Productivity Tools Review: Evernote

In this post from the series of reviews of productivity tools, I'll review an note clipping productivity tool called Evernote.

Evernote

Evernote is a note clipping tool made to capture info from a variety of sources while you navigate the web, recording audio, taking pictures of things, it's a very interesting tool to store information while doing research or for a related project.

Evernote main screen in Desktop version

You can create notebooks with a group of notes containing text, audio or images about your research or projects for a centralized interface, it helps a lot people whose findings happen when stumbling in these things around or by adding notes to organize or take actior later in the day.

Some interesting things you can do in Evernote:

• Plan your meals or grocery shopping (taking photos of products or ingredients to buy).
• Structure your academic research (attaching papers or snippets of text for citation).
• Write your diary (creating a note everyday).
• Record your classes and attach your notes.
• and many other interesting things...

Evernote Mobile version

And Evernote does have some killer features, like doing OCR in a image (extracting text from it), capturing metadata from a pic of a business card, offline storage (lets you to search and read your notes even without internet) and a very efficient search engine.

Evernote Widget for Android

You can interact with Evernote via Desktop, Mobile (Widget and App) and some extensions (Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome, for example), and all the data is stored in the cloud too, letting you capture and organize your notes while on road.

Pros:

• Many ways to add info for your notes.
• Many powerful features to structure your projects and find infomation in your notes.
• You can add virtually every type of media in your notes.

Cons:

• Free mode is very restricted (limits in uploading data, creating new notes and many interesting features are disabled).
• It's hard to manage (in the mobile version) your notebooks when you have dozens of projects or ideas happening in parallel .
• Takes too time to sync when there are dozens or hundreds of notes to update.

That's it! If you like to manage notes or capture data for your projects, give Evernote a try!