Plus, you can clip text and graphics from Web sites or e-mails (there's a clipper tool that makes it easy). The app is still a great tool for recording text notes, either typed or written (on a tablet PC). (The product can't yet use RSS feeds as input, but this may be added.) In other words, there are now more ways to dump your notes into the system, and more places from which you can get them out. You can also dump data into it from e-mail. The new Evernote, version 3, is a free suite of tools that let you access one synchronized database of notes from a desktop (PC or Mac), the Evernote Web site, directly off a USB stick, or from a mobile device. The Web version of Evernote syncs up with the desktop apps for free.

There was also a Web service, but using it cost extra. The previous version of Evernote (which I used for about two years, before switching to OneNote), was very good at recording a 'river of notes.' Whatever you typed into the Evernote desktop app you could then easily find again.

'I'm happy with the lazy slob market,' he said. They just want to jam information into a bin and be able to find it later. Libin was giving me the big picture: Evernote is 'an extension of memory.' It's an 'external brain.' But, he says, his company realizes that most people don't want to tag, categorize, annotate, or otherwise file their notes. I was talking to Phil Libin, the new CEO of Evernote, and he was selling me on the new Web-based version of the note-taking app his company makes.

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