

Mac users are no strangers to the power of saved searches and smart folders, and these are especially handy in Evernote, as they sync to the Web interface. They can also be organized with a "Saved Search" (Evernote's version of a Smart Folder) based on either a query or a tag. Tasks can be seen online once notebooks are synced, but they cannot be checked off from a browser.

A decent set of rich text editing tools are available for text notes (font selection, bold/italic/underline, text justification, etc.), and to-do checkboxes can be created for basic task management. This can make notes a bit easier to browse through and recognize at a glance, especially if you're organizing a lot of images. As a very welcome touch, notes can be viewed in either a list form (such as Mail, Journler, etc.) or as thumbnails. The new private beta Mac client is, generally speaking, kept in feature-parity with its Windows counterpart.Įvernote's desktop client allows users to organize text notes, pictures, and clippings from other applications into "notebooks," which basically act similarly to folders or albums in most other applications. At its core, Evernote is both a desktop client and a web service, with a Windows client that's been around for about two years. Let's start with an overview of the existing features that make Evernote such a compelling product.
