Guest post by Srikanth AD
There are many note taking applications like the Notefish, Microsoft OneNote, Google Notes, etc., but none of them let you take notes easier than the Evernote.
The best thing about this application is it works on any platform and you can jot down, capture, drag and drop virtually anything into this application and can search for the notes using the search functionality later.
Evernote is one of the best notes taking application that is available today. As Evernote runs on Windows, Mac, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows mobile, Palm Pre and also have a portable and webversion no matter where you are you can always take quick notes and sync the data between the devices using the Evernote web service such that the database can be kept updated always. With the use of Evernote web clipper you can clip anything on the web to the notebook easily.
What all you can you capture using Evernote?
Virtually you can capture anything to Evernote and make a note in the notebook and access the notes by searching such that you remember the things just like you do. It is a great organizer as well you can copy lists and to do notes to Evernote you can type in text, it has support for handwriting (OCR) to make your handwritten notes into searchable notes. Capture a picture of whiteboards, business cards, magazine labels or any handwritten or text images and copy them to Evernote with the use of complex recognition technology Evernote will make the text in the images searchable and you can also add tags to the notes for quick search. You can create as many notebooks and tags as you want and organize your notes in for easy search.
Synchronization
When you first install Evernote on a device you will be asked to Sign In to your account or if you do not have an account yet you can create one for free. This account helps you to sync the database between various devices like your Windows Computer, MAC, iPhone or Windows mobile and web such that you can lookout for the note wherever you are. With the help of the web service you can also look for the notes on any internet enabled devices where you have access to Evernote web page.
All the notes that you create will be stored in Notebooks you can add any amount of data in a Notebook or create a separate Notebook for each task. You can create as many Notebooks as you want. In Evernote there are two kinds of Notebooks you can create it by going to File–>New and Notebook in this screen you can select a Local Notebook or a Synchronized notebook. As the names suggest you local notebooks are saved on to the local computer where as the Synchronized notebooks content can be uploaded to the Evernote web service to sync with your other devices.
Export and Import notes
You can export and import note at your wish and will, exporting notes from Evernote is never this easy select the note(s) that you want to export, right click and select export in the export screen you can select the file format in which you want to export the notes you can choose .html, .mht, .txt and .enex (Evernote file format) file formats. In the .html and .enex file format you can exports everything including the tags information where as in .mht and .txt formats only the text is exported. This is a great feature if you want to share your notes with your friends or want to have a backup copy of the notes.
Importing notes is just as easy as exporting them all that you have to do is click on the file menu–>Import and choose from where you want to import the files from. If you are using Microsoft OneNote before and migrating to Evernote no problem you can Import all your notes from the OneNote without any change. The file import Wizard will guide you step by step if you want to import files from elsewhere. You can Import about anything like pictures, class notes images, web clips, etc., to use as notes and Evernote will make you search for the notes better.
Creating notes on Evernote
Note taking in Evernote is easy you can add to the existing note or you can create a new note by clicking the new note button that is present at the bottom and you can start typing the note in the space provided you can also drag and drop images and other things in the space such that they will be saved automatically you do not have to save the notes manually. Using the advanced tool bar for formatting options and find many other useful tools. You can also select the Ink note taking option if you wish to have a handwritten notes this feature makes note taking as easy as writing on a paper using pen. Start written using the required tool like the tablet and the handwritten notes will be converted into text automatically. And the other tools present will help you to edit the text and other options like the pen thickness.
If you are want to add images to the notes (multimedia notes) you can take a picture from your phone or use your webcam or scanner to add picture to the notes and make the text inside the image searchable. This is very useful when you are on a move with the help of your camera phone take a snap of the product on the shelf in a store or take a snap of the whiteboard in a meeting. You can snap off just about anything and search for the text in the image it is that simple. You can also import folder and its contents to Evernote easily using the File import wizard such that you can import all the files and document in that folder to Evernote for easy search.
Clipping feature of Evernote is worth discussion using this feature you can clip emails, screenshots, etc to add to the notes such that you can edit the contents later and text in the clips are searchable. If you are a busy internet user and want to have memory of some of the web pages then you can use Evernote Bookmar
klet in your browser to add a portion of the web page to your notes and also retains the URL of the web page such that you can visit the web page again if you want this is quick way to remember things and recollect them at your wish. You can clip any of the text or images in the email or web pages by selecting the content and clicking on the clip Bookmarklet. You can also record audio using Evernote and listen to it whenever you want you can upload the audio to the Evernote server to be accessible from anywhere.
All the notes that you add to the notebook are coupled with the time band such that you can know when and where you have collected the notes. The latest notes will be present at the bottom of the notebook and you can scroll through the notebook easily to see all the notes in it. By using the search bar you can locate any text in any of the notebooks in an instance which saves your time so you have enough time to think about something useful.
Tagging notes is one another very useful function such that you can organize the notes accordingly. No matter Evernote can find you the notes for you when you search based on the keywords but tagging the notes makes it even easy such that you can see all the related notes under the tag for better understanding.
Evernote is one note taking application that will impress anyone and everyone can kind the features they need in this one simple application. With multiple features and abilities 
Evernote is very easy to understand and a new user can easily start note taking using Evernote without any problem. This application is great for busy persons like researches, businessmen and scholars the ability to sync between different devices and easy use make it an application apart from others.
Evernote has free and paid services in the free service you can use 40MB of data uploading per month and in the paid service this is up to 500MB per month and has better OCR functionality and a one year subscription will cost you $45 and can get better technical support and security features.
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