Evernote goes social.

If you’ve update Ever­note recently you might have missed the new arrow but­ton in the menu bar.

Now I love this fea­ture and find it very inter­est­ing because Phil Libin has said that Ever­note is the anti-social, anti-viral soft­ware, that it’s about you and what’s in your head (see below).  How­ever, now Ever­note is allow­ing you to use both Twit­ter and Face­book to share what is in your head and it’s sim­ple to do!

When you want to share some­thing all you need to do is:

1. Select the note you want to share and the social out­let you want to use.
2. Login to the ser­vice using your cre­den­tials for that social account
3. Type a mes­sage & post/send
4. Any note that you’ve shared will have a “Shared” icon in the menu bar

That sim­ple!

What you’ve now shared is a read-only copy of your note.

You can stop shar­ing the note by:

1. Select­ing the note you’ve shared, select it’s options (control-click on Apple / right-click on PC) and select it “Note Settings…”
2. Click “Stop Shar­ing” and you’re done.

I love this fea­ture as it now pro­vides a way for you to share infor­ma­tion with a large num­ber of peo­ple in you social cir­cle that may or may not (god for­bid) not have Ever­note.  By shar­ing on Face­book you can share with your “friends” and on Twit­ter your “followers”.

By pro­vid­ing options on both of these social net­works and depend­ing on how you define your own per­sonal social media guide­lines you can tai­lor who you are shar­ing your notes with.

Videos of Phil Libin talk­ing about Ever­note and social media:

Phil Libin, Ever­note from Arik Hes­sel­dahl on Vimeo.