It's no secret I love Delicious bookmarking. Since it's web-based I can get to it from any Internet connection. Delicious is sharable, sociable (meaning also a social network of sorts), and search-able by hash tags. With that being said, LET me tell you about Evernote.
Evernote has the strength of the Delicious bookmark but Evernote enables the same connectedness with EVERYTHING you could possibly want to save, not just bookmarks.
Things you can gather/add/tag/save into Evernote:
- bookmarks (that's where Delicious stops)
- clips of web pages
- notes (Google docs are free, MS Office docs offered in Premium service)
- PDFs
- scanned documents
- wav files
- images
- emails
- text messages
- Tweets
- photos taken of white-board notes, which Evernote can then scan for text in the picture :0
All this information can be synchronized/synched between your laptop, desktop, iPad, iPod, Droid, or the Web.
You categorize the items/things listed above as individual "notes" into notebooks, and you can assign one or more tags to each note. Then you can search the text in the title, the note itself or as one of the tags.
You may have heard the term, 'cloud computing' before. The term is usually associated with hosting information, data, or files on-line with a third-party vendor. Evernote can be considered a 'cloud' application because it's all kept electronically online.
Evernote notebooks are sharable by email invitations and the sharing of a web link as well as embedding a widget into any web page. There is a limit of 100 notebooks.
Did I mention this application and/or service is FREE???
~Liz Goodwin
Evernote links to checkout:
My 'Notebook' on this blog post!
Getting Started
Evernote Blog
The Trunk
Teaching PowerPoint of Evernote
