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Saturday, February 23, 2008

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EverNote Heads into the Cloud

This is certainly going to be interesting. Most Tablet PC users know of EverNote. The note taking, info gathering application that allows you to Ink notes, capture data from the web, and stores it in one long roll of information that is easily searchable. Primarily a desktop application, it has been one a stable of many Tableteers because of its Inking features. Back in November of 2007 they released an unsupported technical preview of EverNote for Windows Mobile as a market test that allowed you to Ink and capture notes on your mobile device and do some syncing with your desktop or Tablet PC. I was more than pleased with the technical preview when I gave it a try.

Well, now EverNote is upping the ante and heading into the cloud. They’ve announced a private beta (general release is targeted for March) of a web version that aims to allow you to grab, store, search, and retrieve your data from just about any device. Think about that. For those who are platform agnostic, you would theoretically be able to grab your data on any platform you’re working with at the moment. TechCrunch has plenty of details on the beta and also a limited number of private beta invites. I’ve signed up and here’s hoping I’ll get a chance to check it out soon.

Here’s a quote from the TechCrunch article:

In the words of CEO Phil Libin, “The main idea of Evernote is to create an external brain.” Evernote lets you highlight any portion of a Web page and clip it, or take a picture with your camera phone and send it to your PC or the Web. Each of these digital “notes” is archived and can be searched, including any words (even handwritten ones) visible in those pictures. For instance, you can search for “crazy milk sake” and all the pictures of sake bottles will come up, with the the word “crazy,” “milk,” and “sake” highlighted in yellow

Again, I was very impressed with EverNote for Windows Mobile. I’m excited and anxious to see how this will work with EverNote in the Cloud. Meanwhile check out this video or this publicly available notes site for what’s up with EverNote on the web.

Via Cybernet

Tags: EverNote, Tablet+PC

Mobile | Software | Tablet PC

2/23/2008 8:02 AM MST

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Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:35:32 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

hmm, windows mobile. redfly anyone? lets just say i cant wait for the review ;)

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Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:24:38 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

I think this is going to be a very big deal. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention in the comments. I consider what Evernote is doing to being the "missing link" in notetaking. Place it on a desktop, place it on a mobile device and then put it in the cloud to link everyone together.

Their earlier model of having to sync the database was a kludge. It worked, but you had to be careful in making sure the application was closed and not running in the background or you risked data corruption.

One thing I noticed in the "publicly available notes section" is that all of the notes contained Google Ads. That's interesting. I certainly don't begrudge them the revenue. This is a business after all. But I wonder if that would turn-off anyone (not if it's free I'm sure).

I'm very curious to see what Microsoft will come up with. The OneNote team has been pretty quiet for a while. Many of us have been clamoring for the inclusion of inking functionality in the OneNote mobile application. There have also been some comments here and there about a web version.

OneNote is a far more robust application. But this new Evernote web service definitely takes things to a new level. I look forward to them expanding their beta.

Stephen Feger

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