Culture

Evernote is not just an app – it’s so much more than that. Evernote, once you start to use it, becomes an extension of your brain. If you’ve ever sat in the middle of a pile of paper, wailing because you can’t find the notes you need, you could probably benefit from using it. There’s a reason its icon is an elephant – elephants never forget, and neither does Evernote.

Evernote is like a digital to-do list/ notebook/ scrapbook that you can synchronise and access across all your devices. Forget your folder full of Word documents and scattered handout sheets – you can write your lecture notes and save them in Evernote. Even better, you can tag them, add a voice recording and a picture of the whiteboard. If you prefer to write your notes by hand, take a photo of them and save it to Evernote in case they get wet and/or your parrot eats them. When you need to find your notes later, you can search using the powerful search function – it’s so good that it will even recognise text within an image. It’s basically witchcraft.

It gets better, though – you can “clip” pages from the web and save them to Evernote, which is great if you need a bunch of temporary bookmarks for an assignment. Or, if you want to save recipes from the web with pictures and videos, and have them all in one place. Your notes will synchronise across your devices, assuming you install the necessary app, so you can save a journal article on your laptop and read it later on your phone.

Download it. Use it. Be more organised. Conquer the world.