I would like to chime in that this is a really good piece of software. I’ve thought about writing an entire discussion post about how much this helped me “get organized” after trying many other solutions.
If you have a smartphone, you can sync photos of any important papers, notes, signs, menu items, etc. to the Evernote servers, where they will not only be immediately available from your other devices, but they will also be automatically text-parsed and the text made searchable. So even if you were lazy and, say, snapped a picture of your rental contract before you signed it, but didn’t label this photo, you will be able to find it again just be searching for keywords like “contract” or your apartment name.
It also records voice notes and then text-parses the notes if they are relatively short. Of course this text is also searchable.
I have the paid service which allows you a larger amount of data storage and allows you to upload and search pdfs, which is useful if you want to use it for academic research.
Additionally it’s very well supported, Evernote just going to keep getting better and better over time. I was kind of annoyed that their pdf text searching function didn’t work very well, and then later realized that they had upgraded it.
I spent literally months trying to learn to use org-mode, then I tried to implement GTD inside Evernote, and had a working task management system within a day.
I would like to chime in that this is a really good piece of software. I’ve thought about writing an entire discussion post about how much this helped me “get organized” after trying many other solutions.
If you have a smartphone, you can sync photos of any important papers, notes, signs, menu items, etc. to the Evernote servers, where they will not only be immediately available from your other devices, but they will also be automatically text-parsed and the text made searchable. So even if you were lazy and, say, snapped a picture of your rental contract before you signed it, but didn’t label this photo, you will be able to find it again just be searching for keywords like “contract” or your apartment name.
It also records voice notes and then text-parses the notes if they are relatively short. Of course this text is also searchable.
I have the paid service which allows you a larger amount of data storage and allows you to upload and search pdfs, which is useful if you want to use it for academic research.
Additionally it’s very well supported, Evernote just going to keep getting better and better over time. I was kind of annoyed that their pdf text searching function didn’t work very well, and then later realized that they had upgraded it.
I spent literally months trying to learn to use org-mode, then I tried to implement GTD inside Evernote, and had a working task management system within a day.