THE TITLE ON the Evernote website reads "Remember everything". And it stays true to this claim. Essentially just a free note taking application, Evernote outshines other similar programs by building on the concept and making it easier to access your notes from anywhere through the Internet. What's more, you are not restricted to just taking notes on your PC, but you can scribble something on your Windows Mobile phone and a Mac and still have access to it. The desktop client, included on the DVD, is very easy to work with. Installing it is a no-brainer although you need to have around 80MB of free space on your hard drive. Sign up and create an account on to get things going. Once that's out of the way, the desktop interface looks pretty much like any other email client. Your notebooks, tags, and other attributes can be seen in the left pane.



Notes can be viewed in list or thumbnail view, and you can email them too. Click on the top-left corner of a note (or press <Ctrl>+<9» to toggle between Text or Ink - a cool feature that recognizes handwritten notes and drawings. You can also import notes and pages from Microsoft OneNote 2007. In your personal Evernote account settings, don't forget to note down your Evernote email address and feed it to your contact list. Every message sent to your Evernote email is highlighted as a new note. This feature is especially beneficial on a cell phone and if you are habituated to frequent notetaking. Evernote can also recognize embedded geo-tag info in a photo or data and direct it on Google Earth. There's also a very handy Web Clipper extension for Firefox which lets you capture Web pages as notes. The service is still in beta, and the monthly space is limited to just 40MB per account for free users. But don't let that dissuade you from using Evernote to capture screenshots or
scribble notes that you would otherwise forget.