Given Evernote’s all-around quality, I was puzzled by its failure to include a user-friendly alerts system. Heavy users of Evernote might want to consider upgrading to the service’s paid version ($5 a month, or $45 annually), which offers more storage. The app’s description suggests that if you take a picture of text, that text will be searchable, but this feature did not work for me. You can label your notes and sort them by subject matter or date, among other things, and you can search them by keyword. That synchronization is a trick Apple’s iCloud service can also perform, but on Evernote you can quickly get access to a wider range of your stuff. Likewise, if you enter a note on the Web version of the service, it appears in the app or on Evernote’s free desktop version. You create notes in the form of text, audio clips or photos, and as soon as they’re entered into the app, you can retrieve them from any other Web-connected device.

Here, Android users actually have an advantage over Apple users, but I’ll get to that.Įvernote holds all your digital ephemera and helps you with the filing. The text immediately appears in Notes, and if I want to export it later, I can e-mail it from within the app.įor a more comprehensive note-taking and organizing system, I’ve found nothing better than Evernote. I’m a longtime user of the Notes app, but instead of tapping out a missive, I’m now getting accustomed to saying “write a note to myself” and then dictating the text. Siri also helps with less time-sensitive notes. I told Siri to remind me to be at home when my son got off the bus, and it set up an alert that reached my mobile devices and appeared on my desktop version of Apple’s iCloud service. Siri didn’t render the address I spoke with perfect accuracy, but when I tapped the screen I was able to edit the e-mail draft before sending. I opened Siri and told it to send me an e-mail with my friend’s address in the subject line. Moments after a conversation in which a friend told me his e-mail address, I knew I’d eventually forget it. If you’ve written off Siri as a cocktail party prop, as I initially did, give it another shot. As for the other mobile software on this list, they’re headed by the new girl on the block, Siri, and she’s available only to those who bought her shiny new chariot, Apple’s iPhone 4S.

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