6/18/11

Using Readabiliy and Evernote to capture items from the web

These two tools are excellent. I use Evernote to takes notes in my classes at school and to capture things I don’t want to forget. I wrote about Evernote before, in this entry. This is the routine I use to capture papers or articles from web pages to read on any device, including my “hand held,” no matter what size the screen. I want to demonstrate how I use them in tandem. This assumes you have Evernote and Readability accounts, and have installed Evernote and Readability in your browser.
  1. Find an article I want to save, e.g., .
  2. Click on your keyboard’s “right single quote” button (’) for the Readability
    bookmarklet. The page you are on will be converted to a more readable
    form.



  3. Send the “readable” page to Evernote by clicking on the Evernote icon
    on your browser.

    That action will bring up an Evernote quicknote
    You can see I selected “Clip full page” and “Save page URL.” This window also allows one to add tags and select the notebook. (If you are not logged into Evernote, you will have an opportunity
    to do that.)

Over on Evernote on the computer, we see the saved page.

On the handheld in Evernote, the articles are indeed readable.

Reading this, it might seem like there are a lot of steps. There are
only 3 when you find a page you want to save: click on readability; click on Evernote; and click to save to Evernote.

1 comment:

Fred Avolio said…

If using Safari, you can shortcut this a bit. Safari has no "Readability" extension. It has a "Reader" viewing option.

View/Enter Reader
File/Mail Contents of This Page, and send it to your Evernote email address.