Evernote Amazes - Attach File Works on Hyperlinks!
Earlier in the year I lamented that Evernote did not have hyperlinks. Since then Evernote has added note linking, so I tried the free version, and almost immediately went for the paid version. I have built a hypertext document of how my families IT works (it takes an annoying amount of IT skills to keep our household all running. Nas, Backups, Wireless, CAT6, …).
I was getting annoyed with Evernote, trying to clip resources URL in a web browser that are PDFs (it doesn’t work in Chrome right now on Windows - only the URL is clipped). So I tried “File/Attach Files” and pasted the URL to the PDF from the browser into Evernote. I didn’t expect it to work, but it did. A bit of a workaround - it would be better if the web clipper just worked, but still a great feature, and very usefil in many circumstances. Could be better named though.
Wouldn’t it be great if all programs, like our email programs (outlook, Mail.app) could attach files from your intranet or the web this way to an existing open document? On a daily basis I need to attach documents from my intranet to an email I am writing. Opening the document from the intranet and then clicking the icon to mail the document to someone just doesn’t work - it brings up a modal box for me to edit a new mail, when I already have an email drafted. Grrr.
On the Mac in Safari, I could not attach a PDF to a note using its URL, which is too bad. Probably the fault of the Mac common dialogs as opposed to Evernote design (and I love the dialogs on the mac are pretty common and work well with Quicksilver and any shortcuts I set up). However, at least for PDFs, you can print them and the Save to Evernote should appear in your menu as one of the options. If it doesn’t you will have to figure this out - I think if you download from App Store you may have trouble.