cintanotes 1.8 is out

Posted by Gary Carson
Oct 3, 2012 at 10:08 PM

This is how I use Cintanotes.

I’m a blogger. Run two blogs (warning: shameless plug);

The Ancient World Review (ancientworldreview.com)

Ominous Planet (ominousplanet.com)

Besides original material, I post a lot of news updates which feature pull quotes from stories I’ve found online plus the occasional comment. I also post videos I’ve found on YouTube and other sites.

Cintanotes makes it extremely easy to capture all of this material while I’m searching news sites on the internet. If I find a story I want to post, I just highlight the pull quote I plan to use, hit CTL-F12 and the quote is instantly captured (in the background) to Cintanotes, which also grabs the article title and the source URL.

I can do the same thing with the embed codes for videos I want to post. It’s extremely fast and simple. When I’m searching for material, I frequently will capture half a dozen items during one session and then go back to them later.

Posting the updates just requires copying and pasting the material from CintaNotes directly into the Typepad editor. That’s all there is to it.

Another way to use Cintanotes which I haven’t taken full advantage of is to export a series of notes into a text file. This can then serve as the basis for a column or an essay or whatever.

CintaNotes is one of the most useful applications I’ve ever found. I use it all the time.