Electron Hut: Kyle Bedell’s Blog

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…

While it’s been around for awhile, Mozilla’s Weave has just become easy enough to use that you might consider downloading it. It’s basically a better version of Google’s now-defunct Browser Sync; it copies your cookies, browser bookmarks, tabs, and saved passwords into a ‘computing cloud’. From there, you can pull up all of your personal settings on any copy of Firefox! I just put it on my machine at work and at home, and I can say that it works well. Give it a try!