Think about the software that you use day in and day out, the ones you absolutely couldn’t live without. If you’re like me, that list probably includes an e-mail client, an office productivity suite, browser, and a messenger service of some type. I might also throw Windows Live Writer in there for my purposes, and you might have some other apps you use daily in your professional life. Next, on the useful-but-not-100%-essential list, I have things like image editing/storage programs (I’m partial to GIMP and Picasa), music software (iTunes) as well as some other fun goodies (Google Earth and Dreamweaver on my computer).
Evernote is software that is quickly moving from my second list and making it’s way onto the first one. It’s job is a simple one, but it does it quite well: Collect tidbits and snippets of information from a variety of sources, and archive them for later. This is a niche that has proven to be essential for me since I first signed up for the service a couple of months ago. Evernote sweetens the deal by allowing for multiple installs on computers and handheld web devices and providing syncronization to their web service. Find something at work, clip it to Evernote, and it’s waiting for you at home when you power up. Or, if you’re away from your own computer, you can simply log into your account via any web browser and access it from there. What’s more, Evernote indexes all of your information so you can quickly search for it later on.
Evernote contains some other powerful features as well, including the ability to recognize writing in an image file. In the coming days and weeks, I’m going to be publishing a series of posts on this impressive application. We will take a look at each of it’s features and run it through some examples.
I rarely get excited about a software title, let alone devote a blog series about it. This is one of the rare exceptions. Just today, Evernote moved from the invitation-only stage and opened it up for the public. Give it a shot, and follow me while we explore this together.
Next up: We examine the dashboard and operating environment.
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