Don’t Take Notes- Snap Them With Evernote
The Public Service Announcement for the day is for those who are always stopping to jot notes in a notebook. You see a notice on a board, or even something on a computer screen, so you jot it down before you forget it. I’m here to save you a lot of time with this tip. Use Evernote, and instead of jotting notes down everywhere, snap them with your phone camera.
Evernote is the note-taking app extraordinaire that lives on the web and does some seriously good things with your notes. The time saver I am sharing is the best way to get those notes into the system. When you see that sign, the notice on the board, or even something on your computer screen that bears remembering, pull out your smartphone and snap a photo in Evernote. There are versions of Evernote for the BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile, so just about every smartphone is covered. The desktop is covered with both Mac and Windows versions to go along with the web version that works in just about any browser.
Once you snap the photo in Evernote, it is sent to your notebook in the cloud where some cool things happen to it. First and foremost, Evernote looks at your photo image, and if it sees any words in the image, it indexes them for searching. That means that from now on, you can search for a word and every saved image that contains that word will be shown to you. Simple and easy. Try it, and you’ll quickly see how powerful this can be. This is by no means the only way to use Evernote, but I’ll share more on that soon.
This is one of my favorite uses for Evernote….especially now with the 3GS autofocus camera….the image recognition on text works MUCH better! Another question on Evernote – (I cant get an answer from those guys – even as a Premium user) – what about PDF thumbnail viewing? There is non on the web app and the iPhone app…only for JPG – and I do a LOT of PDF clipping and scanning…anyone heard if this is coming or even possible?
Yes this is a great app to have for note taking etc… many uses like James said. This comes in handy to review also when your using MID, or UMPC. Works great with the S5 and ritePen.
taking photos is easier than jotting notes
i have more photos than actual notes now and i do send it to evernote.
Just about any smartphone is covered? Really? Obviously I have a minority phone. It’s made by a very small company called Nokia, uses a little known OS called S60, I believe. Not used on many phones, obviously.
Still works on a Nokia.
http://evernote.com/m/
Get pictures into it by emailing ‘em.
Easy ! Just not quite as easy as having a native app.
What seems like the incredibly rapid turnaround to get a WebOS app out is perhaps more about the ease of development of WebOS vs S60 ?