Evernote Will Change Your Life

If you ever looked at your browser's "Favorites" file - its more than likely that it is completely disorganized and out of control. I (like most) had a bad habit of viewing a webpage that I want to revisit - then "adding to favorites" or "bookmarking" - only to discover that I could never find it again in the giant list of pages I tried to save to it over the years. Looking at my "favorites" now in my browser - I dont even know what a lot of it is or why I wanted to save it in the first place. It's a useless mess.

Enter Evernote. Evernote is an immensely flexible "clipping" tool that works on your desktop, on your phone and on the web. It allows you to save almost any kind of information (webpages, text, sound, pictures and video) and index it any way you like - tags, categories, separate notebooks. Evernote is similar to (also excellent) Google Notebook - only pumped up with an elegant interface and far more flexible features.

... but that's not all. Evernote also indexes by the content of your notes - including images. So, if you are in the grocery store and you want to save a picture of a cereal box (can't imagine why you would need to do this, but please humor me here.. :-D ) - text in the picture (Cap'n Crunch, in this example) would be captured and indexed.

So - if you were doing research on the vast health benefits of Cap'n Crunch, and you had saved your assortment of documents, webpages and pictures of Cap'n Crunch resources in Evernote - and you did a search on "Cap'n Crunch" - not only would you get the text and webpages - you would get the images that contained the phrase "Cap'n Crunch". Incredible!!

Like any great Web 2.0 app, it works with everything else you use. You can easily email notes to and from your Evernote account, and even dictate notes to it using that other spectacular service Jott! (I posted about Jott! on my former blog, but do yourself a favor and visit Jott! right now!)

Evernote is in "private beta" so you do either need an invitation (I have a few left - just email me [mary * at * provirtualsolutions.com] if you would like one) - or you can register for an invitation from Evernote - which may take a few days to a week. It works very smoothly  - so I doubt that it would be in a private beta very much longer.