Dave’s Place / Metamusing

Evernote is an excellent little personal knowledge base. It runs on macs and pcs, will soon run on iphones and blackberries, and runs on the web. You can always get at your stuff no matter what platform you dump info into, and you can control what gets synced to their servers and what stays local on your machine. You can also control the availability of materials, making some publicly available and other stuff private.  It’s also got incredible image recognition/OCR software integrated in it, so you can do things like hold a business card up to your laptop’s camera, import it into evernote, and then later search for the person by name and it will find the card. It’s even ok at recognizing my horrible handwriting.

I have 10 invites to their beta. It’s free - their business plan is to eventually start charging on the volume of materials you store on their server, so in one sense it’s going to be free forever if you’re frugal. If you want in on the beta, leave me a comment and tell me what email address to send the invite to and I’ll get you set up. If I don’t hear from anyone after a week or so I’ll hand them out over on inviteshare.

I should mention that it’s worth running through the short screencast on the homepage of the evernote site to get a sense of how it works. It’s really cool tech.