EverNote is an online application, computer program (PC and Mac), and an iPhone and iPad application which allows you to keep what you find. You can clip pieces of web pages, bookmark whole pages, enter any document from your computer, record audio, video, or pictures into EverNote, you can scan pictures and documents, Literally anything you can get into a computer can go into EverNote.
While this is stupendous enough, the real value in EverNote is that all of these different forms of information can be searched. In EverNote you can even search for text in pictures. All of these abilities are also synced across every EverNote installation you may have (I have it on two different computers, and an iPhone). This means that if you enter hundreds of PDF files from your computer, you would also have immediate access to all of these files on your phone.
As you could imagine, EverNote is a pretty handy tool for a wealth of things. I do almost all of my research for teaching and history issues (a hobby of mine), I even do research for this blog using EverNote. There is an EverNote freeware version with a 50 megabyte limit, or the premium version which has unlimited storage and a 500 megabyte upload per month limit for $5.00 @ month. My point is that you can try this out for free, just to see if it has any value for you.
To give you a better idea of the number of things you could use EverNote for I have a number of links:
http://markstout.blogspot.com/2009/10/many-uses-of-evernote.html
http://www.christianpf.com/how-to-use-evernote-creative-uses/
http://storecrowd.com/blog/creative-evernote/
http://www.inquisitr.com/2179/evernote-why-it-will-make-it-20-awesome-ways-to-use-it/
http://www.andrewcmaxwell.com/2009/11/100-different-evernote-uses/
One of the biggest advantages of using EverNote is to enter a lot of information from your computer and access it in a very simple way on your phone (or even iPad!). You could use EverNote to help in becoming a completely paperless person. You could use EverNote for your tax records (including every receipt you have…kept in a pristine, rational storage spot), you could use your smart phone to take pictures and audio at a car accident (for later documentation…just in case).
If you were to get the ScanDock, you could use any smart phone to directly scan any document into EverNote. The ultimate list of uses for this program might be endless…
