I’ve been working on a project at work for several years now and about 4 years ago, I started looking for a good note taking application instead of trying to remember which tablet I took a note from which meeting. At that time there was this new company, Evernote, that thought you should take your notes in a chronological fashion because that is how you remember things. Their product was in it’s infancy and really didn’t have that many features. So I ended going with Microsoft One Note. Now don’t get me wrong, One Note has tons of really nice features; especially if you are using the entire Office suite. It has great Outlook, Word, and Excel integration and still is my work note taking program.
I wanted to have a seperate application for my personal notes, teaching notes, etc. and for that I have chosen Evernote. Evernote really has grown up; it has tons of very nice features but one of it’s best is the ability to run it on several different operating systems (including the web) and have all of your notes sync between the different systems. They have clients for iPhones, OSX, and Windows. This means you can write a note on your computer and be able to pull it up on your iPhone. How cool is that?
They continue to improve the product and their goal is “to be your virtual mind for the rest of your life”.
I highly recommend this product and believe it will help you to move to the paperless world and by the way, it is free.
Later,
matt
