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Comment by shawn

8 years ago

I'd like to be able to press a shortcut key and have my computer save a screenshot of whatever I'm looking at, along with letting me type a brief note for context. Ideally it would also record the URL of whatever the browser was visiting (if it's a screenshot of a browser page), or the file path of whatever was open.

So basically Pinboard, but for pages of PDFs and other random scraps.

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submeta  8 years ago

Evernote does something like this. And it let's you search for text in the images as well. I have over 12k notes in Evernote. Many screenshots. It has excellent OCR capabilities, full-text search (via Lucene?) and syncs across devices.

  • murrayb  8 years ago

    Yep search, search across attachments and web page capture means that Evernote rules in this space for me.

    Evernote has traditionally been marketed as a note-taking app but for me it is a personal database/encyclopaedia. The ease of finding anything without having to worry about structure or links (though I have a bit of both) is fantastic.

  • luckman212  8 years ago

    What platform do you run EN on? I have 9.3k notes and find it _horrifically_ slow to run searches on macOS (Quad core i7 Mini 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD).

    It's so bad that I am actively looking for alternatives, even though I'm dreading getting my highly-formatted data out in a usable form.

    • submeta  8 years ago

      Mainly macOS. Well, to begin with: I don't perceive it as "terribly slow". Yes, it has hiccups at times, but we are talking about several thousand notes. And in that range I haven't seen a real altrrnative. For instance I imported my 12k notes in BearApp. The app won't open anymore after the import.

      I am in the exact same position. Especially so after several senior execs left the Evernote company. I even work on a custom notes store (Django and mysql backed) to keep kopies of all my notes because I really see no real alternative with the search capabilities of Evernote. And no, OneNote is not the same (search wise)

walterbell  8 years ago

iOS has support for screenshots and annotations, but the resulting images are not searchable.

Devonthink on macOS/iOS will save text snippets and text annotations, into a searchable database.