What These Products Do:
In today electronic world, organizing information can be quite a challenge. This freeware category is designed to help you organize all those random bits of information hanging around your PC: bookmarks, articles, bits of text, interesting web links, shopping lists, to-do lists, recipes, tips, etc. It's a common problem but a difficult one to solve as the information is so disparate. Some folks have tried to solve the problem by using free form databases while others use beefed up text editors or multi-media snippet managers.
Editor's Choice:
Evernote approaches the problem by allowing you to store your notes on an endless "roll" of virtual paper. You can create notes on the roll, drag and drop them or cut and paste them. Images can be stored as well as text. You can access the stored information several different ways: by searching for keywords, by using a category classification such as "recipes", by the date it was created or any combination of these. Toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox allow web site information to be highlighted and moved directly to Evernote together with a hyperlink back to the web site. A similar capability is provided for Outlook email.
Sure, all this sounds nice but does it work? I evaluated Evernote for a month by using it to collect information for this newsletter. In this demanding task, I found it effective in doing the job and to work just about as well as anything else I've tried including Microsoft's OneNote. It's got a few annoying weaknesses though. The category system is weak. What is needed is the ability to assign tags not categories and to be able to search using those tags in the same manner as you can at del.icio.us and similar sites. That said, Evernote is an outstanding free product and will provide many folks with an excellent solution to note, snippet and general information management problems.
Product Specifications:
Evernote
Website: http://www.evernote.com/en/ License: Freeware
Download File size: 2.8 MB
Windows Operating Systems Supported: 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista
64 Bit Capable:No
Portable Version Available: Yes (EverNote Portable 2.72)
Additional Software Required: None
This software category is maintained by volunteer editor Jean-Denis Laval.
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I just found out that (oddly) evernote portable is not freeware.
However I've been using evernote since they started out (thanks Gizmo!) and it is by far the most life-changing piece of software I've seen.
I particularly recommend it to academics as a lab book...
I use post-it notes but he is to much simple, i prefer it to post on slow computers
Upvise is good. It´s basically Google Notebook but it also offers java app for mobile sync. Peak Notes is web sticky notes that also comes with mobile client.
www.upvise.com
http://www.olivepeak.com/peaknotes/
I use a combination of Evernote (I bought the commercial version) and Google's Notebook (Both integrate into Firefox). I like them both.
I use Flashnote, but it's not as extensive over Evernote, which I find it more interesting than Flashnote. http://softvoile.com/flashnote/
What about the scrapbook add-in for firefox? I have replaced evernote with that now - it's simple and integrated into the browser in a bookmarks fashion with search capabilities.
If Scrapbook did IE (still 80+% market share), and it did OL 2007 like Evernote does, and it allowed me clip from my news group reader, and I could a clip screen scrape from a PDF, and I could copy paste from my media manager, and I could use it on my 3G phone - then I might use Scrapbook
I do all those things and more with Evernote - scrapbook is OK, if your only app is firefox (which I am using right now).
The latest free Evernote is too limited for me, I also vote for Scrpabook.
I find ScrapBook 2.20 which needs no instalation very handy on the desktop
http://www.scrapbook.enware.info/
I have been using Quicknote for the last month or so and it has changed my life. One downside is that you can't store images, but other than that I have been able to keep all those scraps of information I want in a very organised and easy manner!
Evernote is terrific.
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