Evernote is a feature packed note taking application that synchronises it’s data into the cloud, allowing access from a variety of devices and software clients, such as iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X, Sandisk U3 USB Flash Drives and a web interface.
Evernote allows for a variety of different types of notes to be saved in Notebooks, including text, freehand drawings, voice or audio recordings, and photos with searchable text. Notes can be tagged with keywords or put into separate notebooks to aid organisation and searching of stored notes.
A great example of the power of Evernote is taking a photo of a business card from a mobile device, uploading the image of the card and then being able to search on information such as names and contact details from that business card to be searched upon, no more having big piles of business cards lying around or manual data entry.
For all but the heaviest of users, the free account proves more than adequate allowing a maximum of 40Mb of data transfer into the cloud per month, you can however, upgrade to a premium account at $5 (approx £3.50) per month or $45 (approx £33) per year which increases your transfer limit to 500MB per month and gives additional features such as SSL encrypted data transfer. Each account also comes with an email address so that you can forward email messages with useful information to be stored within the Evernote system for future reference.
The only drawback I can find is when using the application on a mobile device, your note data is not stored locally as well as in the cloud as it is on a non-mobile device, requiring a connection to the Internet to upload newly created notes and view previously created ones.
