Jake’s Life

I felt like I had to blog about this for some reason. It’s just that great.

Evernote, a note taking tool similar to OneNote, recently released a new version for Windows and Mac, as well as various web and mobile versions. I had tried Evernote way back when it first came out, and when it came down to that or OneNote, I chose OneNote. Now that this version has come out, I rapidly switched to Evernote (which makes it easy with their OneNote 2007 Import Wizard). I’ve also been expanding the use I have for this app, using it as:

• An archive for important paperwork, receipts, documents, certifications, etc.
• And image dump (Evernote has a neat feature that recognizes text in an image file!)
• Grabbing screenshots (select the screen clipper and you size the box to what you want and it will insert it in a notebook which you can save it from)
• Grabbing web content with the Firefox Web Clipper (select content on a web page and press a button dumps it into your notebook)
• Idea repository (they fly around my head all day)
• Code library (there’s so much code I have floating around for web development)