What IS Evernote? Evernote CEO, Phil Libin calls his product “your external brain.”
In short, Evernote is a server-based note and clippings application, which syncs to client apps that you install on your Mac or Windows computer and on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Blackberry.
Yes, that’s right, It’s cross platform. Foley is finally writing about something that the Windows users out there can enjoy too!
Evernote allows you to create Notes from virtually any source you could imagine. Your notes can be images that you’ve grabbed from iPhoto, or that you have snapped with your iPhone camera (or even your computer’s built-in iSight camera,) they can be an excerpt of text from an email, a sticky, or the contents of a web-page. Additionally, a note can be an audio file, voice-memos, and even video notes taken from your computer’s built-in camera.
You can then organize your Notes into Notebooks, and you can have as many Notebooks as you need to have.
You can add meta tags to your Notes, and then use Evernote’s built-in search function to quickly locate a Note, even if you don’t remember which Notebook you’ve stored it in.
In this way, you can quickly call up Notes which are topical, or which reference another note. You can also reference your notes by day, week, or month. It’s like having a search engine in your brain!
This might be you: I can think of several FoleyPod clients right off the top of my head who already perform a version of this with Microsoft Word documents and multiple folders. Think of Evernote as a note/thought organizer akin to the manner in which iTunes helps you organize your music, and iPhoto helps you organize your images.
Now once you’ve created your notes, Evernote syncs everything up to their server. This means that you can access everything on your mobile device,
from another computer running Evernote (Mac or Windows,)
or even from the computer at the library, by logging into your Evernote account via a web browser.
There are 2 account types, Free and Premium. The Free account type is, well, free.
The Premium account costs $5 per month, and gives you more storage space while removing the random yet completely non-intrusive ads which appear in the corner.
I’ve been using a free account for almost a year now, and have not yet felt the need to upgrade, but would do so if I needed the extra storage.
Additionally, Evernote provides excellent customer support, and hosts a great features and tutorial blog on their site, with frequent updates.
Give Evernote a shot for free, and you’ll never have to write anything down again!
Find out more about Evernote HERE.
Geek out!
~ Chris
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I am commenting on Chris’ post so he doesn’t feel totally ignored by the Ojai Valley community.
Maybe I’m being co-dependent by trying to “take care of” Chris’s feelings. But I worry when Ojai ignores important posts such as this one.
Our country — and the world — may be headed into a cesspool, but we NEED to talk about Evernote! The triune brain provided by nature/the divine is clearly not up to the task of negotiating today’s chaotic world. Evernote is the answer, and we are grateful for this “insider” heads-up.
The Ojai Valley NEEDS Notes and Meta-Notes! And if someone comes up with Meta-Meta-Notes, I hope we’re the first to hear about that — in detail! (After all, we can’t trust Evernote to do its own advertising.)
The Ojai Valley does NOT need more posts on trivial things like Obama’s black-out on 1) growing hemp in the U.S. 2) reviving solar energy 3) stopping torture, blah blah blah.
The more we talk about Evernote, the less we need to think about our homeless neighbors, a 500,000 square mile swath of plastic garbage in the Pacific, mass vaccination using toxic vaccines that have never been shown by science to prevent disease, impending martial law, etc. etc. Who needs that stuff when you have Evernote?
Keep it up, Chris. And special kudos to Tyler “Go Lakers” Cowen, editor of the cutting-edge Ojai Post.
You guys are absolutely amazing!
Sincerely,
Jock Doubleday
Director
Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.
A California 501(c)3 Nonprofit Corporation
http://spontaneouscreation.org/SC/links.htm
director@spontaneouscreation.org
Ojai needs Jock to turn- off his computer….
Another un-called for comment from Jock. I again found this write-up from Chris to be relevant and informative, especially since I’m a PC user and could take something useful from it!
Let me remind people that Jock is the same person who “warned” OP readers that an attack on US soil was imminent (he even named the day, if I memory serves), that El AL had “cancelled flights” in anticipation of their insider’s knowlege of such an attack, that Martial Law was coming soon (back in September, eh Jock?), etc. etc. Blah, blah, blah…
So to add to paranoia, we now have overt rudeness and a clear absence of class – generated obviously by juvenile feelings of hurt, resentment and unpopularity. Oh, the wrath of a Man of No Importance scorned!
And Chris, I’ve bookmarked this post for when I get my phone in the next couple of weeks! Thanks!
What does Google say today?
“He is absolutely dripping with anger and frustration, and any efforts to engage with his challenge cause him to retreat into deep denialism and aggression. It’s rather pathetic.”
http://www.layscience.net/node/464
“Maybe one day he’ll look back on this sorry little episode in his life, realize that he only hurt himself here, and apologize.”
http://www.ae911truth.info/pdf/JockDoubleday.pdf
“There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, an AIDS epidemic in Africa, or anywhere else for that matter.”
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/challenges/AVERT-Doubleday.html
“I can’t understand for a moment why so very many people think Jock’s just another crank. (Jock would also like you to know that the state of the world today is the result of an Illuminati conspiracy. Which, I suppose, may include your family doctor and the World Health Organization.)”
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/05/09/im-still-waiting-for-mail-from-jenny-mccarthy/
“Jock Doubleday, if you recall, is the genius behind the bogus $180,000 Vaccine Challenge, a challenge that, whenever someone actually offers to take him up on it, he seems to find a reason to run away. Indeed, several doctors have offered to take him up on it. After this kind e-mail from Jock, I’m half-tempted to take him up on it myself. I realize it’s a totally bogus challenge, but it might provide me with amusement.”
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/i_get_e-mail_too.php
“They followed the usual pattern: they told the same old lies, they told partial truths distorted out of all recognition, and they omitted all those other truths that contradict their beliefs.”
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=322
“I can only assume that this means that he thinks that I would survive without any damage, and this can only be because I am not like other humans (perhaps due to my lizardly Illuminati blood protecting me). Or maybe Jock thinks that I might actually take him up on his absurd offer and show what a farce it is.”
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/gentlebirth.htm
“If I was a more cynical man I’d say that’s not so much of a contract as an endurance test designed to make everyone with an actual life of their own say ‘Sod this, I could be having a curry or watching Father Ted‘, both of which are activities much more interesting and enjoyable than satisfying the terms of that contract. But then the same could be said of watching paint dry.”
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=473