I use Evernote to remember random thoughts and to take notes on things. It's a Web clipper and a note taker with PDF viewing and online storage.

It's got an open API for reading and contributing to it's database of notes.

This is the kind on app that I think is begging to be placed on a tablet. I'd like to write one. But I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Evernote is like a couple of existing apps -- the Web clip applet, Xournal, a PDF viewer, for instance -- rolled into one. So how should an Evernote client be written?

Got any thoughts?

While Evernote is nice (it so reminds me of Notes on my Newton), I find that the only thing it really begs for is good handwriting recognition.

I use the free version of Evernote on my Windoze tablet, together with PenOffice (AFAIAC the only viable HWR app in existence) and that works nicely. Of course, even then one is ever so often reminded that Windows was never designed for stylus use; I then shed a single tear for the demise of NewtonOS.

On the tablet, where I'm limited to handwritten scribbles, I find that Mnotes or Maemopad+ are more useful. Still, for various values of "useful", that is.

I have often wondered what things would be like if the NewtonOS came out closer to now ... when it would have been more accepted.

As for the Evernote client: I'm also wanting a client for reviewing notes in my Evernote collection. I think the tablet platform would be ideal for that.

Well, from the moment Jobs came back, it was doomed, but it's not as if it needed much added to become a universal tabletOS: A decent TCPIP stack, built-in bluetooth and WiFi (it's just the one chip these days) and support for "normal" filesystems would have been enough. Colour is already built in.

But for me, its biggest strength (and therefore its biggest weakness) was its filesystem, which didn't have files and wasn't a system. It is still the only device where I always had the feeling that all my data was linked (which they were, of course). Really the only way to explain the transparency and ease of use to a non-newtoneer is to shove a Green Brick in their hands and force them to use it for five minutes.

How deep Apple has fallen...

I dunno. I don't think I want a device for reviewing stuff only. The iRex did that[*], and the Palm (to an extent), and most phones these days. I want something like the Newton or my Psions: A computer that does everything I do on a desktop, but fits in my pocket unobtrusively enough that picking it up and taking it with me becomes a reflexive action. Granted, Newtons didn't fit in any but the grotesquely large pockets, but you get the idea.

I guess you now can see why I'm so psyched about the Pandora, even with the delays.

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[*] And even they ended up bringing out a model with data entry capabilities.

<shameless plug>

Have you seen Quick Clip? Granted, I have no idea what Evernote is, so...

</shameless plug>

No <shameless plug> required! I think Quick clip is cool. Hence the need for my question: Evernote is Quick clip + xournal + Internet storage. How do you put those together without a brand new app?

You can sort of look over your Evernote notebooks on your Nokia by opening the web browser and pointing it at
http://www.evernote.com/mobile/Home.action
(the site meant for cell phone browsers)

When Gary (lcuk) finally comes through with his refactored liqbase framework, it should be a serious contender for this sort of stuff :-)

indeed we will.
even if what I manage isn't good enough others can build on what I started knowing they will have simple fast graphics to show off the best of what they have to offer

Oh, if we're going to indulge in shameless plugs and shameless pleas, for those who would be satisfied with solely text (not photos, or drawings, etc.), Quick Clip integrated with a maemo-ized QuickDex and online storage or some way to synch with an online notes database (like the probably-to-be-defunct Google Notes) would do the trick wonderfully well. Quick Clip and QuickDex -- they already sound like they belong together. Now it just needs QuickSync, too!