Once all those different bits of data are on the Evernote servers, they're synced to my other Evernote-capable devices, which include my iMac, iPad, and the Windows PC at my office there are also Evernote clients for Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS. And you can access your Evernote data online using most standard Web browsers.Īnother thing I like to do with Evernote is to organize data by project.įor example, every time I travel for work I set up an Evernote project specifically for that trip. In it I keep a note with my itinerary, PDF images of my boarding pass and airport shuttle tickets, maps of the places I'll be (as images), and a rich-text file containing notes I've taken beforehand. Having all of that information in one project folder makes it easy to access as I trudge my way through a travel day.īecause I have an Evernote Premium account ($5 per month or $45 per year), I can download local copies of those project folders to my iPad and iPhone and so have access to them even when I don't have an Internet connection.

And while I'm traveling I can take pictures of receipts, business cards, and other paper detritus I want to save using the Evernote iPhone app that all goes in the trip folder, too. In addition to setting up folders for specific projects, you could also create them for individual clients, for sales leads, or for almost anything else that calls for collecting information in a variety of formats.

Note: In addition to letting you download local copies of your data, Premium accounts add several other useful features: They enable you to OCR PDFs (more on that in a second). They also raise the monthly upload cap (from 60MB to 1GB), support bigger files (50MB instead of 25MB), provide versioning for written notes, and more.Įvernote doesn't just hold your data in some cases, it can actually improve on it. Specifically, when Evernote imports an image file, it scans that image for text and then adds that text to the image file's index. It's a really powerful tool.įor example, I'm a tea geek. When I find a good tea, I snap a picture of its label and save that picture to Evernote. Evernote's servers then analyze the uploaded image and save whatever text they can recognize. Which means that I can later search Evernote for monkey picked oolong and my picture of the tea label will show up-even though I never typed that word myself. I can imagine lots of productive uses for this feature-processing and indexing business cards is only the most obvious.

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