Evernote is a great little tool I use almost every day. I use it mainly for making quick notes (in a Post It kind of way), for more indepth notes when researching a blog post, for writing draft blog posts and for taking screengrabs for blog posts.
The screengrabs are particularly useful for logos or illustrating a step by step guide on how to articles.
Grabbing the content is really easy too. Just hit the Prnt Scrn (Print Screen) button to enable the Evernote Clipper (which is also available as a Firefox addon), drag the Clipper across to the content you want to grab, resize it to suit and hit return. A nice feature of the Clipper tool is that, as you resize the cutting area, it shows you the dimensions of the cropped image before you crop.
These are the main reasons why I use Evernote, but there are tons of other features too. I wrote about those in a longer review of Evernote.
10 Reasons Why You Should Download and Try Evernote
- It is lightweight, fast and very easy to use
- Store data locally or synch it to a folder in the cloud
- Automatically saves notes – no need to look for the ‘save’ button
- Stores notes inside Notebooks – create a Notebook for each project you are working on
- Within each notebook you can create multiple notes
- Assign a title (a filename) to each note and allocate tags for easy reference/searching
- Email notes
- The basic version is free
- It is available for a number of platforms – you can access your account from the internet or from the most popular mobile devices (Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Android, Paml Pre and Windows Mobile)
- Everything is well-organized and easy to find
I don’t know what I would do without it
I have used Evernote for a couple of weeks now and there isn’t anything I don’t like about it. I use the Evernote desktop app for Windows and it works like a dream. Maybe I will come across a few problems as I start to use it more, but, at the moment, everything is great and I would recommend it to anyone who likes to keep lots of different types of data in one file.
Evernote is available for the following platforms:
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Windows
- iPhone/iPod Touch
- BlackBerry
- Palm Pre
- Windows Mobile
- Web Clippers
- SanDisk U3
A more indepth review of Evernote
Evernote downloads page
Evernote home page
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