BP12_2009103_Web_2.0_Tools_Evernote

Evernote




What if the personalization and functionality of a blog, the organizational flexibility of tags such as those used in flickr, and the ability to copy or link to internet text, audio, video, and images were combined into one resource. That’s Evernote.com.

Evernote.com is a website that hosts an online notebook and related tools that allows users to capture and store entire web pages or selected text, articles and images. Similar to tagging images using flickr.com, Evernote entries can be tagged, sorted, and retrieved using categories or keywords. Using browser plug-ins or optional software, Evernote notebooks can be downloaded and synced between an online account, desktop computer, or mobile device. Online, individuals can share through networks, email, or embed or forward notebooks to other services such as blogs or tweets. At every level, students and teachers can use this tool to organize their day to day work, events, and activities. Like a digital version of a spiral notebook, users can create to do lists, add and organize notes, enter assignments, or anything else thing else that would traditionally be written in a binder or notebook. Lost assignments or illegible notes could potentially be things of the past and it can be accessed at school, home, or anywhere in between with any internet enabled device. While working on projects, lesson plans, or research papers, users can copy, store, tag, sort, and filter, sort images, text, link videos, and entire web pages for later use. Everything you in one location easily organized and quickly retrievable by user defined tags.Tags provide an effective way of organizing and retrieving information. As items are collected and pasted into notebooks, users can tag items descriptively, by project name, author, website, essentially any keywords that relate to the resource. Unlike folders, which are organized typically in a hierarchical manner, tags are multi-dimensional and canned be linked to multiple notebooks and multiple projects with ease and without searching through layers of folders.

The combination of resources, organization, and accessibility make Evernote.com a very powerful tool for the classroom, the home, and the business place.