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Evernote Review: Online note taking software Pc and Mobile

By Michael Fletcher On July 12, 2011 · 38 Comments

I am currently busy with a barrel load of projects. As a result my brain has fired into creative overdrive with new ideas constantly bubbling up to the surface. I find myself making tons of notes daily, on scraps of paper, in the little notes editor on my phone, in text files on my work laptop, on Keynote on my home pc and on mind maps in F reemind . All in all I do a lot of note taking all over the place which is not bad. I’d rather have all of these bits of information in existence on paper and out of my head. I’m really not that bright and need to keep the clutter to a minimum. Up until now though I’ve relied on my poor addled brain to keep track of all my note taking and ideas. Enter Evernote the note taking web site and software which I have now been using for a week for this review and have been thoroughly impressed with thus far!

What is Evernote?

Evernote note taking site is basically a bit of space online where you can capture and review your notes, lists, e-mails, pages you’ve visited, pictures, audio clips movies and pretty much anything else under the sun you need to keep track of even tweets. “Bah humbug” I hear you snorting, yes I know there are tons of other note taking alternatives to Evernote that can do the same. The Devil they say is in the details though and the Evernote site and it’s associated apps is one horny bastard. Grab your pitch fork and waddle along with me now as I share my Evernote review and explain why it rocks hardest.

Evernote Premium

Evernote comes in two flavors free and premium. I have not tried Evernote Premium version during this Evernote Review but it offers the power Evernote user:

more space to store information
faster text recognition from image notes
stronger security
the ability to share notebooks for collaboration

During my Evernote review I have found the free version of Evernote extremely feature rich and you don’t really have to upgrade, though I’d like to in the near future, if I use it as much as I expect I will. Not because I have to but it’s nice to contribute when you find a really useful product like Evernote.

Evernote Collaboration

This Evernote review focuses on the free version but the strength of the Evernote Premium version seems to be in the arena of online collaboration. You can allow other Evernote users access to notebooks and review or even edit these shared notebooks. Not only can it be used to review shared Evernote notebooks. Users can actually collaborate online reviewing and editing the same document in real-time on the site or via the Evernote desktop application. During my Evernote Review I found the application ideal for the individual note taking. If you want to extend these benefits to your team you’ll need to upgrade to Evernote Premium.

Text Recognition in Images

One of the really nifty features i found in my Evernote review is that you can finally start treating all your notes the same. Whether it’s a blog post you’ve saved from your browser or it’s a picture you’ve taken of the cover of a book in a bookstore. Evernote can save it for you. Evernote can extract text from images, this means you can search for text amongst your Evernote image “notes”. Very innovative use of the now ancient OCR technology. If this isn’t impressive enough I found out during my Evernote review Evernote even recognizes handwriting in pictures.

Slick Interface

During my Evernote Review I found the website very simple for note taking and it keeps the tools you need easily at hand. It is lightning quick, really it is, everything about Evernote is slick and efficient. Once on the Evernote site you have the option to set up multiple notebooks to organize and review your thoughts as you capture them. Once you start you can add tags and edit attributes to help organize everything about your Evernote Notebooks and that’s about that. When you’re looking to simplify your life the last thing you need is big fiddly solutions with millions of options as I’ve found during my Evernote Review this is simply a note taking application that takes the hell out of notes.

Multi-Platform support makes Evernote ultra mobile

Added to all of this web goodness there’s free Evernote desktop, Evernote iphone, Evernote windows mobile and Evernote OSX software. I found these applications as one of the highlights during my Evernote Review, allowing you to work offline, review and organize your Evernote notebooks and sync your Evernote web notes on the go. This means you are not at mercy of the Evernote website or connectivity when you are mobile. This desktop software also integrates with your browser and Microsoft Outlook allowing you to right-click on a web page you’d like to review later and add it to your Evernote Notebooks or allowing you to add an e-mail or attachment to your notes with one click. Have a Symbian phone, want to use Evernote? Use the Evernote wap site and review your Evernote Notebooks there or capture new notes on the go. If for some reason none of these options are appealing to you, you also have a dedicated e-mail address, send a mail to it and it will automatically get added to your default Evernote notebook to be reviewed at your leisure.

This Evernote review was originally blogged by myself, writing as MikeZilla and that Evernote Review is now updated here

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Evernote Review: The best Online note taking and organisation tool

By Michael Fletcher On January 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

Your days of struggling to deal with the modern information overload is over. This article is an Evernote Review but it is also an invitation for you to break free and from and clear your life of the mess and clutter that the online and offline world has become.

I’m a data analyst, an article writer, blogger, Wing Tsun student, boyfriend to my lovely Cheryl, movie lover, trainer and amateur web designer. Being all things to all people generates a lot of mental clutter not to mention mountains of paper on my desk at work and at the office.

My journey into using Evernote for note capturing to writing this Evernote review has been a long and rewarding one. I can say without hesitation this Evernote Review is probably the most positive review I’ve written and sadly they’re not even paying me to write it. So before I continue let me say I don’t love their colour scheme. So there, now I’ve said something negative about the product.

I’m not one to write reviews, however recently I had a good laugh at my pre-evernote self and felt like I should pay it forward.

What is Evernote?

Evernote is hard to explain but easy to profit from. Evernote is basically an online space for you to capture, store and review your notes. While writing the Evernote Review I was reminded again of how impressively long the list of ways there are to interact with Evernote is:

Use the Evernote Website

Use the Evernote Application for PC or Mac

Use the Evernote Wap site

Send tweets to @myEN

Email your notes to your unique Evernote mailbox

Use the mobile apps for Android, Blackberry and iPhone there is also an unsupported Symbian App

There is no need to change the way you work one of the tools you currently use probably already supports Evernote.

Evernote Premium

Evernote comes in two flavors free and premium. I have not tried Evernote Premium version during this Evernote Review but it offers the power Evernote user:

more space to store information
faster text recognition from image notes
stronger security
the ability to share notebooks for collaboration

Evernote Collaboration

Text Recognition in Images

Slick Interface

Multi-Platform support makes Evernote ultra mobile

Added to all of this web goodness there’s free Evernote desktop, Evernote iPhone, Evernote windows mobile and Evernote OSX software. I found these applications as one of the highlights during my Evernote Review, allowing you to work offline, review and organize your Evernote notebooks and sync your Evernote web notes on the go. This means you are not at mercy of the Evernote website or connectivity when you are mobile. This desktop software also integrates with your browser and Microsoft Outlook allowing you to right-click on a web page you’d like to review later and add it to your Evernote Notebooks or allowing you to add an e-mail or attachment to your notes with one click. Have a Symbian phone, want to use Evernote? Use the Evernote wap site and review your Evernote Notebooks there or capture new notes on the go. If for some reason none of these options are appealing to you, you also have a dedicated e-mail address, send a mail to it and it will automatically get added to your default Evernote notebook to be reviewed at your leisure.

This Evernote review was originally blogged by myself, writing as MikeZilla and that Evernote Review is now updated here

Evernote Review: Program Download Links:

If you’re serious about stress free productivity you should seriously consider using Evernote in conjunction with Getting things Done (GTD)

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Evernote Tattoo anyone? Evernote Essentials Author Brett Kelly wears his heart on his sleeve

By Michael Fletcher On December 23, 2010 · 6 Comments

Brett Kelly, author of the Evernote Essentials book, has owned the “Evernote how-to” domain for almost as long as Evernote has been around. His Unofficial Evernote manual, Evernote Essentials is the final word for squeezing all the power available out of Evernote. Whether you’re a novice or an Evernote guru you must own Evernote essentials, because Brett Kelly knows more than you. That’s why the guys over at Evernote gave him a job in 2010. Brett consulted with them while writing Evernote Essentials. The Evernote brains trust were so impressed with the way in which Brett was able to demystify Evernote in Evernote Essentials and make Evernote’s full power available even to newbies who have never used evernote before.

When the Student is ready, the master appears
Buddhist Proverb

Evernote Can’t Park my Car!

I had do my what I can to find the best ways to use Evernote. Lots of people have contacted me trying to convince me that Evernote sucks or that Evernote is only good for bookmarks or Evernote is no good as an offline tool or that Evernote can’t be used for fitness or goal tracking or capturing reciepts or this or that. I don’t really waste my time responding, the guys complaining that Evernote can’t Manage their projects or park their car for them have missed the point completely. Evernote is simply a productivity tool. A very powerful and flexible tool but a tool nonetheless. I can use the butt of a saw to knock in a nail but it’s probably not the best way to do it. If DevonThink or Springpad or remember the milk works better at certain tasks by all means use them for those things you don’t win any extra points for using Evernote for Everything. (though I’m becoming more and more convinced that you can)

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Uses for Evernote Screenshot screen clipping

By Michael Fletcher On June 19, 2010 · 11 Comments

Evernote Screen clipping or Screen shots has become my favourite favourite Evernote Feature. The ability to take a screenshot has long been a staple of the business world. As distrustful as the world is there’s always need to prove what we’ve been up too. Problem is when I send a screenshot of the project I’m currently working on I very rarely want to send my whole screen. I don’t need the whole world knowing what emails I’ve recieved or what programs I have open.

Before I go on if you’re extra observant you’ll see that all my blog posts are now available for PDF download. (There is a link at the end of each post) In case you’re one of those odd people who like hard copies of things or you’d like to save them in Evernote without having to clip a screenshot. Or having it look like plain text in evernote.

The way it was

Now prior to Evernote gtting a business friendly Screen shot was a multi-step process that just slowed down the process of cranking through the email inbox. Traditionally it would go something like this:

hit the Prt-Scr button
Ctrl-V in your *image editor
Crop your image
Save as an image
Attach

* I know most of the nice email editors have an image editor for your screen shots and I know the editing can be done in the email editor. The point is it still needs to be done and a lot of people use Gmail so there.

While the Evernote Pc application is running hitting the print screen key will bring up a little undocked window and some crawling ants to be manipulated. Move the ants around until you’ve selected the area of the screen you want to clip and Hey presto you’re done. You now have a clipped screenshot of only the area of the screen you chose.

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Using Evernote for Goal Tracking Pt. 3 – Organisation

By Michael Fletcher On January 19, 2010 · 22 Comments

So if you’ve gone through the steps so far for collecting your clutter into Evernote then you’ll already be well on your way toward using Evernote for goal tracking . We started by collecting all our clutter and then we went about capturing it into Evernote. So if we’ve done everything correctly up until now we have a system filled with all the related information pertaining to our goals for the coming year, and we’ve stored it all in a trusted system.

Make a next action list

With all your information stored in one secure place, and your system set up to receive more information as you receive it. You can now start organizing your day to day affairs. Draw up a list of all the projects related to your goals that currently require your attention. So for example, if your goal is to lose weight, your first project might be to research methods of losing weight. What is the next action you have to take to move that project forward? You may make an appointment with a doctor, or spend time on the internet or go to the local bookstore. Whatever you choose, capture that next action into Evernote.

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