6 replies to this topic

[BSebastian]

I recently started using Clearly, and I love it. I love that you can highlight and sync to Evernote to read later, but once you decide to read later, the experience is not that great.

When I'm in Evernote, and decide to read something, I wish there was a "Clearly" button to read it in the same beautiful format that you can when you're seeing it in the web browser. The native Evernote reading experience is not as nice as Clearly.

I know that I can click the URL from within evernote and be taken back to the original website, and from there I can read on, but if I decide to highlight anything, instead of "syncing" with the originally saved evernote, it creates a brand new one, and then I am left with 2 nearly identical notes.

It would be nice if there was a way to keep the sync continuous throughout your experience, and maybe also a way to read a synced note "in Clearly" without having to leave Evernote and go back to the browser.

[Helen5555]

These were my thoughts precisely. I love Clearly, but if there were a way of syncing highlights made later to the same note, this would be amazing.

Thank you for the great work!

[Helen5555]

(I see that there is a merge function for notes in EN, but this doesn't seem to preserve all highlighting of both notes merged.)

[JuanO]

Agreed! Clearly is beautiful. Sorry to ninja the post, but I want Clearly for iPhone as well as for the desktop.

If I don't finish reading the article or if I save something else for later, I often have more time to read from my phone. I use Pocket and have Instapaper, but it seems like just opening a Clearly app that is hooked up to a specific notebook or notebooks would make more sense.

I digress... Clearly is awesome.

[h10n]

Probably the main reason for this experience is that Evernote's default rendering for notes is just the usually WYSIWYG editor/renderer. So once a note is added in a given format, it will always be rendered as such. To be some competition for Instapaper and Pocket there would have to be a way to influence that rendering, some form or scaling/zooming beyond just increasing the font-size.

[djmutiny]

100% agree with the original post. Would be hugely helpful to have Clearly as a view option for existing notes.

[Fbious]

Yes yes and yes again.

There should definitely be a way to see a saved article in "clearly" form, both in the web app and in
the mobile apps, highlights and all.

As of now, the only way i see to do something like that on the web app is to go to the original article web
address and click again on clearly, which somewhat defies the purpose of saving the article to Evernote
in the first place.