![]() It’s hard to think of an application that’s had a more profound impact on my work habits: where my notes used to be scattered across an assortment of paper notebooks (remember those?), Word docs, text files and scraps of paper, just about every thought, phone message, meeting record and blog post I’ve written in the past three years is captured in one of a dozen Voodoopad notebook. For the past three years I’ve been a devoted user of Voodoopad, and it’s painful to think about giving it up - not just because the migration process will be a bit arduous (see below) but because of how much I’ve loved VDP. Once you make a notebook public you can add it to a Facebook page, or to your blog, as a widget that looks like this (click on any box to open that note you’ll need pop-ups enabled): (NOTE: I think Evernote has discontinued support for this function.)Įvernote’s interface, syncing and clipping features make it a very tempting choice as a primary notetaking application. I’ve created a little notebook of web clippings about how to use Evernote, and set it up as a shared notebook, which you can see here. One social thing you CAN do with Evernote is to share a notebook, and optionally publish it as a widget on your blog or webpage. (I’m hoping some clever person will hack together a tool for saving a web clipping to Evernote and simultaneously, or keeping web clippings synchronized between the two.) Unlike there’s no sharing feature, however, so it’s not a substitute if you like the social in social bookmarking. Unlike this lets you stash the actual web page (or highlights) rather than just the URL and description. If you install the Firefox clipper extension (or the “clip to Evernote” bookmarklet in any browser), you can use Evernote to store and tag your favourite web clippings, too. (NB that you can’t edit pre-existing notes on your iPhone, however, including those you created on your phone and it would be MUCH easier to take notes on the iPhone if Evernote let you rotate the phone to use the wider version of the iPhone keyboard.) ![]() In other words, it’s a terrifically easy, flexible and powerful way to take notes on your computer or iPhone, and keep them in sync. ![]() You can tag any note with as many keywords as you want, so that provides a further layer of categorization. The Evernote interface makes it very easy switch between notebooks, and to move notes back and forth among them. (OCR only works on notes that have been uploaded to the web, so if you want your images to be text-searchable, you’ll need to put them in a notebook you keep synced online. ![]() For those of us who are whiteboard-dependent, that means you can now capture your whiteboard notes and they’ll be searchable! Ditto for business cards, flip charts, signs - whatever you care to shoot. Use Evernote to hold your iPhone snapshots and they’re synced, too.Īnd since Evernote features optical character recognition (OCR), any text you snap with your phone (or another camera whose contents you drop into Evernote) becomes searchable. Use Evernote to capture audio notes on your iPhone and they’ll automatically sync to Evernote on the web and on your computer - no waiting for your next iPhone sync. But it only costs $5 per month to get an account entitling you to 500 MB of data uploads, which Evernote says is enough to hold thousands of typed notes, five thousand snapshots, or 450 audio notes. While you can keep as many notes and notebooks as you want on your local computer, the free version of Evernote limits data uploads (i.e. one for draft blog posts, one for grocery lists, and one for each client project) and choose to keep some or all of these notebooks local (just on your computer) or online (synced by Evernote). Any note that you take on your iPhone gets synced back to Evernote, too. So far, the best discover I’ve made is a free app called Evernote - and it’s changed my computer use even more dramatically than it’s affected the way I use my iPhone.Įvernote is a notetaking application that lets you take notes on your computer (Mac or Windows) and keep those notes synced with your iPhone and the Evernote web site. Since upgrading to a 3G iPhone, I’ve gone on periodic app binges in which I download every app that looks remotely interesting and take it for a whirl.
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