What happens if you lose your notebook? [BT broadband office]

What happens if you lose your notebook?

Posted 10 March 2008 at 1:53PM by Ian Betteridge in IT systems and support

You walk into a meeting room for an important meeting, look in your briefcase, and realise that there's something missing: your notebook. It doesn't matter whether that notebook is made of paper, or is a handheld - you've now no way of getting to all your notes.

If it's a handheld, you might be in luck and have a synchronised backup on a nearby desktop PC. But otherwise, you're now going to spend the next few minutes frantically trying to put things together in your head, before anyone realises that you're winging it.

But what if you could get to your notes anywhere - from a laptop, from a handheld, or from a smart mobile phone? In fact, services like this already exist - in the form of online note taking applications.

There are several applications like this which already exist, such as Google Notebook and Zoho Notebook. But one which is worth keeping an eye on is Evernote, which is currently going through a testing phase. Evernote already has a PC-based application, which lets you take notes quickly and easily on any Windows PC. But in the pipeline is an online version, which will let you see your notes from any Web browser, and a Mac application too.

What's particularly interesting about Evernote is that it will let you scan in documents, as well as creating simple text notes. Best of all, it includes text recognition - so you can search the text within anything you scan in.

For anyone wanting to have access to all their notes from anywhere there's an internet connection, this looks like something well worth keeping an eye on.

Tags: bt, bt broadbandoffice, evernote, google notebook, laptop, zoho notebook

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Comments

1. At March 10, 2008 2:53 PM, Tim Watt wrote:

There's plenty of similar Mac applications, that sync online.

I have Barbones' Yojimbo. There are others includes Circus Pony's Notebook....

Tim

ps I find it really annoying that you only include one line summaries in your RSS feed! Can you just get to the point? I was going to write something constructive here, but all I can do is repeat that this is pointlessly annoying!!!

pps Oh, I see my url is removed also...

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2. At March 10, 2008 4:42 PM, Carl wrote:

This is really handy.

I used to save draft messages on my email account to access some info remotely which I could then pick up/access from any other PC.

Thank you

3. At March 11, 2008 12:46 PM, Ian Betteridge wrote:

Thanks for the tips, Tim! I actually use Yojimbo at home for collating PDFs - but as our IT guys won't let me install it at work (boo!) I thought I'd concentrate on note takers you can use from any machine with a web browser.

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