I learn quite a lot of magazines and newspapers every day on my iPad, utilizing quite a lot of totally different apps. I typically begin out in Flipboard, then learn the New York Instances utilizing the devoted app in Newsstand, then usually learn bits from The Week UK, once more utilizing their Newsstand app. I often find yourself in Safari, studying one thing additional on a daily web site.
I would wish to archive a few of the articles that I learn, and ideally I would like a single mechanism that works in all of those apps. My technique in the mean time is to make use of the ever-present “E mail” button in nearly any iPad app to ship article hyperlinks to Evernote by way of the Evernote e-mail service.
That causes a hyperlink to the article to be archived into my Evernote database, generally along with a bit of blurb concerning the article.
What I would most like, although, is for the full textual content of the article, ideally even with a pleasant structure, to be archived into Evernote. As a PDF can be an enormous bonus.
I am conscious that I can undergo numerous mechanisms of opening up the hyperlinks on my desktop pc, then printing the articles as PDFs and having them added again to Evernote. I am additionally conscious that this might be a fast course of, if I make the most of folder actions or a “PDF to Evernote” service. However ideally, I would like this entire course of to be a single step from my iPad itself. I do not relish the concept of going again to my desktop for fixed administration of this method.
I ought to point out that I am not a daily Instapaper person, although I do know it is a well-loved service. Instapaper appears designed for “time shifting” studying, which is not one thing I do. I am extra inquisitive about archiving and referencing. I exploit Evernote as a result of I like that it’s agnostic to the type of data I put in (I can mix textual content snippets, photographs, and entire PDFs), I like that the database is on my pc and never solely within the cloud, and I like its search features.
So my questions are:
- Is there a solution to e-mail article hyperlinks to some service which is able to convert these hyperlinks into full PDFs, then e-mail them on to Evernote?
- Is there a greater solution to preserve articles and snippets than Evernote, one which I can ship issues into by e-mail?
- Is there an entirely totally different means of doing this which may be extra environment friendly and keep away from the issues of emailing hyperlinks as an alternative of PDFs?
EDIT:
Due to the ideas I’ve gotten right here, I’ve tried exploring extra choices. I am nonetheless caught, and maybe somebody right here might help transfer me ahead.
The crucial piece was discovering a web site referred to as “If This, Then That,”, which acts as a glue between different web sites. I’ve arrange an motion on IFTTT to observe my Instapaper RSS feed for a brand new article, then to robotically add that article to Evernote. Since Instapaper additionally gives an e-mail handle for including objects to the studying checklist, this could enable me to easily e-mail to Instapaper, and have every part robotically obtain in Evernote.
Sadly the Instapaper RSS feed does not appear to choose up updates to my Instapaper studying checklist. Moreover, hyperlinks despatched from the New York Instances aren’t translated into the total articles by Instapaper, they’re simply saved as hyperlinks. So shut and but to date!
I have been experimenting with Pocket and Readability for a similar drawback. Thus far nothing works. However I really feel I am heading in the right direction with IFTTT.
