I last reviewed Evernote in early 2017, when version 8 of its iOS app launched as a major redesign.

Still, the core product keeps pushing forward.

The popular note-taking app celebrated its tenth birthday last summer, but the last few of those years haven’t been easy, with two CEO transitions and sizable layoffs at several points. That was the beginning of a note-taking vision quest that culminated in this column, even though I’m not sure I reached the destination I was originally seeking.Įvernote is still alive. But then I remembered that Keep It’s integration with Shortcuts was limited to URL schemes and that the app did not offer Siri shortcuts to append content to existing notes 1. Simple enough, right? Given a text selection in Safari, I wanted to see if I could create a shortcut to append rich text to an existing document in Keep It without launching the app.Īs Club MacStories members know, Keep It is the app I’ve been using for the past several months to hold my research material, which played an essential role in the making of my iOS 12 review (see Issues 135 and 144) of MacStories Weekly). A few weeks ago, I had the idea of adapting my shortcut to save webpage selections from Safari (see Weekly 151, 152, and 153) to make it work with Keep It rather than a JSON file. Like the best origin stories, this article comes from humble beginnings. You can find out more about Club MacStories and subscribe here. As a new member you’ll receive the latest newsletters, have access to our full archive of over 200 back issues, and enjoy other perks throughout the year. If you enjoy MacStories but want even broader and deeper coverage from the MacStories team, please consider joining Club MacStories. MacStories Weekly is packed with our favorite apps, app collections, workflows, answers to Club members’ questions, longform stories, interviews, home screens, tips, and more. We wanted to share it as an example of the type of longform stories exclusive to Club MacStories members.Įvery year, we publish around 60 issues of MacStories Weekly and the Monthly Log for Club MacStories members.

The following story was originally published in Issue 163 of the MacStories Weekly newsletter on February 15, 2019.

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