What I’d like to see...

‘d like to see a fea­ture added to Evernote that would allow me to pub­lish to WordPress, Delicious or Twitter from within the Evernote desk­top appli­ca­tion. That would really stream­line my day-to-day work, since I’ve more or less mar­ried Evernote now.

I know you can “pub­lish” your Evernote note­books, but they appear only on the Evernote site. Yes, they have RSS feeds, but I’m not inter­ested in pulling out an RSS, repars­ing it and hav­ing to go through a riga­ma­role to get what I want posted to my blog.

Okay, Mr. Smart Guy. I know I could just use Google Docs. I think I even remem­ber some rudi­men­tary tag­ging fea­ture built in to it, though I could be wrong on that. But you know, I don’t trust Google Docs com­pletely yet. I admit it; I haven’t yet placed all my eggs into the Cloud. (Plus, Google Docs doesn’t react well with my blog — adds all kinds of funny for­mat­ting I don’t like.)

The beauty of Evernote is that it has the desk­top apps. (The Mac ver­sion is freak­ing awe­some.) The desk­top ver­sions are fast and store local copies of what I’m work­ing on, which means I can eas­ily con­tinue work­ing with­out Internet access. (I think I remem­ber Google adding this fea­ture... can’t be sure with­out the tedious chore of vis­it­ing a dif­fer­ent Web page than the one I’m on.)

So for­get about sug­gest­ing alter­na­tives to me if they come from 37Signals (I don’t want to pay) and Google (I’m just being stub­born). I’m com­mit­ted to Evernote, like I said.

And that said, I guess what I’d like to see is a col­lab­o­ra­tive ver­sion of Evernote (essen­tially like Google Docs but with the Evernote sticker on it).

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