I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a technophile. I love technology for technology’s sake. Cool gadgets are my thing. Applications are very definitely gadgets and the new Evernote beta is one of the coolest that I’ve seen in a while.

Why is it cool?

Let me give you 10 reasons…

  1. Cool Mac application with tags and smart saved searches
  2. Cool Web application that works and acts like the desktop app
  3. Synchronization between local client and Web client
  4. Email notes into the app (and sync them locally)
  5. IMAP access to your notebooks from anywhere
  6. iSight notes
  7. Server-side OCR for any image in any document you sync
  8. Webclip bookmark to send any web page into your Evernote notebook
  9. You can share your synched notebooks. I haven’t tried this yet, but am planning on doing so soon
  10. Did I mention that it is free?

It is very definitely a beta app and isn’t as full-featured as some of the other note taking applications (like Circus Ponies excellent Notebook) but its online features are what really make it hot. I love being able to email photos from my iPhone to my Flickr account and sending them into Evernote is probably even cooler.

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