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By Jennifer Van Grove**]**
www.evernote.com

One of the reasons why i picked this article is because of the author, Guy Kawasaki, who is one of my favourite entrepreneurs, book writers, bloggers and twitters. Another reason is my interest in project management - organizing things - that when I saw keywords such as "archiving", "organize", "project management tool", they are like tags in my mind and things just click.

Evernote is downloadable desktop-based app that, according to Guy, "can dump notes, documents, photos and tweets into for future access from any computer with Internet access". Make note. Or 500,000 of them. Evernote is an evolutionary technology to make information easier to capture, more organizable and more efficient to track. Simply, it remembers things, big and small, and takes note of them for us. We cannot remember everything that we came across in life, nor can we store everything physically. Memo pad, note pads, stick-it notes all help us jot down things we need. However, information and things that need to be memorized multiply itself quickly that we cannot handle. And those well-organized, tidy book shelves and cupboards are indeed just a dream for most of us. For this reason, Evernote helps make us more practical in managing documents, things, sound and digital assets.

Evernote is like a human brain, it is similar, with some differences, but definitely more than that. It provides interesting features such as web clips, snapshots, email forwarding, note taking, image text searching, Eye-Fi wireless SC cards, etc. Contrary to human brain, Evernote does not forget or select particular things to memorize, nor does it age. Imagine here's the 'perfect whiteboard' -- covered by texts and drawings - how would you take notes of it? You may take 10 mins to drop every down into a piece of paper and quite possibly it will be gone in few days. However, the easier way will be to take a picture of it on your cell phone then dump it to your Evernote account and it will go everywhere with you, i.e. you just can't lose it! Ever have the thought "wish I have a pen and paper right now" when you see something that interests you? no worries,

Evernote takes note for you and it does lot more than that:
 * (1) Web clips**: instead of bookmarking or adding the whole link/web page of your favourite, drag the "Clip to Evernote" button in your Evernote account onto the web browser menu bar, then highlight the specific content that you want to keep within a webpage (e.g. the image of the sofa + product name + price) and click the button you just dragged. Try search it in your Evernote account and there it is -- it keeps the image and the text but not the link (you can still look into the original web source with the button on top). This way even the link is altered or changed IP you'll still have the content in Evernote.
 * (2) Text-searchable on images**: Yes! You can find the image you saved by searching the text on that particular image. For instance, take a picture of an object with text on with the widget, JotNot, on your iPhone, click the option save to Evernote. Next, login to your Evernote account and start typing a word from that object (image) in the search box and the image will show up with the word you just searched highlighted! Magic!
 * (3) One account, many devices**: the beauty of Evernote is in synchronize too all your devices with one account. When you saved a file in your mac, you will be able to find it in your iPhone, Blackberry, PC, etc.

Too many things, too little space. you will see more and more applications or related app features in the digital world. What I realize today in Web 2.0, when everybody is generating so much information and ideas and dump into the random digital space, that there is a real need in organizing information. Folders, achieves, standard database system, etc are no longer effective to organize things better. And it's not only about organize them but to make then SEARCHABLE! Google has showcased such a profound base of 'searchability' on Web 2.0. More of this type of database management app like Evernote are initiating - an evolution is nurturing right here. Fingers crossed. user:chiul

(the final exam model answers are fake**) **
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