Instead of building an iOS version of the web clipper, Evernote created an extension to save any kind of file or data from any app – not just Safari. It’s a basic but handy widget, and I’ve been using it every day to quickly create new text or photo notes. When tapped, these buttons go directly to the relevant section in the Evernote app: the Camera button will launch the camera mode in Evernote, while the list one will start a new checklist and let you type the first item. Once enabled, Evernote can display five buttons in the Today view of Notification Center to let you create a text note, a reminder, a checklist, or notes with photos from the camera or your library. With iOS 8, Evernote decided to address the problem of quick note creation in two ways: a widget and a share extension. The app couldn’t extend beyond its sandbox and users had to open the app to create notes this was in stark contrast with Evernote for the desktop, which offers a web clipper, a bookmarklet, and, on OS X, a menu bar popup to type anything and save it for later. This is changing today with Evernote 7.5, which adds extensions for iOS 8 to let you save anything from anywhere with just two taps.įor Evernote, quick note creation has always been an issue on the iOS platform. Evernote suffered in its transition to iOS devices as it couldn’t be as flexible as the Mac app: Evernote is only as good as the ways it gives you to create notes, and the iOS app couldn’t use the best one – the clipper. I started using Evernote in 2009, and it’s become an external brain where I archive everything that I need to remember but not store in my own brain. While I’m almost religious about plain text and Markdown for my articles, anything else goes into Evernote: PDFs, screenshots, photos with GPS information, my shared shopping list, and any other note that has a visual component (such as formatting or hyperlinks).
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