June 9, 2011 at 17:13Integration examples: Evernote Peek, the first Smart Cover app on the iPad
You may have already heard that along with the new version of the iPad, Apple has released an interesting accessory for the tablet - Smart Cover . Among the features can be noted magnetic mount and unusual design, which allows you to use it not only to protect the screen, but also to support the device in convenient positions for entering text and viewing video. But we were interested in the fact that Smart Cover can be used to interact with the iPad. If you cover the screen with a cover, it turns off the screen, and vice versa, immediately opens the lock window when you open it. And we had a question: is it possible to use the capabilities of Smart Cover to control the application and, using our API, make Evernote even more useful?
Let me introduce what we ended up with - Evernote Peek.
Evernote Peek is a free application designed to help learners, students and all those who train their memory with questions and answers. Peek's interface seems very intuitive to us. Once you connect Peek to your Evernote account and select the material you want to memorize. Then you can simply close the screen using Smart Cover and open the cover to see the question. To find out the answer, just roll up the cover completely. To go to the next prompt, close it again and repeat the process.
This is a completely new way to work with the application, but at the same time understandable as well as turning pages.
Peek turns Evernote notebooks into educational material. When you launch the application, click on the Add button and log in to Evernote. The application will show you two tabs with notebooks. The first tab contains common notebooks from Evernote and StudyBlue . The second is your personal notebooks. Select the one you need and add it to Peek. As soon as the notebook is loaded, click on it, close the cover with a cover and open it a little to get started.
Creation of training materials
Making quizzes and tutorials in the form of questions and answers with Peek is very convenient. Log in to Evernote and create new notebooks. Then add some notes there. Note headings will become questions, and note content will be answers. In order to make everything look beautiful, we recommend that you limit the title of the note to about 50 characters, and the text to 250 characters.
Quick iPad settings
We recommend the following iPad settings for working with the application: it is better to set the screen brightness by about 75%, and also turn off the orientation lock of the iPad. And that’s it, you can start the self-test.
The application is already available in the App Store , so you can try it yourself.
Peek development was an interesting project for us, a good example of integration using the Evernote API, which extends the functionality of the service in some narrow area. Surely you have your own idea for an application that can take advantage of Evernote's capabilities from an unexpected perspective - join our developer competition with a prize pool of $ 100,000. More about the event >>
Let me introduce what we ended up with - Evernote Peek.
What is an Evernote Peek?
Evernote Peek is a free application designed to help learners, students and all those who train their memory with questions and answers. Peek's interface seems very intuitive to us. Once you connect Peek to your Evernote account and select the material you want to memorize. Then you can simply close the screen using Smart Cover and open the cover to see the question. To find out the answer, just roll up the cover completely. To go to the next prompt, close it again and repeat the process.
This is a completely new way to work with the application, but at the same time understandable as well as turning pages.
Learn your own notes and more
Peek turns Evernote notebooks into educational material. When you launch the application, click on the Add button and log in to Evernote. The application will show you two tabs with notebooks. The first tab contains common notebooks from Evernote and StudyBlue . The second is your personal notebooks. Select the one you need and add it to Peek. As soon as the notebook is loaded, click on it, close the cover with a cover and open it a little to get started.
Creation of training materials
Making quizzes and tutorials in the form of questions and answers with Peek is very convenient. Log in to Evernote and create new notebooks. Then add some notes there. Note headings will become questions, and note content will be answers. In order to make everything look beautiful, we recommend that you limit the title of the note to about 50 characters, and the text to 250 characters.
Quick iPad settings
We recommend the following iPad settings for working with the application: it is better to set the screen brightness by about 75%, and also turn off the orientation lock of the iPad. And that’s it, you can start the self-test.
The application is already available in the App Store , so you can try it yourself.
Evernote Developer Competition
Peek development was an interesting project for us, a good example of integration using the Evernote API, which extends the functionality of the service in some narrow area. Surely you have your own idea for an application that can take advantage of Evernote's capabilities from an unexpected perspective - join our developer competition with a prize pool of $ 100,000. More about the event >>
