Comments on: Evernote: The Perfect Photographer's Notebook? http://www.oakinnovations.co.uk/blog/2008/11/24/evernote-the-perfect-photographers-notebook/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gregg http://www.oakinnovations.co.uk/blog/2008/11/24/evernote-the-perfect-photographers-notebook/#comment-3268 Gregg Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:22:07 +0000 http://www.oakinnovations.co.uk/blog/?p=633#comment-3268 I use Evernote in much the same way for photographic location scouting as you do. I do keep separate notebooks in Evernote for major categories of subjects however. So I'll have a notebook dedicated to waterfalls, one for barns, one for covered bridges, one for historic places, one for one-room schoolhouses etc. Then I further tag each location note with things that will help me qualify the locations in searches. Stuff like "private-property", "winter-only", "renovated",etc. So later on I can do a search for something like all one-room schoolhouses that are not on private-property and have been renovated. There are four things that, if added to Evernote, would indeed make it a perfect photographer's notebook: 1. Ability to do proximity searches like "within 20 miles" or within "30 kilometers". Currently you can qualify searches by a range of decimal GPS coordinates but this means you better know what GPS coordinate range translates into something like "within 20 miles". 2. A rating system. It would be really handy if you could give a location note X amount of stars as a rating and then further qualify your searches with a minimal rating factor to give you the locations that are going to be the most photogenic and worthy of your time. 3. A way to link up with data from the Photographer's Ephemeris (http://photoephemeris.com/) so that you can obtain a google map of the location with the sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset direction shown as different colored lines over the map. What could be better than knowing when the good light is going to hit your subject on a given date, during the location planning process ? 4. A way to build a new note as an itinerary by selecting notes from your search results. Allow the user to check off which notes to include and drag and drop them in the order that they want to visit them and then confirm and create an itinerary note. Allow that note to be exported to maps.google.com as a map in "My Maps" which can then be accessed from a smartphone and used on the trip for turn by turn directions. If there are any third party developers out there looking to build such a thing, I'm sure it would have broad appeal not only to photographers but also to real estate agents, contractors, film producers, etc. I use Evernote in much the same way for photographic location scouting as you do. I do keep separate notebooks in Evernote for major categories of subjects however. So I’ll have a notebook dedicated to waterfalls, one for barns, one for covered bridges, one for historic places, one for one-room schoolhouses etc. Then I further tag each location note with things that will help me qualify the locations in searches. Stuff like “private-property”, “winter-only”, “renovated”,etc. So later on I can do a search for something like all one-room schoolhouses that are not on private-property and have been renovated.

There are four things that, if added to Evernote, would indeed make it a perfect photographer’s notebook:

1. Ability to do proximity searches like “within 20 miles” or within “30 kilometers”. Currently you can qualify searches by a range of decimal GPS coordinates but this means you better know what GPS coordinate range translates into something like “within 20 miles”.

2. A rating system. It would be really handy if you could give a location note X amount of stars as a rating and then further qualify your searches with a minimal rating factor to give you the locations that are going to be the most photogenic and worthy of your time.

3. A way to link up with data from the Photographer’s Ephemeris (http://photoephemeris.com/) so that you can obtain a google map of the location with the sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset direction shown as different colored lines over the map. What could be better than knowing when the good light is going to hit your subject on a given date, during the location planning process ?

4. A way to build a new note as an itinerary by selecting notes from your search results. Allow the user to check off which notes to include and drag and drop them in the order that they want to visit them and then confirm and create an itinerary note. Allow that note to be exported to maps.google.com as a map in “My Maps” which can then be accessed from a smartphone and used on the trip for turn by turn directions.

If there are any third party developers out there looking to build such a thing, I’m sure it would have broad appeal not only to photographers but also to real estate agents, contractors, film producers, etc.

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