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[David Lozzi]

Michael - I haven't yet, will soon though!

[gbarry]

"Sonic" QR codes. Whoa.

http://www.wired.co....nicnotify-audio

[BurgersNFries]

"Sonic" QR codes. Whoa.

http://www.wired.co....nicnotify-audio

Dude.

Outer Limits.

[gbarry]

I think it's pretty awesome that a record label is fronting it. I'll probably do a little more research and start something in the OT area about this, since it's not really about using QR codes in EN.

[gtuckerkellogg]

Remote control dogs!

[jefito]

We're living in the future!!

[anjoschu]

Here's a post I made someplace else back in September:

To people who are trying to find more uses for QR Codes: "think URL". Much very specific -- and useful -- information can be transported via URLs nowadays. And, as the web is progressing, you can stand on the shoulders of giants. Another good way to think of QR Codes is "object/location bookmarks". The information transported becomes relevant in the situation/place you're in right now. For example, a QR code on a beamer at school or university could bring up its user manual or link to a way to reserve it for a future lesson.

Let me just rattle down some examples from a common household situation to give a better impression: Adorn your TV's remote control with a code which links to the current TV programme or IMDB. Put a QR code up next to the coat hanger which links to your local weather. Put a QR code up next to your door that shows you what trains/buses are leaving next from your local bus/tram/train station (via a specific query of your local transportation services). Keep your shopping list in Remember The Milk, make a QR code linking to that list and stick it on the fridge. Use QR codes to broadcast recurring events to members your family, like round-tweets/texts "I'm going shopping right now. Need anything?", which you can e.g. put on that reusable shopping bag that you keep in your car. Can't remember that darn WiFi configuration of yours that you only need to remember once every year? Put it in Evernote and link to it via a QR code that you slap on your WiFi router (or, if you must, create a plain-text-QR code if the configuration is stable). Doing GTD? Stick QR codes to specific locations where one or the other GTD context becomes relevant. which Slap QR codes on your more complex electronic devices which link to a PDF version of the user manual.

Maybe this list also triggers one or the other cool idea. :-)

Hint: URLs with queries etc. can become quite complex. You can use an url shortener like goo.gl. If you use goo.gl, you can simply add ".qr" to the end of the short url to create a QR code to print out. Pretty nifty, eh?

Hint 2: Most URL shorteners only support "http://" URLs and can't deal with custom URI schemes like "evernote://". But good old tinyurl.com does! You also need to pay attention to install a scanner app on your smartphone which supports custom URI schemes.

[MattB]

These are all awesome ideas using QR and I'd like to get started with some of my own uses within Evernote. I'm currently "hung up" on one of the steps / concepts.

I would like to create a QR code that opens an Evernote Note on my iPhone4S running Evernote 5 for iOS. However, I DO NOT want each and every stranger or random person who stumbles upon that QR to be able to scan it and read my Evernote Note contents.

It seems like creating a link to a note in Evernote generates a URL which is then publically accessible on the web for anyone to read. Is this correct or incorrect?

Is there a way to create a private / confidential link to an Evernote Note which would be accessible with a mobile device? If so, then I can accomplish what I would like to do.

Any thoughts?

-matt

[qot]

This is a brilliant idea!!

Can I suggest as an alternative to use Data Matrix codes instead of QR Codes. They're essentially the same thing, but require less pixels for an Evernote link than a QR Code does, which means you can print them smaller while still being readable (see below). Any app that reads QR Codes will read Data Matrix as well.

Generator here: http://datamatrix.kaywa.com/

Encoding this link: evernote:///view/658078/s3/b3be5f98-e5f0-478b-8540-0de5b7acd3f8/b3be5f98-e5f0-478b-8540-0de5b7acd3f8/

Data Matrix:
 1.png   647bytes   2 downloads

QR Code:
 2.png   2.8K   3 downloads

[qot]

It seems like creating a link to a note in Evernote generates a URL which is then publically accessible on the web for anyone to read. Is this correct or incorrect?

Incorrect. Copy the note link, rather than Share > Copy Note URL. Totally different options. One will start with "evernote://" and is private, and the other starts with "http://" and is public.

[jconkl02]

Does "evernote:///" do anything on a mobile device? I scan the QR code that I generated using the "evernote:///" style of address. I thought it would open Evernote Android (in my case), but it does not. It doesn't even open a browser and take me to my note via a mobile web brower. What good is it again?

[BurgersNFries]

Does "evernote:///" do anything on a mobile device? I scan the QR code that I generated using the "evernote:///" style of address. I thought it would open Evernote Android (in my case), but it does not. It doesn't even open a browser and take me to my note via a mobile web brower. What good is it again?

Did you share the note & use the sharing URL as the QR code? I'm pretty sure the note would have to be shared.

[MattB]

Thank you for all the replies. I was able to accomplish what I intended to do.

This is what I ended up doing:

I created a QR Code using the Note Share -> Copy Note URL to Clipboard. This created a shared note accessed to a public user via a webpage. When a user scanned the QR code it spawned a web browser which pulled put the shared Evernote Note.

On that shared note on my PC/Mac Evernote Application, I pasted in the "Copy Note Link" information at the top of the note. This created one of the evernote:/// style links and put it on the shared note webpage.

This QR code is placed onto a "widget" which is being tracked during a new product design phase. So a user can scan the QR code on the widget to view the information / history on the widget in the shared note on a web browser interface. If I use my iPhone to scan the QR code on the widget I view the same webpage where I can read the history of the widget but I can also touch on the "evernote:///" link I pasted into the shared note which then spawns Evernote App on my iPhone and pulls up the associated note. I can then edit / add information about the widget to the note on my phone. Right now I am the only one who updates information in the Evernote Note for each widget.

I hope this sparks some other ideas on how to use QR codes and Evernote links.

-matt

[dsgsdfe]

QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners,mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. It consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. Last time I used a C# QR Code barcode generator SDK to generate QR Code in C#. It's good. Anyone who interested can take a look at that site. Many other barcode generators can be found there, like Java QR Code barcode generator SDK, .NET QR Code barcode generator SDK, etc.

[tianlye]

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