Evernote – Remember Everything

Evernote lets you collect files, photos, links, or anything that gets your attention and put it in one (or several) folders so you can easily find them again. You can use it on your computer, your phone or your tablet. Although Evernote can also be used with your colleagues, I would personally say that it’s best for personal organizing. If you have hobbies, many interests or you like reading; Evernote makes it easy to sync your new discoveries so you can have them added to what you have already collected. You can even use it to plan your trip because it lets you keep documents, maps and plans all in one folder.

If you’re still wondering what Evernote actually does, I could give you an example. Let’s say you are going for a holiday and aside from having all your travel documents in one folder, you can also snap a picture of your car, add a GPS-tag to it and save it for when you get back from your holiday. You never know whether you’d be so hung over from having too much fun that you could completely forget where you parked your car, right? Well, to some people, all it takes is a few minutes at the supermarket to completely forget where they parked their car.

If you want to go premium, there is also Evernote Business for a more powerful productivity tool for you and your colleagues. You can do more because you have more storage and more options. You could even get business level support and simplified billing. Evernote Business is also secure, robust and reliable as the Evernote website describes.

There is really a wide range of features you can explore on this app. You can get an Evernote email and send everything there with hashtags. By doing so, you can automatically sort out those emails to the notebooks they belong to. You can also include audio notes so when you are out and about and you suddenly think of something but you don’t have a pen and paper to put it down with, you can record it and save it to your notebook in Evernote so you could ponder more on that idea later on. There’s an integrated audio player on your Evernote account that will play the audio recording for you without you having to leave the application.  

The thing I did not appreciate about Evernote at first though is how complicated it seemed. It took me some effort to get used to it and if you are not patient enough, you surely will just move on to finding another application instead. Thankfully, I stuck with it and now I am enjoying the benefits of keeping my personal stuff on track. It also looks as though Evernote users have become so devoted to the app that you’d think there’s a conspiracy going on.

Evernote is truly an innovative and intuitive productivity app that proves to be one of the best apps out there. Even with more and more rivals coming onto the stage, Evernote still holds a significant edge. Again you might need to read a manual when you first start using it but once you know the twists and turns, you will easily see how it could make your life so much easier.