Tag Archives: Evernote

Tutorial Released In Ebook And Paperback, Japanese Interface for Evernote Improved.

If you are Japanese and an Evernote user, you’re certainly feeling the love this week!

Veritrope.com reader Synkuro sent me a message this morning that lifehacking.jp contributor and author Masatake E. Hori has launched his ebook tutorial for Evernote. Written with the help of co-authors Shogo Sasaki and Etsuo Ohashi, “Evernote Handbook” is a guide for people just getting started with Evernote — but also contains tips for more advanced users!

Although my ability to understand Japanese is limited to slowly sounding out Hiragana and then acting like a delighted child when I recognize a word/sound, a Google Translation of the website suggests that buyers will receive free updates to the ebook as they are made available.

And if you like your books in a more traditional format, a different book in paperback written by Masato Kogure and Masaki Ishitani is also available for pre-sale on Amazon.jp.

Phil Libin -- Getting The Rock Star Treatment!

The paperback appears to have at least one thing that the ebook doesn’t — a snazzy photo of Evernote CEO Phil Libin on the cover. According to Phil’s Twitter feed, the book is currently the 17th best-selling book on all of Amazon Japan which, if I were in his shoes, would engender a somewhat “Spinal Tap”-like feeling.

Yes — Japan loves Phil this week and, thankfully, it’s not just for his cover version of “Sex Farm”! The real reason is that Evernote just released version 1.70 of it’s Mac Client — with an improved Japanese translation of the program’s interface! (English-speaking computer users often forget just how spoiled we are to have most applications available primarily in our native language!). The release is a by-product of Evernote’s ongoing translation efforts — I really like their “crowd-sourcing” approach to this and hope that it becomes a trend in software development.

A Quick Reminder

A while ago, I added a social bookmarking button to Veritrope.com to let you send posts directly into your Evernote account — this is primarily for people who are on a work computer where they can’t install Evernote (or who are away from home). It is a tiny little thing, so I thought I’d call your attention to it in case you missed it….Clip away!!!

New Betas for Both Snow Leopard Search Services


A quick update for those not following on the Veritrope.com Twitter feed:

I’ve updated both Beta Versions of the Amazon.com Snow Leopard Search Service and the Evernote Snow Leopard Search Service to try and fix some bugs with the installer. If a previous version didn’t work for you — or if you’ve recently upgraded to Snow Leopard — give them a whirl and let me know what you think!

And as always, the Veritrope.com Snow Leopard Services Directory is frequently updated with all the latest, greatest Snow Leopard services that I can find for you…. 😀

MacJournal News: Updated AppleScripts, Macworld Review, and MacHeist

Now There Are **TWO** Evernote-to-MacJournal AppleScripts…

There are now two Evernote-to-MacJournal Exporter scripts included in the downloadable ZIP archive: One that attempts to preserve the formatting of the Evernote item by importing it into MacJournal as a Read-Only Web Archive formatted file, and another that will create an Editable RTF file that may not retain as much of the original formatting and/or embedded images.

I wrote the original script to convert the HTML files that Evernote exports into a slightly different format called a “Web Archive” which bundles in all of the embedded images and information so that the note will look the same inside of MacJournal. The only problem is that MacJournal doesn’t edit that format (yet). Dan Schimpf (the developer behind MacJournal) and I have been trading some emails about it and he is looking into some options to enable Web Archive editing within MacJournal. Until then (or until I can figure out a better way of doing it), you’ll have to use two different scripts depending upon if you want to edit the contents of the note inside of MacJournal right away.

Macworld Reviews MacJournal 5

In his review for Macworld, William Porter gives MacJournal 5 a ranking of Four-And-A-Half Mice (Out Of Five).

MacHeist?

The teaser page for the MacHeist bundle is now live a few days before it goes on sale… and even though there’s been no official announcement, I couldn’t help but notice an icon on one of the boxes being loaded out of the truck!

Anyone who has been waiting to pick up a copy of MacJournal should get their credit cards ready! 😉