Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking at Evernote as my tool for taking notes. Last night I came to the conclusion that I am now addicted to it.
Evernote allows you to take text notes, graphic notes, photo notes and audio notes. These notes are then uploaded to the Evernote server where they live online for you to retrieve when you need it. Granted, you don’t always want to go to a website to take notes, so Evernote comes with a sweet set of tools!
- Evernote PC Desktop Client (a great replacement for notepad!)
- Evernote Mac Client
- Evernote for the iPhone
- Evernote for Windows Mobile 5 & 6 Devices
- Evernote Firefox / Flock extension - Great for making web-clippings! (and it stores the source)
Evernote synchronizes your notes across all the different clients allowing you to always have access to your notes.
You can categories your notes into notebooks (think folders) and can also share any of your notebooks.
Evernote has FREE as well as Premium services. The FREE service alone is pretty good and makes Evernote a handy productivity and learning tool. Here is a comparrison between FREE and Premium:
|
Free
(40MB per month) |
Premium
(500MB per month) |
| Text notes |
20,000 |
250,000 |
| Mobile snapshots |
400 |
5,000 |
| Web clips |
270 |
3,300 |
| Audio notes |
40 |
450 |
Here’s a few things that I use Evernote for:
- Interesting Quotes
- To-Do List
- Recording Attendance of a Youth Group
- Web Clippings, for research.
- Photos of Audio Settings on a Sound Desk
- Code Snippets when I develop software
- Quick-Reference Sheets when I work with different Software and Web Services
I am sure there are many other things that I will use it for in the future, but these are just a few practical examples which might cause you to think of your own uses. Please let me know!
