Evernote have just released an awesome new feature whereby you can search all your notes direct from the Google Chrome Address bar.
For those of you that haven’t heard of it, Evernote is a fantastic app that allows you to capture lots of information in notes that can be synchronised across multiple devices/computers.
You can access these notes direct from the software on your computer, or via the web or even via your mobile device.
It’s really good and I’ve come to depend on it.
And now:
“Google Chrome’s address bar doubles as a search bar, which makes it really easy to search various sites without actually going to them first. Now, you can add Evernote as a search engine in Google Chrome and search your notes from anywhere. Here’s how to set it up:
Go to the Preferences (Mac) or Tools (Windows) menu
Click on the Manage button in the Default Search section
Click to add a new search engine
Type the following:
Name: Evernote
Keyword: Evernote.com
URL: http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%s”
And here’s a litte video to help you more:
Very nice Evernote, you just keep getting better and better!
I’ve finally forced myself to spend some proper time using and testing Google’s Chrome internet browser on my Macbook.
I must say I’m quite impressed…
Boy is it fast, and not just to load pages, but the whole app launching takes a fraction of the time of my regular browser, Firefox.
My biggest positive however is memory usage.
Those of you who end up with ten or twenty tabs open will, like me, probably notice your machines memory getting filled up, and also the processor can start to churn a lot, presumably trying to manage all the memory usage !
However one of Chrome’s much vaunted features is that every tab runs as its own process.
This is not something you really appreciate until you start using the browser for a while, but pretty soon you can appreciate how this helps keep the memory and processor footprint of the browser down to a minimum.
Obviously the Firefox plugins that you may have installed are not available for Chrome, however the only one I’m truly missing is 1Password which is kind of an essential in my day to day life.
How to Send Blog Posts from Google Reader to Evernote
August 14th, 2009
Google Reader now lets you send blog posts directly into Evernote. When you send a post to Evernote, we go out to the source page and clip the whole thing –that way you get everything, not just the bit that you see in Reader.
Why I love this feature
A lot of my web life can be broadly classified as research: recipes, drool-worthy gadgets, lifehacking ideas, articles to read, etc. Much of that stuff enter my consciousness through Google Reader. The usual workflow is something like–see an interesting post, go to the blog, clip it into Evernote for later, return to Reader. Now, I can do everything without leaving Reader. Awesome.
Super simple setup
Sign into Google Reader and click on the Settings link at the top of the page, then click on the “Send To” tab. Next, click “Create a Custom Link” and enter the following:
When you click your shiny new Send to Evernote button, a new tab will open asking you to sign into Evernote (if you haven’t done so recently), and to, optionally, select the destination notebook and add tags.
A little note
The results you will see are identical to clipping whole webpages using any of our web clippers, which means that you’ll get the content you want and some of the webpage element, too.
Google has lifted the lid on its updated search engine, which developers have nicknamed “Caffeine”.
Although still in the testing phase, the firm says it is the “first step in improving the speed, accuracy and comprehensiveness of search results”.
Martin McNulty of search marketing specialist Trafficbroker said the upgrade threatened to put Microsoft’s new engine, Bing, “in the shade”.
“Google have let Caffeine quietly slip out. It talked about vertical specific searches while quietly doubling the speed and starts introducing real-time results and news feeds,” he said.
“Bing was launched with a massive media budget.
“Trouble is, Bing presents itself as an alternative to something that users are still – for now – happy with,” he added.
