am worried about the monthly data limits on my Evernote account, though. I really wanted the OCR capability to work, but I suppose speech-to-text could be another option. One thing Evernote does have, however, is a pretty good Dictate feature that I have used from time to time at conferences to catch longer interviews and presentations. You can export an OCR note to an ENEX file, but when you open the thing in a text editor, it’s so heavily marked up you can’t get the text out easily at all. There’s no magical “here’s your text” feature for me to cut and paste content into a story. I take written notes copiously (I own fountain pens and Moleskines by the dozens) and writing-to-text would be awesome with a cross-platform app.īut nope, Evernote’s OCR, which pretty good, only indexes snapshots for note searching.
I got really excited when I heard about Evernote’s improvements to Page Camera, and was hoping to try them out to pull my written notes into text via Evernote’s optical character recognition. (Evernote does work very well on my Android browser, but honestly, I don’t use my phone to surf around aimlessly much.) Except Evernote’s integration in iOS Safari doesn’t work half the time, which is too bad because iPad time (unlike computer time) is usually great for blue sky meandering. I would like to be able to stick websites into Evernote’s notebooks in “blue sky” mode, which is when I am just surfing around and might happen to catch my eye on something that I might want to come back to later.
The problem is, unless I am working on a really big story, “later” is usually “now,” and I have all the tabs in my browser nicely open for me to reference. I know that as I move around from site to site on the Internet, looking for material to source for an article, I can easily assign sites to individual notebooks in Evernote so I can come back to them later. Even as a Premium user, which I am, at the urging of my colleagues.
Yet every time I try Evernote, it never seems to be quite all there for me. Many of my colleagues recommend it, and since they are in the business of writing content for the Interwebs, what’s good for them should be good for me, right? For some inexplicable reason, I have never been able to really truly integrate Evernote into my daily work environment.
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