I am a note-taker. Blog ideas, to do lists, story ideas, website addresses, I open up Notepad on my computer and take notes about them all. At least I used to. I kept losing track of notes or having to leave my laptop and go to my desktop so I could email myself notes on that computer. Or, back when I worked at MUN as an IT Consultant, I would need notes I had on my computer at work when I was home or vice versa. I kept thinking there had to be a different way. I knew about Google Notebook but I didn’t really like it. Then I found Evernote. I am typing this in Evernote right now and then I’ll paste it in the blog. Evernote can be downloaded for either a PC or Mac so you can use it on your computer. But what I love about Evernote is that you can access it on the web and also on your mobile device (my iPod Touch for me). If you use the desktop version you can sync it to make sure you have access to all your notes, whether on your computer, the web or your mobile device. There’s also web clipping so you can save full web pages or just sections of them. I only use the web version because I can just pop open the web page and start writing my notes.
Evernote is free but there is a premium version too if you’d like more monthly storage and the ability to sync a number of different file types but I’m pretty sure tech-reluctants will be very happy with the free version. There are other free, similar programs out there like the previously mentioned Google Notebook, and UberNote, to name just two. But for me, Evernote has made my tech life simpler and more organized. I hope it does the same for you.
