I’m constantly researching something! I visit dozens of webpages in a day, hundreds a week–each for a different bit of information. I’ve tried a million ways of saving and organizing notes for later reference. I’ve tried bookmarking, saving as PDF, printing pages, keeping a bazillion tabs open at any one time. None of this works very well. I’m convinced I lose bags-full of tasty nuggets of information through this wasteful process.
But, alas, that is no more. I’ve discovered a new way to take, save, organize, manage and use my notes–Evernote.
Evernote is a cool, new application that allows me to highlight and clip only those bits that I want to hang on to–both from the Web and my real life. I can highlight text, links and images and save them to my Evernote account by simply clicking “clip to evernote” (via a button I dragged onto my browser bar).
I can also take pictures with my iPhone and email them to my Evernote account (via an Evernote-issued email address). I can scan receipts and other docs into my computer and clip those to my Evernote account. I can record voice messages (notes to self) and email the transcribed notes to my account (you’ll need a helper app). And, I can create notes and other documents on my desktop and upload those to my account.
Once all my goodies are in my Evernote account, I can organize them via date, tags or labels. I can search them to find just the one I want to see. I can even search for words within images (It was easy to find the picture of myself holding my “Today Show” sign from my last visit to NYC).
I absolutely love Evernote. If the reasons above aren’t enough for you to love it, here are a few more.
- Evernote is free…for now. It’s in Beta. Drop me a line and I’ll send you an invite.
- Evernote works on Mac and Windows systems.
- Evernote is compatible with Jott, another application I like, and other nifty apps.
- Evernote is truly intuitive, drop and drag, point and click.
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