Windows

EverNote

Posted by on Oct 24, 2006 | One Comment

There is no new way to take a note, right? Personally I gave up on paper a long time ago, and now I use digital notes and reminders for myself. How can this be so? Well, there are a slew of free sticky note programs out there. One of the most unique I have seen in a while though is EverNote.

So what makes EverNote so different?

With EverNote 1.5 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more! With EverNote, you can create notes in multiple formats, including text, Web, email, handwriting, image clips and custom templates. You don’t need to save your notes manually – EverNote saves them for you automatically.

This is like your standard sticky note application on steroids. It has just about everything you could ever need when taking notes via your PC. To make things even better, it has a Firefox extension as well – so you get even more integration between programs.

EverNote makes it easy to store and quickly access notes, Web page excerpts, emails, phone messages, and more. EverNote innovates by storing content on an endless, virtual roll of paper. You can quickly scroll chronologically through your notes similar to scanning through handwritten notes in a notebook.

For folks who want to use a note program that doesn’t have so many features, you might take a look at Stickies.

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[tags]Windows, freeware, notes, sticky, memos[/tags]

  • John Howard Oxley

    I can happily testify that the free version of EverNote is every bit worth the price you pay for it! I have been using it on a low-end lap top [just a step above the hand-cranked version] to help organize e-mail files — I just cut and past from the e-mail to EverNote, and bang! it is saved and can be recovered quickly and easily

    And I mean “easily: — while I am semi-geeked around the edges, I still found this program a snap to install and use — about 30 minutes with the Really Fine Manual, and I was able to do just about everything I needed to do [with the single exception of searches]. The paid version of the program has a lot more capability than the free version — it just happens to be that I don’t need those features, but if you do, I expect you will find the price relative to competitors quite palatable.

    I consider it worth noting that I am a big enthusiast for free-form text databases like this. I used AskSAM [which is a wonderful heavy-duty information management product] for decades, and would still be using it [I have a registered copy] except for a computer issue of such astounding convolutedness which reveals my degree of IT fecklessness in such greath depth that I forbear to describe it further. I have used other free-form text databases using a variety of organizational metaphors, and think that EverNote is one of the best in terms of ease of use.

    There have been a couple of glitches, none serious, and none causing data loss, and I can’t seem to make the search function work, but overall I would give this program a solid recommendation if you have a lot of different bits of information that you want to organize into an easy-to-manage intuitive structured heap.

    Oh, and did I say that the program is easy to set up and use? Doesn’t hog system resources either — on my gerbil-driven laptop it rarely crashes — indeed the single crash when using it might have been caused by something else.