billpetro

On 1/27/2020 at 7:58 PM, EN_Enduser said:

This is brilliant. I had no idea that Nebo could export to PDF in a way that Evernote would change handwriting to text. This allows repurposing of Nebo handwriting in other tools, while keeping an archive in Evernote.

 

Late to this party here, I guess, but I thank you all for your advice. Thought I share my own findings about how to use Myscript Nebo and Evernote together:

- I write my handwritten notes in the Nebo app on my ipad, making use of the automatic and perfect OCR (kudos to Nebo)

- To store the original, handwritten file in Evernote, to stay organized,  I click (from the open Nebo file):

- ... (three dots on the top right of the screen)

- HTML

- "More" (another three dots button at the end of the app list). Make sure NOT to press the Evernote button that pops up before the three dots at this step!

-  Scroll down and click "copy to evernote"

This opens a note in Evernote with my original, handwritten Nebo file as ATTACHMENT.

I do this for notes I would like to file in their original, handwritten form, for example my daily journal entries.

Additionally, I file the same Nebo note after choosing PDF while exporting, then putting it into Evernote. This makes use of Nebo's automatic conversion of the handwriting via OCR, which results in a text file (no longer handwritten), and makes the text searchable in Evernote. For any handwritten notes that I don't need to keep in original form, this second step is sufficient.

I join all other users in hoping for an easier integration of Nebo and Evernote. Should a better way to make both apps talk to each other already exist or come along, please let me know.

Thanks!

 

I like the idea of adding Nebo handwriting recognition: it is the text-transcription for virtually all the iPad handwriting apps. I use Noteshelf because it is automatically imported into Evernote, but it can then no longer be edited in Evernote. Penultimate was a great idea in its time, but no further work has been put into it, and the industry has moved forward. I’d pay extra for this feature.

Many of the leading handwriting apps use Nebo's underlying technology MyScript. While the Nebo app is not as feature-rich as some of the others -- GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf 2 (my personal favorite because it automatically syncs to Evernote) -- for conversion from handwriting-to-text Nebo is unmatched. Since no further development is being done to Penultimate, I would welcome MyScript being integrated into Evernote.

Thanks @DTLow. I just recently learned of Evertool on this board. Not available on iOS devices yet.

I don't know why, but other notetaking apps, which save their PDFs to Evernote allow OCR search. I have not been able to do this with Note Shelf 2. They point me to Evernote to find out why. Where would I see this answer?

I agree with Tinchohs. Fixing bugs in your software is table stakes. Enhancing your product is a sign of a going concern. That said, I don't expect we'll see Penultimate become revived and serve as a handwriting tool in the same league as competitors. While I'd love to see MarkDown supported, I've found two alternatives:

• Drafts 5, for Mac (beta) and iOS allows creating MarkDown text, and through an "action" forward that in nice format into Evernote.
• Note Shelf 2 is a handwriting/PDF markup tool that is unique in that it does sync-to-Evernote upon save of the NS2 notebook. It appears as handwritten script in Evernote, and even shows as such in the preview pane. My frustrations are that:

1. Evernote does not seem to do OCR scanning of the NS2 note, so doing a search on the content fails.
2. The note is saved "read only" so you cannot annotate it with Skitch tools inside Evernote, in the same way you'd do with a PDF file.

Has anyone found a workaround for this in Evernote?

I would be content to sort on the order selected (CMD+click) rather than the order displayed. This doesn't work yet, but would be an improvement.

DTLow, If I understand you, what you're suggesting is that I:

1. Reverse the sort order to: By Date Updated > Least Recent to Most Recent
2. Scroll to the bottom of all my Notes
3. Do the Merge
4. Restore the sort order to: By Date Updated > Most Recent to Least Recent

Am I the first person to request a simper methodology for Merge?

I often use Skitch to do screen captures of slides presented during a webinar. At the end, I'll select all these notes and "merge" them into a single note, but they are now presented in reverse-chronological order. I'd like to flip that and have the first slide I capture be at the top, and the last slide be at the bottom -- so if follows the logical and chronological order of the presentation... rather than the order they appear in Evernote.

How can that be done, without going back and touching/editing each (of dozens) of the slides?