By Ian Ragless on
Friday, February 17, 2012
Evernote is one of my favorite cloud applications. What is it? Well, from their own web site (www.evernote.com) it's a way to "capture anything, access it anywhere and find it fast". If a picture is worth a thousand words a video must be worth a million.
So, why do I like it?
- It lets me keep all that "stuff" that I might need at some stage.
- It's on my PC's, iphone and ipad so it's with me anytime I might need it.
- I can search it, tag notes with key words and organise notes into related folders.
- I can share notes and notebooks with others.
- It's quick and simple to add notes and to capture stuff off of web sites I might need.
How do I use it?
Planning and notetaking - Any time I need to jot down plans for something or make a list of things I need do I use Evernote. I can add checkboxes and tick them off when I'm done.
Capturing - you can pretty much capture anything, from screenshots, to web pages, to photos, to voice notes and files. Often I take photos of hand written notes I might need. Evernote even indexes the handwriting in photos which makes them easy to find later.
Here's a note to capture my wifes tyre information, she's been doing too many burnouts lately and I need to get her some new ones. I took the photo on my phone and now when I'm ringing around I have the information on my computer or if I'm checking prices in the stores I have it on my phone.
Storage - I keep electronic versions of product manuals and other pdf documents in Evernote. They are indexed and searchable making it easy for me to find them when I need them.
What else is good?
It's free!!!! Whaaaat? I hear you say. There's a small amount of unobtrusive advertising in the bottom left corner of the interface. There is a premium version for about $45 a year which gets rid of the advertising and gives you a bit more storage and a few other advantages but the functionality of the free version is very rich. I have the premium version which I got because I use it so much and wanted to support them more than to get the additional benefits.
Well that pretty much sums it up. I suggest you give it a try (www.evernote.com). It's a great example of a cloud application and one that has a lot of uses. Next time we'll talk about another favorite of mine a great application to keep all those pesky passwords in check
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