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What is Evernote?

Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including OS X, iOS, Chrome OS, Android, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and webOS) and also offers online synchronisation and backup services.

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Good for taking notes and organizing your thoughts!

Kelsi NuttleView profile
Accounting Project Manager in Finance and Accounting at Southern Veterinary Partners (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To take notes and organize thoughts. I use it for projects and ensuring that I keep the most up to date information available. It is a great sourcing tool between teammates. It is also a great organization tool for having information that needs to be relayed quickly.

Pros

  • Organize notes
  • Take Notes
  • Organize folders
  • Keep subtasks
  • task lists
  • templates

Cons

  • Sharing information
  • Ipad capabilities
  • Mobile information

Most Important Features

  • Notetaking
  • Shareability
  • Organization
  • Ease of use

Return on Investment

  • Makes organization easier
  • Allows for retention of information
  • Can share information easily

Alternatives Considered

Trello, OneNote, Dropbox Paper, Google Sheets and Noteable

Other Software Used

Trello, OneNote, Google Sheets

Evernotes, best collaborative Note Taker for Small Teams.

Incentivized
Godfrey ChimbalangaView profile
Technical Quality Manager in Quality Assurance at JTI (Japan Tobacco International) (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Evernote is the most effective tool for creative thinking in our company. Our initial goal is to examine potential ideas before anybody starts working on the project. People may readily submit their thoughts and trade them with one another without fear of losing their distinctive content. Evernote's design concepts encourage users to arrange their material into lists and to write in handwritten form. One benefit of these design concepts is the possibility to combine notes with other programs such as Microsoft Teams or email sharing.

Pros

  • Beautiful notes may be created with the help of an intuitive user interface that offers a wide range of color schemes, typefaces, and layouts.
  • Your notes are always at your fingertips, no matter where you are.
  • Even scanned papers may be quickly and accurately found using the powerful note-searching capabilities of the app.
  • Keeping track of meetings makes it possible to work in groups and collaborate.

Cons

  • Premium plan is expensive.

Most Important Features

  • Document Scanning.
  • Digital handwriting.
  • Web Clipper.

Return on Investment

  • Not quantifiable.

"Easy Note-Taking With Evernote For Our Team"

Incentivized
Afia TamannaView profile
Information Technology Business Consultant in Professional Services at Alfa NET+ (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Adding notebooks, tags, and shortcuts allows users to find information quickly and easily.
  • An easy-to-use interface with various colors, fonts, and formats allows users to create beautiful notes.
  • Enable group work and collaboration by keeping track of meetings.

Cons

  • Aesthetics of the interface and data encryption/security are dated.
  • Group chat and email management could be more accessible, but not bad.
  • Managing signed-in devices and document versioning/group editing can be tricky.

Most Important Features

  • Using a mobile app allows for easy access and convenience. It's cloud-based, so it syncs.
  • For web page capture, a web clipper function that is easy to use is essential.
  • When it comes to finding notes, the user interface and search functionality help.
  • Always have a note-taking device in your pocket with any mobile device and no monthly fees.

Return on Investment

  • PDF annotation was a need most often met through individual tools, so it was a welcomed feature, and Web clipper makes life easy as now you can annotate and capture web pages in your notes.
  • Search functionality made life very easy as searching anything in the notes is super easy and reliable, and Evernote could do much more than that one task.
  • Easy template usage allows for quick project setup. The number of templates or features can be overwhelming for some team members and too rigid for some regular uses.

Alternatives Considered

Google Keep, OneNote and Notion

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, Zendesk Support Suite, Drupal, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Dynamics AX)

Evernote makes taking notes seamless and simple

Incentivized
Bradley CarpenterView profile
Business Owner in Information Technology at SecureFix (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Syncing information is seamless.
  • The search of all notes, even scanned documents, is extremely fast and accurate.
  • Simplicity of use while not being a simple program.

Cons

  • Keep making changes to the layout and startup screen which is annoying.
  • Having scanning as a part of the app and not a separate download.
  • Tags seem to be cumbersome.

Most Important Features

  • Searchability
  • Ease of note taking
  • Stability

Return on Investment

  • Created a single source of information for searching
  • Risk of losing information is much less
  • Confidence in tracking of customer information

Alternatives Considered

OneNote

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Dynamics AX), Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

Amazing Tech Product across your devices

Incentivized
Tahseen FatimaView profile
Senior Web Designer in Information Technology at PastelArray (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Extremely Simple to Use
  • User Interface
  • Very Cost Effective
  • Reliability
  • Browser Extensions

Cons

  • Auto save feature
  • Rare lagging
  • More features

Most Important Features

  • Availability
  • Simplicity
  • User Interface

Return on Investment

  • Employee Experience
  • Return on Investment
  • Engagement
  • Collaboration

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