Much More Than A Notetaking App

Calling this a note taking app is like calling an iPhone the modern version of the telegraph, it may be true, but it doesn’t begin to cover the ground. As a writer and blogger it is my primary research and writing tool, whether it’s storing a paper from the web in captured HTML or storing, searching and annotating a PDF or MS Doc.

I use the free webclipper extension for Chrome (and other browsers) to put found news and research items in one of the twenty or so research project note books I have going at any one time. Want a full screen shot or to capture a map image from Google or MS? It’s right there in a free tool bar gadget, or record a voice feed the same way. I don’t remember the last time I opened Grab.

I bought the annual premium plan after using the app for only a few weeks, this adds 10 GB of new uploads each month, access to notes while offline, searching in Office docs & attachments, the ability to turn notes into presentations, clip from anywhere on the web, sharing and discussing notes in Evernote Sync across phones and computers, scanning and digitizinjg business cards, passcode lock on mobile apps anjd even the ability to automatically view net content related to your notes and the ability to annotate attached PDF. Finally, and vitally, I can save emails istraight into Evernote. My note pads are literally bursting with thousands of notes, pdf ranging from forms to book length, all synced completely and seamlessly with my iPad and phone.

The notes are easy to dump into one of the blogs I write for, and it does all the formatting I ask for, save 1 thing. I want real footnoting, that way I’d never have to open Pages or Word again. I should also mention, as a Dragon user (which is still two steps ahead of the tech it gave to Apple for voice to text transcription), that it works perfectly with Evernote. Finally., it is frequently updated and their reputation for customer service is sterling. I ask a beta tester for Apple system software on both my primary office Mac and my iPad, and have never experienced a hiccup of any kind with Evernote - even digesting multiple multi-megabyte pdfs (something that will crash iTune or iBookss) leaves Evernote unfazed and ready to go.

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