While I’m not a big Google Reader user, preferring FeedDemon, the fact that FeedDemon now syncs with Reader is really handy when I’m not using my own computer because it keeps up to date with all my stuff.  This week, the Google Reader team announced a couple of new features (one of which was inspired by FeedDemon’s Panic Button) including the ability to send a news item to other services.

It comes with a list of pre-defined options such as Delicious, Digg & Facebook, but it also has the ability to add custom ones using the substitution tags provided

Because of this, we can set it up to clip stuff straight from Google Reader into an Evernote notebook.  Stealing from the Evernote Web Clipper bookmarklet, you can create a custom ’send-to’ destination like this:

1. Go to Google Reader and click on ‘Settings’ then ‘Send To’
2. Click on the ‘Create A Custom Link’ button
3. In the form that appears put ‘Evernote’ in the Name field, http://www.evernote.com/clip.action?title=${title}&url=${url} in the Url field and http://www.evernote.com/favicon.ico in the Icon Url field
4. Click ‘Save’

You’ll then have Evernote in your send to menu

This will automatically clip the whole page that the news item links to into Evernote, so even if the RSS feed that you’re reading only does partial feeds, this will grab the whole original article from the site, great if you want to read it later when you’re offline with your iPhone or PC/Mac Evernote client.  Once it’s clipped the page it takes you to a page where you can move the clipped item into a different Notebook & add some tags to it, but this is optional, the item is already stored in your default Evernote notebook

So there you go, a really easy way to grab anything from Google Reader & stick it into Evernote