Evernote - this is your brain on steroids.
Categories: Apps I Love, Geekery, iPhone|Saying that I love Evernote is like saying I love oxygen.
There are an increasing number of times that I find my mind to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere at all. I have mounted a dry erase board on my front door with a checklist - coffee, lunch, phone. I have left the house without one or another of these items on far too many occasions. For me, Evernote has become an invaluable tool. And, scatter-brained or not, it’s a fantastic way to store and organize notes.
You may be thinking that you can do all of that with any number of task list apps. But part of the power of Evernote is its OCR capabilities. Take a photo of a street sign or upload a photo of a cool saying on a t-shirt. Once it hits Evernote’s servers and is cataloged, you can simply search your notebook by text. Type in “stupid” and up pops that great Bush tee you saw. Upload scans of your receipts to organize your spending. It’s really limitless - check out this blog post to see how other people are using the service. And from Evernote’s own suggestions:
* Create new notes using desktop, web, and mobile versions of Evernote
* Take a snapshot using your camera phone or webcam. We’ll even recognize the text in the image.
* Clip entire webpages, screenshots, and just about anything else you can copy
* Drag and drop content into the desktop clients for Mac and Windows
* Email notes directly into your account using your personalized email address
* Scan receipts, recipes, tags, brochures, and anything else into Evernote
* Record audio wherever you are and listen to it whenever you want
Evernote is cross-platform, so the info you clip on your Mac at home will be on the PC at work. You can get it from your mobile device and everything syncs within moments. The basic service is free. Zero dollars buys you 40MB of monthly storage, each month. That’s 480 MB/year. Not too shabby - think 4800 mobile pics. They have recently introduced a premium subscription at $45US per year that increases your monthly allowance to 500MB. Either membership option gives you access to the all of the available tools, desktop or web.
It’s your brain - everywhere you need it.
