In A Nutshell

• Desktop Application for Windows and Mac
• Synchronizes with online storage
• Universal Clipper captures text and images
• Search function can search for text within images
• Multiple Notebooks to help keep information organized
• Simple drag and drop to move notes around
• Notes can be shared through email
• OCR used to scan images for indexing

Bugs & Flaws

• none experienced so far

My Review

I am not a hardcore Evernote user. I simply use Evernote to gather stuff that I can’t read at the moment but would like to read in detail during my free time.

Evernote is simple enough to use that everything it can do for you is pretty much obvious.

The most important tool in Evernote is the ‘Universal Clipper’ which sits quietly in your taskbar. There are only two shortcuts to remember:

1. windows key + printscreen (captures defined screenshot and inputs directly to evernote as a new note)
2. windows key + A (select text then use this command to capture the selected text)

Taking it out for a run, I captured some articles from newspond using the shortcut “win + A” and you will see these are the 3 notes in my note list screenshot above. These 3 notes are in my default notebook, but I can move them to a different notebook by simply dragging them to the notebook I want on the left navbar.

Now to capture an image for Evernote.

The first screenshot is what you see when you do a capture with “win + prntscrn”. The second screenshot is what Evernote does with the captured image. It scans and indexes it. After it is indexed, I can search any text contained in the captured image. Pretty neat if you ask me! The OCR is not perfect, but it is functional and very usable.

As a firefox user, I use the bookmarks and bookmarks toolbar a lot. But that isn’t enough to capture details, images, and articles I’m interested in. Evernote fills up that important gap and makes things a bit simpler and easier.