So I Subscribed To Evernote’s Premium Plan
It has been one month since I subscribed to Evernote’s Premium Plan. I love their application so much! It has made my life never been so easy and most importantly my notes are more organized now.
Before Evernote?
I usually read online news while I commute to work. However due to the time is too short, I manage to read 2 or 3 articles, if lucky enough I am able to come across 4 articles, but usually it will be a quick screening rather than details reading. The overall reading is inefficient.
Flipping through many contents, occasionally there might be some interesting contents we wish to keep. So I bookmark every web pages I come across. The bookmarks grow day by day, until I couldn’t manage it. So to solve this, I come out a naming system (labels and keywords) to maintain the bookmarks. But things just become complicated and troublesome.
After Evernote
Starting using Evernote, most of the problems seems to be solved, by using the plugin, web clipper, provided by Evernote. Web Clipper is a chrome extension which you can find it in chrome web store or you may find it installed together with the Evernote’s desktop client.
The features
1. Clip content without hassle
I click the Evernote’s web clipper whenever I found an article to bookmark. Evernote’s web clipper will launch and analyse the content of the web page. It is very clever in identifying the title of the page and the region to clip.
2. Different clip format
Evernote provides different clip format, such as full page, article, simplified article, bookmark, screenshot and selection. Kudos to Evernote as it can intelligently select the main content and ignore those advertisement, comments or navigation bar on a page.
3. Text highlight
One great thing in Evernote’s Web Clipper is their on web page highlight. It allows you to do highlight before sending over to repository.
4. Labels/ tags
Most importantly the tags. I use labels to tag each document to different categories, so I can easily refer back at later dates.
5. Full text search
The next feature I like is their full text search capability. Apparently Evernote indexes all the text in the notes, so that it is able to quickly looking for the right notes based on the input keywords.
6. PDF annotation
Recently, it has added in their PDF annotation features. The annotated text will be displayed on the top of the page. It helps you easy to read and refer the PDF document.
7. Web Clipper in Android
I spend a lot of time on my phone. For example, reading, writing, socializing and video streaming. Evernote’s android app also allows us to clip content from the mobile browser through the share button.
Lastly, I would suggest all the researchers, writers or readers who do heavy reading and note writing to try it out. It will help you save a lot of time on managing the content and later finding back the content you have read before.
Do you think it is useful? Please leave your comments below on your experience of using Evernote or other notes taking tools before.