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On Evernote’s new Context feature, and why it’s a problem
In today’s iOS and Mac update, Evernote added a new feature for premium users named Context. Here’s the description from the release notes:
Premium feature: Context
- Context displays notes, articles, and people related to what you’re working on
- View related articles from The Wall Street Journal and other sources and related people from LinkedIn and your business
That first bullet point isn’t all that new. For a while now, Evernote has been able to show related notes in the Mac app, but pulling in data from the web is new. Here’s a list of sources that can appear in Evernote based on the content of the current note:
Ruining Lives With Perspective⇢
Connected 11:
This week, after saving Greenland, Federico, Stephen and Myke compare and contrast what’s on their iPhone home screens.
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Tim Cook: This is my brick⇢
Tim Cook’s essay in Businessweek is too important and too well-written to block quote just part of it.
More on SugarString⇢
T.C. Sottek at The Verge:
For now, it’s easy to shrug off Sugarstring as just another hilariously dumb attempt to make a corporate brand look cool. Its format is somewhere between Digg, BuzzFeed, and Verizon’s corporate blog. It appears to gather much of its content from Reddit. It’s powered by Wordpress. It inexplicably has 74,000 Twitter followers. It publishes headlines like “Can you survive without chatting at work?” and “Three reasons Neil DeGrasse Tyson is wrong about innovation.”
SugarString
Verizon is getting into the news business. What could go wrong?
The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company in the world is bankrolling a technology news site called SugarString.com. The publication, which is now hiring its first full-time editors and reporters, is meant to rival major tech websites like Wired and the Verge while bringing in a potentially giant mainstream audience to beat those competitors at their own game.
Why the iPod classic died⇢
Benedict Evans:
Tim Cook: iPod Classic was discontinued because they couldn’t get the parts. And not worth designing a whole new one.
Clearly if Apple had wanted to keep the iconic music player alive, it could have, but I believe Cook when he said the demand just wasn’t there. RIP, little spinning disk buddy.
Apple’s Greg Joswiak addresses iOS 8.0.1 issue⇢
Dawn Chmielewski:
Joswiak acknowledged the mistake in the initial update of Apple’s iOS 8 mobile operating system — but said the problem resided in how the software was “wrapped,” not with the update itself.
“It had to do with the way the software was being sent over servers,” Joswiak told Re/code on Tuesday at the Code/Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif. “It was the way software was being distributed.”
On iOS 8.1 and iCloud issues⇢
Federico Viticci:
For the past week, apps like MindNode, Twitterrific, Pixelmator, and (before the latest update) Drafts have been hanging or crashing at launch on my devices, forcing me to force-quit them, reboot (with a hard reset), or manually copy data because iCloud wasn’t syncing. Each app was tested with existing document libraries as well as an empty database.
In short, apps using iCloud data will freeze or just crash at launch for many users. I’m seeing it all over the place in my iPhone 6, and like Fraser Speirs, can’t use apps like Keynote. Infuriating and pathetic.
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‘I pledge my allegiance to iMac Nation’⇢
Jason Snell:
This is the promise of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display: It’s one of the fastest Macs ever attached to the best Mac display ever. Yes, it’s an iMac, meaning you can’t attach a newer, faster computer to this thing in two or three years. But I have a feeling that these iMacs will have the processor power, and the staying power, to make the aging process much less painful.
FBI asks Congress to require smartphone backdoors⇢
Colin Lecher at The Verge:
FBI Director James Comey has been on a media tour lately, making an anti-encryption pitch to the public. Apple’s new encryption standards, Comey has argued, are an unnecessary hurdle to law enforcement — and the FBI needs an easy way to bypass them. Now Comey is bringing the argument straight to Congress, asking them to update a law to allow backdoors in smartphones.
Screw you, Mr. Comey.