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My daily readings 09/21/2010 « Strange Kite — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:31:29 +0000

[...] Coincidentally, I started doing this not long ago after seeing this: http://www.adamthody.com/2010/01/indexing-ui-sketches/ [...]

By: Carl Jagt

Carl Jagt — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:51:51 +0000

Great tip on annotating using Preview! I’ll definitely start doing this. As for adding keywords, didn’t Evernote used to convert any in-image-text automatically into keywords?

By: Thody

Thody — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:28:55 +0000

Wow, that looks great. Definitely going to try this out. Thanks!

By: wadenick

wadenick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:15:41 +0000

Nice tip! I’ve found another iPhone app to be useful in clearing the background and glare and other issues of such snaps. Qipit White. I’m not affiliated but I got the demo from the CEO, and I like and use it. As their site says (I removed marketing blah) “Qipit White [...] create(s) a clear ink-on-white copy by removing shadows, glare and other digital distortions…”. http://qipit.com

Cheers, NickW

By: Thody

Thody — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:10:51 +0000

Hey Casper,

Yes, once the annotated image is saved in Preview, it’ll update in Evernote on your desktop, which will then sync to your phone. Very handy

By: Casper

Casper — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:29:01 +0000

Great tip – I’ll definitely try this out, thx!

Just wondering – will the annotated version be saved back to Evernote, eg. with the image itself?
I’d love to be able to pull a sketch up on my phone with all the annotations there..!?

Thx again.

By: Justin Kozuch

Justin Kozuch — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:20:26 +0000

I’ve been using Evernote for about a year and bit now, mostly for storing important documents (business expenses, to-dos, etc), but never touched on storing sketches and notes.

Also, I should start using the Annotate function alot more; admittedly, I’ve never used it, even though I use Preview on a daily (if not hourly) basis.

Thanks for sharing this Adam.

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:38:02 +0000

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By: Thody

Thody — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:52:48 +0000

Nice Verne. I’m a big fan of Omnigraffle myself, but I usually end up reserving it for further along in the process. I think I wound up landing on this Evernote/Preview combo largely because it’s so quick – if it wasn’t I’d end up abandoning it before long.

As odd as it may sound, I actually really like that the images aren’t super hi-res because it discourages me from going into too much detail. With hi-res, I tend to spend more time on detail then I should at the early sketching phase, which prevents me from rapidly iterating to the best possible UI.

By: Verne

Verne — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:16:05 +0000

Paper prototyping and indexing/annotating sketches is an ever-evolving process for me too. My latest routine includes scanning in a page of my notebook and pasting portions into Omnigraffle and doing the annotating in there. Scanning is a bit more tedious but I suppose I could just as easily snap a photo and sync it with my laptop, though I prefer working off the high quality scans.

Annotating in Preview is a nice little touch. I tend to pull things into Omnigraffle only because the rest of our IA work tends to be annotated with it already, but I’ll definitely keep Preview top of mind next time I need to do something quick.

Thanks for sharing your process!