With this note we would like to start a small series of peculiar short references on individual functions and features of the service, which are not always obvious to new users of Evernote. Yes, and "veterans" over time develops a certain algorithm for working with the service, and they may unknowingly ignore a number of fresh features implemented in new versions.
For example, many users are aware that Evernote clients for iPhone, Windows Mobile and Blackberry are able to use GPS to memorize the place in which the note was taken. We have repeatedly written about this. But the usefulness of this function, it seems to us, is often underestimated.
So, if you have an iPhone 3G, a smartphone with Windows Mobile or a Blackberry with a GPS module, then each note created on the phone will automatically capture the current location. As a result, in the future you will be able to narrow the circle of searching for the necessary data only with those notes that were made near the current location.
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For example, last month you and your friends went to Kiev for the weekend. And today we flew there to the conference. It is clear that all the notes made in this city - photos of places, addresses, facts become very relevant. To immediately see them all, it is enough to give Evernote the command to show all the data that you added in this place last time. Moreover, the search circle (the circle here should be understood quite literally) can be limited to a radius of 1, 5 or 25 km. You can set it on the request generation screen:
Yes, by the way, if you look at the detailed information about the note, you will see that Evernote automatically converted the received latitude and longitude of the place into the name of the city located on this place.