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Submitted by Zak Reiter on December 19, 2008 - 9:21pm.
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4 Stars
Price as rated: Free
Version reviewed: 1.5.1
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iPhone Alley's Review
by Zak Reiter
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Evernote is a great application for saving audio, image or text notes. Instantly connect to the Evernote server to synchronize and view all your notes for as far back as you can look. Evernote even includes text recognition, allowing users to search for text within the images they took.

Among the many functions of Evernote, the text recognition stands out the most. While it is a bit touchy, it works pretty well with large words and proves to be a nice organization/ search function.

All notes save to the Evernote server online, and they can be viewed by logging into the website or by accessing the application on your iPhone. All notes can be based to a location for mapping purposes and save in chronological order.

A great feature is the audio notes. These can record for up to five minutes and all save on the server, thus being listenable online.

Pros: Versatile, text recognition, classy layout

Cons: Text recognition can be buggy

Bottom Line: Evernote is a well-developed note-taking application with some great software attached. Try it out, it's free!

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Submitted by hauntedtrail13 on December 20, 2008 - 11:12am.
I will definitely have to check this one out. I take notes on like everything i do. So this might be useful.

Submitted by adrian on December 21, 2008 - 9:57am.
Although I agree with this review and I use evernote myself, something I think people need to realize is that evernote saves documents in its own proprietary format and it is not possible to export the files in their native formats. I use evernote as well as yojimbo. This way I can access all my documents online but I can also still retain all the documents in their native format using yojimbo. Not a perfect solution but until yojimbo offers an iphone sync/ online solution this is what I have been doing

Submitted by thelarster on December 23, 2008 - 12:14pm.
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Originally Posted by adrian View Post
Although I agree with this review and I use evernote myself, something I think people need to realize is that evernote saves documents in its own proprietary format and it is not possible to export the files in their native formats. I use evernote as well as yojimbo. This way I can access all my documents online but I can also still retain all the documents in their native format using yojimbo. Not a perfect solution but until yojimbo offers an iphone sync/ online solution this is what I have been doing

You can sync a lot of files in native formats now....

http://blog.evernote.com/2008/12/17/...ure-file-sync/

Submitted by adrian on December 23, 2008 - 1:49pm.
Wow, I never knew that until now.. I have the premium service too.... I think for now I will still use yojimbo as well but unless they come out with some updates pretty soon, I may be switching completely to evernote