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Posted by Phil Libin at 1:09 pm in General
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January 27th, 2010
Evernote loves tablets. We’ve got a long and storied history with tablets of all kinds. Got an old tablet lying around somewhere? Chances are we either developed technology for it, had applications that ran on it, or both. Usually both.
Remember the awesome Apple Newton? Evernote’s current R&D engineers developed the handwriting recognition technology that made it so notable (and ahead of its time). Remember those Doonesbury strips making fun of the Newton? You know who cried when those came out? We did. Well, not me personally, I was in college and the Newton was at the top of my unattainable gadget drool-list, but the guys sitting next to me right now clutching their Newton prototypes while watching the Apple liveblogs did. I’ve got those Donnesbury strips in my Evernote account now.
We’ve also been on just about every other form of tablet known to man. The original version of Evernote was written to run on Tablet PCs and the digital ink technology in the current version of Evernote for Windows is still the best in the industry. I even use an old Hitachi slate as a drink tray at home. Tablets are our roots, man. Our roots.
So naturally, we’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about our plans for supporting Apple’s hitherto-mythical tablet device, but we’ve avoided answering them just in case it turned out not to be a tablet but, um, a shoe or something. Still, we always hoped it’d be a tablet. You always remember your first love…
Anyway, now that the iPad has officially gone from “imminent!!” to “just announced!!” we can officially spill the beans on our official plans for Evernote on it. Here’s we go:
Evernote is going to support the Apple iPad. Oh Yeah. We’re gonna support the hell out of it. We’re glad to see that the current Evernote iPhone app will run on the iPad without modification, but we’ll be modifying it anyway to optimize the experience on the larger device. Oh how we’ll be modifying it! Expect rapid improvements to our iPhone app which will benefit all of our iPhone, iPod Touch and, now, iPad users in the near future.
Ok, so we’re excited by the iPad itself, and by the HP Slate, and the Sony VAIO L series, and the Nvidia Tegra, and by the added light that these and other devices will shine on touch computing in general. I’m looking at some happy engineers right now.
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Audio recording synced to note-taking, that would for me be killer Evernote/iPad feature.
For me, this could make it worth purchasing an iPad: after learning of it’s limitations, that it’s just a larger iPod Touch, I was not planning to invest in one. Evernote on the iPad makes it more than “just” an iPad…
In my dreams, the iPad version of Evernote supports digital ink notes that I can optionally convert (within the application or using a separate app) to text. With a tablet this size, I’ll want the option of using a stylus for notetaking (as well as paint programs).
Evernote on iPad might just get me to buy one. I was very dissapointed that iPad didn’t run full OS but Evernote might just make it worth it.
Evernote using Pogo Stylus for handwriting and doodling! Wow!
So the obvious would be to allow drawing on the iPad. The capacitive screen will not allow it to be a Wacom, but for simple sketches it would be valuable. I, of course, have a Wacom on my Mac but that is NOT supported, something I see as a severe oversight. And I do not see buying new hardware for the purpose of getting sketching on Evernote…
“In my dreams, the iPad version of Evernote supports digital ink notes that I can optionally convert (within the application or using a separate app) to text.”
Me too! I have two Newtons in the drawer, and the iPad could be so much more. I’ve been waiting for years for someone to match the capability of the Newton and as of yet is hasn’t happened. Lets hope the iPad is “the one”.
I knew there had to be a reason why I had decided to buy the iPad!
Local notes database on Ipad and fully-functional PDF preview (with zoom-in/zoom-out trigered by gestures) would mean a lot for me.
Agree with most of the above comments. The iPad is as good as the apps running on it, and Evernote is a potential killer app. Overcoming the limitations of the keyboard interface and allowing for truly natural note-taking on a form factor like the iPad would be phenomenally useful. Excited to see what you all bake up!
Would Love a highlighting feature where you could highlight in a book you’re reading and they would automatically sync with evernote.
it occurs to me that Google wave is more valuable as an integration point or api than an actual piece of “beta” software. what if Evernote could integrate with a Google wave account and allow wave like cooperative communication from across the room or across the world.
Just and idea.
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