
While this is unlikely to stop the NSA, the company says it intends to beef up the strength of its encryption. Instead, Evernote uses a 64-bit RC2 key derived from the passphrase to protect the selected data. Encrypted data isn’t accessible to the company, and no encryption keys or passphrases are stored online. When necessary, Evernote can encrypt either selected parts of a note or the entire note. Notebooks can be shared with read-only rights (useful for reference materials, company-wide memos and business process documentation) or with the ability to make change things (excellent for collaboration).Įvernote lets users share notes and notebooks and assign different rights to different users. Both notebooks and individual notes can be shared via a unique URL link.

Where available, additional pertinent information, including the profile picture, are pulled from the social network into the contact note.Īside from its use as a standalone tool for personal productivity, Evernote users have the capability to share their content. (The feature is currently available for Evernote for iPhone and iPad, though Evernote says it’s coming to Android soon.)Įvernote also offers integration between scanned business cards and LinkedIn’s database. After adjusting for skew, Evernote converts each card into editable text that becomes a contact note.

In this mode, the camera scans for the outline of a business card and snaps a photo once it’s ready. In Evernote Premium, this extends into PDF files and other attached documents.Ī new “Business Card” mode (also a Premium feature) turns Evernote into a name card scanner. Indeed, Evernote’s powerful search capabilities are a primary reason why Evernote has proven to be so popular. This makes them searchable, which can be a lifesaver for users who work with many PDF documents or photos. Images captured in Photos mode won’t be modified those captured in Document mode have their backgrounds stripped away, with the resulting image automatically processed for better text clarity.Īll images uploaded to Evernote are processed using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and indexed accordingly. To simplify matters, Evernote allows images to be captured as a square Note, a Photo or a Document. Snapping a picture is another quick way to capture information in Evernote.

The app works well with standalone images and can save completed images directly into an Evernote account. In the same vein, Skitch, a free image editing utility, makes it easy to annotate and edit images and screenshots. Web Clipper is available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. To lower the barrier of shifting data, the Evernote Web Clipper browser extension lets users capture and save the contents of a webpage.
