EverNote: way cool software
I've just started experimenting with EverNote, a way cool program good for (among other things) organizing all those little research clippings a writer grabs from various places on the Internet.
It has a really slick interface, and I think it's going to be quite useful -- so I went ahead and registered it. It's on sale until January 15, 2008, for US$19.95, instead of the usual US$49.95 price.
And I gotta say I like their Google AdWords ad (you'll see it if you google "evernote":
www.EverNote.com: Info management that's so good our competition buys the keyword.The competition, apparently, is Microsoft's OneNote, but the reviews I found online seemed to generally agree that EverNote is a slicker, more-feature-rich product. So far, I like it a lot.
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Posted by Rob on Friday, December 28, 2007
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If you don't need the advanced features (e.g. image processing and text recognition), EverNote is free. The advanced features are disabled after sixty days, but the excellent basic features -- the storing, searching, and categorizing features that will satisfy most people's needs -- continue at no cost. It's hard to beat a price like that!
I've been using EverNote for about two years, since it was in late beta, and I love it. It's an important part of my non-fiction writing process.
I also use it as an idea file for my fiction and non-fiction. For fiction, I tag ideas using the "CLOSAT" scheme (to tag an idea as a Character, Location, Object, Situation, Action, or Theme) and some others. I haven't yet used it to organize a fiction work-in-progress.
And one more use in my writing: I use it to organize what I'm learning about writing.
Evernote is an awesome program. I have the 2nd version (free version). I've found it to be truly useful in keeping notes and the like on things I'm working on that require a lot of memory. Any worldbuilding I do goes into Evernote. I may buy the full version one day when I figure out what all the advanced functions are and find out I need them.
Thanks for recommending the product Mr. Sawyer! It's a valuable tool for writers I think.
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