Tag Archives: iphone

Nov200921

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Another use for Evernote: Collect conference material

Before I’ll leave for DrupalCamp Vienna on Thursday night, I’ll have some preparations left to do. Where should I gather all the stuff — the hotel confirmation, the train reservation, links to places in Vienna I’d like to see? While many items land inside my email inbox, there also are website snapshots and other documents. And then, there’s the material I’ll collect at the conference itself: photos, notes, slides etc.

Evernote_Icon.jpgIt’s great timing that Michael Gray just published his article, How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide.

Although I’m already an Evernote premium subscriber, that’s a use case I haven’t thought of until now. But of course: Evernote will willingly store all the stuff I drop into or email to the notebook “DrupalCamp Vienna” that I just created. With my iPhone, I can shoot snapshots of presentation slides with my iPhone and have them made searchable through the Evernote text recognition mechanism. I’ll even be able to record sound snippets to transcribe later. This really makes sense.

Thanks for the tip, Michael!

Mai200929

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Shooting closeups with the iPhone

If you’ve tried to do short distance photos with the iPhone, you know that it can’t focus any more if the item is only a few centimetres away. I noticed this shortcoming when I had the idea to photograph all my collected business cards and make them searchable in Evernote. Their OCR just couldn’t make sense of those blurry letters.

But I’ve found a solution. The Griffin Clarify case not only protects my iPhone from hits and scratches, but also adds a lens that I slide over the camera window when I’m going to do closeup shots.

With the Clarify, I’ve got rid of all business cards. I now can search for a name on Evernote and get a sharp photo of the card back.

Goodbye Rolodex. Hello iPhone.