Evernote wants to be a database for every bit of knowledge in your life. It takes all of the digital data you collect throughout your day, both the important and the inconsequential, and stores them in a centrally-located library that’s accessible in an instant whenever you need it.
The software, which runs on multiple platforms and exists as a web service, collects whatever you throw at it — photos, web clippings, hand-written notes — and indexes everything for you. The result is that your life instantly becomes annotated and searchable. You can tag items and add comments to remind yourself why you saved something. Evernote can even search text and handwriting within photos, thanks to some awesome text recognition capabilities.
We reviewed Evernote at the beginning of last year. But since then, Evernote has moved beyond the Windows platform to include a recently launched Mac version, as well as web-based access and a variety of options for mobile devices.
In a telephone interview, Evernote CEO Phil Libin tells Wired.com that the goal is to move Evernote “away from a single platform. to an ubiquitous service you can access everywhere.”
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