geakz » webware http://www.geakz.com Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:01:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Test Driving ‘EverNote’ http://www.geakz.com/2008/04/16/test-driving-evernote/ http://www.geakz.com/2008/04/16/test-driving-evernote/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:07:39 +0000 Geaked http://www.geakz.com/?p=420 EverNote

If you’re not hip to EverNote, get there quick. This free program(Google Ad driven) now in Beta 3 is creating a buzz about town, especially with the LifeHacker/GTD and Get organized crowds. Think of a roll of adding machine paper in which you add ideas, web clippings, to-dos, photos etc., as you come across them. Then allow for tagging of such ideas along with grouping them into ‘notebooks’. Make all of this highly searchable AND synchronizable between your desktop, web or USB version and you have a great way to keep it all in one place.

How to get stuff into Evernote (from their website)

  1. Create new notes using desktop, web, and mobile versions of Evernote

  2. Take a snapshot using your camera phone or webcam. We’ll even recognize the text in the image.

  3. Clip entire webpages, screenshots, and just about anything else you can copy

  4. Drag and drop content into the desktop clients for Mac and Windows

  5. Email notes directly into your account using your personalized email address

  6. Scan receipts, recipes, tags, brochures, and anything else into Evernote

  7. Record audio wherever you are and listen to it whenever you want

One thing that blows me away is the ability to search words that appear in a photo. Say you take a picture of a white board at a meeting about company earnings. You could search for the word “earnings”, and being that it appeared in the title on the white board, EverNote would take you to that very note entry you created that included that picture. Wild, wacky stuff. There’s also the ability to add someone’s public notebook to your RSS reader.

I’ve created a Public Notebook where I’m sharing some of my likes/dislikes/bugs along with experimenting with it as a blog format. You can read it over here.

I have about 10 invites if anyone wants to give it a test run as well. Just let me know in the comments section here.

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