Friday, March 18, 2011

RE-POST: Complete Idiot’s Guide to Installing the Evernote Web Clipper on Mobile Safari Without Doing that Janky Bookmark Sync Bullcrap

This is definitely worth a re-post. Thanks to Brett Kelly @ www.brettkelly.org !!

First, visit this page in Mobile Safari. Done? Good. Now, bookmark it using the little plus symbol at the bottom of the screen.


  • Copy all of the text in this box to the clipboard:

javascript:(function(){EN_CLIP_HOST='http://www.evernote.com';try{var%20x=document.createElement('SCRIPT');x.type='text/javascript';x.src=EN_CLIP_HOST+'/public/bookmarkClipper.js?'+(new%20Date().getTime()/100000);document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(x);}catch(e){location.href=EN_CLIP_HOST+'/clip.action?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);}})();

  • Here’s a Gist of the code if you can’t select it in Mobile Safari - visit that link and click “raw” if you still can’t copy it.
  • Click the Bookmark button at the bottom of the screen and click ‘Edit’, then click the bookmark you just made for this page.
  • Change the name to “Clip to Evernote”.
  • Delete the contents of the “Location” field and paste the code you copied before. 
  • Save it.
  • Have a cookie because you’re done.


Now, if you want to clip a web page under Mobile Safari, just tap this bookmark and you’re off and running.

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