Evernote

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Evernote is a suite of software and services used for note-taking and archiving. Evernote software is available on a variety of different platforms and user data is stored locally in a proprietary format. Evernote services provide a means to back up / synchronize data across devices.

Contents 1 Features 2 Integration 3 Data Export 4 Criticism 5 See Also

Features

• Notes don't need to be named in order to be stored
• Categorization via tags and "notebooks"
• Full-text search, faceted search, and seach-within-images via OCR
• Note context like date and location is stored automatically
• Inline images within notes
• The ability to embed any kind of file within a note
• Easy note-capture via the app, website, bookmarklets, browser extensions, or via email

Integration

A variety of apps and services integrate with Evernote including:

• Confluence, Atlassian's enterprise wiki
• Whitelines Link, an iOS app for scanning documents (also has email and Dropbox integration)
• IFTTT - see evernote blog post

Data Export

Evernote data can only be exported via the desktop application and is available in either HTML or the Evernote XML format (.enex).

Criticism

• "Evernote’s employees read your private notes in order to “improve machine learning”!" [1] [2]
• "You cannot opt out of employees looking at your content" [3]

See Also

• silos
• notes