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Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by bradgessler »

So far, my experience with Evernote has been watching them make Skitch almost unusable. The app always forgets my Skitch credentials, keeps displaying the startup screen even when I check "Do not show this to me again", and tries to force me into an Evernote account. At one point they changed Skitch to display 10 different things I could do after an upload. They made it a real mess.

I assume Evernote's products are overly complicated, but I'd like to know if they just botched the Skitch acquisition. Does anybody have any insight into this?

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by tcc2161 »

This should be ideal for someone like me, but unfortunately I can't see myself using it. I have a shelf full of Moleskins (began buying them in 2005) and I was a premium Evernote user from 2009-2011. But I canceled my Evernote subscription because I never used the software - I really dislike their UI. The only thing that could bring me back to them is a UI redesign, to make it seem less like an email application and more like a file-sorting system, which is what it's supposed to be.

And the idea of taking pics of my notebook pages with my phone is too clunky.

However, I'll grant that this is why this doesn't work * for me * and express envy for those for whom it does work for, since "on paper" all of this seems like a great idea. Having notebook pages scanned and sortable would be wonderful.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by icebraining »

sbanach wrote: post #14
mumrah wrote: post #11

Stickers are a neat idea, but why not just some special drawn symbol? Would be way cool if you could define your own.

Uh, because with a drawn symbol you wouldn't need their thirty dollar notebooks?

You'd still need the pages with the "special dotted paper pattern".

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by yock »

Yes, but how far is this from just using standard/college/quad ruled paper in the first place? Requiring special paper automatically limits the feature's utility. Once their "limited edition" notebooks sell out this feature immediately begins the countdown to uselessness.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by jasonlotito »

yock wrote: post #25

Yes, but how far is this from just using standard/college/quad ruled paper in the first place? Requiring special paper automatically limits the feature's utility. Once their "limited edition" notebooks sell out this feature immediately begins the countdown to uselessness.

> Yes, but how far is this from just using standard/college/quad ruled paper in the first place?

Not far. Most of the features, it seems, do not really require the notebook. But it also seems that it wouldn't be difficult to eventually add support for any old notebook to allow for automatic alignment.

So when you say....

> Requiring special paper automatically limits the feature's utility.

...I can't help but think it allows them to get the feature out sooner before refining it.

> Once their "limited edition" notebooks sell out

they'll be offering normal edition notebooks, as well as providing better support for other notebooks.

I really don't see the features here as something they are just going to limit to a limited time physical product.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by Groxx »

AhtiK wrote: post #16
orjan wrote: post #5

"we designed a special dotted paper pattern" - this sounds very much like what Anoto[1] does. [1] http://www.anoto.com/the-technology-1.aspx

Wacom went the opposite way for obvious reasons - digital pen that works with any paper. Wacom Inkling, http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Inkling

neat idea, but this kills it for me:

>How accurate are the sketches?

In general, sketches with Inkling will be accurate to within approximately +/- 0.1 inches (+/- 2.5 mm) in the main drawing area of an A4 page, and within (approximately +/- 0.2 inches (+/- 5.0 mm) at the edges of the page.

2.5mm is quite a large fuzz factor. Enough to make me think this could be great for very-rough sketching / outlining of a design, but not enough for replacing scanning / doing (essentially) OCR.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by JabavuAdams »

icebraining wrote: post #24
sbanach wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, because with a drawn symbol you wouldn't need their thirty dollar notebooks?

You'd still need the pages with the "special dotted paper pattern".

No, stickers could serve that function. Google "registration marks"
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