Thursday, November 5, 2009

Free & Open Web App



Evernote - online personal organizer

I use Evernote personally, and would recommend it to students and colleagues alike. 

Evernote allows one to store 'notes' - little text files - online.  Easily accessible from home, work & cell phone.  Notes can be tagged and categorized for easy sorting.  In addition to text files, one can also record audio notes, or take photo notes with the camera on your cellphone.  What's more, Evernote has OCR built in, so a snapshot note can be searched as text just like any other text note.  All free.

For teachers, it's an extraordinary organizing tool - recording and categorizing the many tasks one has to manage and plan throughout the day.

For students it can serve a similar purpose, as a place to stow reminders on what to bring to school the following day, hints or tips on solving a particular math problem, or even a record of the current working draft of a writing piece.

1 comment:

Chris said...

Wow, this looks really interesting. I wonder if this integrates into some of the other apps that might be used by someone to stay organized such as iGoogle or Pageflakes.