Idea for new feature: culling questions and to-dos

[EvanM 4]

I use Evernote a lot for note taking in sales meetings.  It would be great if there was a way to highlight a passage from a note, and click a button and have that passage automatically copied into a predetermined note.

 

This would be incredibly useful for pulling out customer questions that I need to follow-up on, or other action items that come from meetings.

 

It's not a feature that I've seen anywhere else, but it would be incredibly value to me and others (I suspect) who take these sorts of notes.

 

Thank you!

Evan

[gazumped 9,825]

Hi Evan - what are you taking notes on?  This would be easy(ish) in a laptop where you could Ctrl+N a new note and copy/ paste a section of text into it from eslewhere,  or you could run one copy of your account on the desktop,  and another in a web browser.  You'd be able to create new notes whilst also adding to a current meeting note.

[EvanM 4]

Sometimes it's a Mac, sometimes it's an iPad with a keyboard.

 

I suppose I could keep a couple of side-notes open (Questions and Tasks) on the Mac, but I keep thinking how cool this feature would be. I've never seen a feature like it.  Especially on a tablet.

[JMichaelTX 4,105]

I use Evernote a lot for note taking in sales meetings.  It would be great if there was a way to highlight a passage from a note, and click a button and have that passage automatically copied into a predetermined note.

 

This would be incredibly useful for pulling out customer questions that I need to follow-up on, or other action items that come from meetings.

 

It's not a feature that I've seen anywhere else, but it would be incredibly value to me and others (I suspect) who take these sorts of notes.

 

Thank you!

Evan

 

Since you're running EN Mac, I think this is very doable using AppleScript, and maybe using Keyboard Maestro.

In either case you could setup a shortcut key to active the script.

 

Just checked on this, and it looks like there is a current BUG in Evernote AppleScript support for "append".

But this approach used to work.  The code is good.

See 

Applescript and "append" - Evernote

[EvanM 4]

I found a tool that does exactly what I was looking for and a lot more.  Thank you for inspiring me to look for something external.

 

The tool is a Mac-only tool called PopClip.  You highlight some text, and you can choose from over 125 different things that can be done to that text.  one of them is creating a new note in EN, another is to create To-Dos in a variety of To-Do applications.  Works perfectly!

 

Thank you very much!

Evan

[JMichaelTX 4,105]

Wow!  At first glance, PopClip looks awesome!  I need to check it out.

Thanks for sharing.