Friday Pick: Evernote

This week’s pick is an oldie but a goodie. Evernote is a great application for taking simple notes (some, but not a ton of rich text editing), and storing those notes in a cloud location for a long period of time (as the name implies, forever!).
The fantastic thing about Evernote is it’s search. Do you remember back in high school when you had a five-subject notebook? Think of Evernote as a infinity-subject notebook, but with global searching! Yeah! Now throw in cloud storage with local downloading, iOS, Mac, PC and web apps and an open API for tons of developers to make their own plugins for and you have the gist. Pretty cool, huh?
Now I know what you’re thinking… “I already use Microsoft Word, and…” I’m going to go ahead and stop you at Word! One of the guys that I get to work with used Word for YEARS for his sermons. When he would get asked about speaking last minute he would have to try to remember when he preached a sermon similar to the topic, or scour through new books, or try to remember everything he could about the subject. But since discovering Evernote, when he gets asked to preach on ‘grace’ he simply goes to his computer and searches Evernote for the word grace and can see past sermons, his thoughts and revelations on books and scripture, quotes, and stories which are all organized by subject already waiting for him. He has even scanned and OCRed pages from his favorite books!
Evernote is absolutely free with a few limitations (like file size, file type, etc), or $5/mo or $45/yr for premium which uncaps most things and enables note sharing, and text recognition in images (seriously, I don’t understand how this technology works!). Also, feel free to give them a call or an email if you are interested in team or non-profit discounts.

You can check out Evernote here, and download the iOS apps here for free.

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