Evernote review on this day in history archive#

Manziel retired from boxing and moved to East Texas in the 1930s to try his luck in the oil fields as a wildcatter. Then, when I was writing the story and had to look up something, I could use Evernote to instantly search the entire text of those files.Īn example: I came across several old news stories about the friendship between Manziel’s great-grandfather, a wildcatter and boxer named Bobby Joe Manziel, and heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. I used Evernote to save every article, court record and web page I came across during the course of my reporting. But I realized how powerful this tool could be when I worked on a story about the family history of Johnny Manziel several years ago. Related: Go back in time with Cogi to record fleeting momentsĮvernote isn’t perfect - its desktop app can get sluggish and I get frustrated with it sometimes. This even applies to anything you take a picture of that has words, such as business cards, thanks to Evernote’s sweet optical character recognition capability.įor people like journalists who work on deadline, this can be incredibly useful for quickly finding a needle in a haystack. You’re searching the entire contents of everything you saved in Evernote. You’re not just searching the tags of your photos. When you type some words in Evernote’s search box, you’re not just searching the titles of your files.

Evernote review on this day in history archive#

But for me, Evernote really shines as a vast, searchable archive that allows you to comb the full-text of every web page, document, photo or note you’ve saved, and find what you need in seconds. Is it for taking notes? Saving bookmarks? Taking photos? All of the above?Įveryone’s needs are different. But even after all these years, some people have trouble grasping what, exactly, this mystical app is supposed to do.

Evernote turns eight years old this week.