{"id":2242,"date":"2008-02-23T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/23\/taking-notes-online-still-looking\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T23:57:00","slug":"taking-notes-online-still-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/23\/taking-notes-online-still-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking notes online: Still looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must have missed this the other day, but apparently Evernote — the note-taking desktop software app — has launched an online version<\/a> as an invitation-only beta. I wish I had been more on the ball, because TechCrunch had a bunch of invites<\/a>, but of course they were probably gone in a matter of minutes. That’s usually what happens, and the comments on the post suggest it happened this time as well.<\/p>\n

The video that Evernote has of the app at work (which is also here<\/a>) looks pretty slick, and I know that lots of people swear by the desktop software. The main reason I haven’t used it — or Microsoft’s OneNote<\/a>, or any of the other “backup brain” note-taking solutions — is that you have to install them on every computer you use, keep them synched, etc. This is the biggest attraction of a Web-based version.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried — and still occasionally use — a bunch of different note-taking apps, including the ScribeFire plugin<\/a> for Firefox, which I believe my friend Paul Kedrosky is also a fan of (or used to be), as well Google’s Notebook app and Clipmarks. At one point I was using Clipmarks.com to post to my blog, but it was too cumbersome and didn’t include support for tags. I mostly just use del.icio.us to save pages I want to remember, but as much as I like how simple it is, it lacks a whole pile of features.<\/p>\n

I really wanted to like Google’s Notebook app, but I have to say it: It sucks. It’s clunky and kludgy and just plain goofy — it doesn’t make you want to use it, it doesn’t make it easy to see or organize the things you’ve clipped. It just sucks. I was really hoping that it would be the one-shot solution that would let me pull together bits and pieces that I come across on the Web into some kind of coherent whole, but it isn’t. If Evernote can do that, then I just might become a fan. But first I need an invite \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I must have missed this the other day, but apparently Evernote — the note-taking desktop software app — has launched an online version as an invitation-only beta. I wish I had been more on the ball, because TechCrunch had a bunch of invites, but of course they were probably gone in a matter of minutes. … <\/p>\n

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