Evernote
07.03.08 - 05:45pm
I was looking for an alternative to Microsoft’s OneNote (basically a souped-up, ink-enabled journal application) because the OneNote Printer driver that allows me to import Office documents and PDFs into my notebooks keeps mysteriously vanishing. A complete reinstall of Office 2007 is the only thing that fixes the issue. So, in my search for another clipping/notetaking/journaling application, I discovered a gem: Evernote. With mobile, web, and desktop clients, Evernote is a lot like “OneNote Online.” You can add, modify, and retrieve your notes from just about any device with internet access and a screen, and Evernote will locally index all of your notes for faster searching. To make things even better, you can share your notebooks so that they’re publically viewable.
The software supports importing just about anything. Audio, video, pictures, ink, and written text are all supported, and the UI is pretty intuitive. The caveat is that “free” accounts have small monthly upload caps (50MB). For $5/month or $45/year, your upload cap gets bumped up to 500MB, you’ll have priority online indexing, and ads get removed from public notebooks. Time will tell if I’ll need to actually go for a pro account…
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