Evernote: I've forgotten what it does, so I need it to help me remember :-)

Oh I do love a witty title. Evernote is a new application that lets you record and index ‘stuff’, so you can find it later. Not just text, but web pages and even images. And images means photographs or webcam captures. But the killer bit number one is that it examines (scans) the image for text and adds that as a searchable keyword. And killer bit number two is that you can do this from your PC/Mac and/or your mobile phone and have the whole lot synced up.

An example:

You are out having lunch with some friends. They order the wine and you find it wonderful. Rather than remember Penfolds Bin 138 Old Vine Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre 2004, you simply take a photo of its label with your mobile phone. You add it to Evernote on the phone and it’s uploaded to your Evernote web storage area. The image is automaticallly scanned for text and so it adds the keywords Grenache, Shiraz, Penfolds etc.

Later that day you go home and use your PC or Mac to access your Evernote stuff and search for Penfolds. And there’s the wine info, including the text and picture. You can then quickly search the web for who sells it nearby. Once you find the web page of a good wine seller, you can copy their details – including maps/images – into Evernote…and it’s pushed back out to your phone. So your phone now has the information on the wine and who sells it.

More at their web site. Article found via Lifehacker.