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I spend a good portion of each day researching various topics and products on the internet for both TekPicks articles and my real life job. One of the best tools I have found for aiding me in these endeavors was the now defunct Google Notebook. No bells and or whistles, it was just a simple way to help me organize and tag URL links for later reference. The nifty Firefox plug in made life easy. The problem is or rather was, Google decided to stop development on Notebook several months back, meaning that with the next major release of Firefox (i.e. 3.5 a few weeks ago) the product would be dead. The good news, Evernote is everything Google Notebook was and more.

There are 4 ways to access the application: web, mobile device, Firefox plug in or the desktop app. All the same basic features I loved in Notebook are still there, but pumped up. You can create multiple notebooks and synchronize them across all the platforms. The filter and tag functionality has been expanded making searching for a particular note quick and painless. You can also save searches and even tag and upload photos from your mobile phone. The best part for me was the ability to directly import all of my existing Google Notebooks in just a few minutes.

Evernote comes in both a free and premium additions so start with the freebie and only upgrade if you need to upload 40 MB or more per month.

Link: Evernote