Do You Understand the Words that are Coming out of My Mouth?
If there were ever a place to capture every note imaginable, that place would be Evernote.com. Truly, a remarkable confluence of sleekness and functionality. Surprisingly, I set up an evernote account six months ago and quickly abandoned the site because my greatest need to capture information was when I was away from my desktop.
The iphone changed that, and I believe Evernote “the app” saved Evernote “the site”. Why write or text a note when you can quickly snap a photo? I spend my day writing notes to myself on a giant dry erase board. When I fill the board, I take a photo and store it away for future use.
If I happened to text a note or import text from a website to one of my Evernote notebooks, I can easily recall any word in the note or text using the snazzy search engine; Evernote will pin point the note and highlight the word or words I was searching for. Definitely nice.
But. Here is how you change a $1,000,000 site into a $10,000,000 million dollar site.
What I need from Evernote is the ability to search for specific words or phrases in voice notes. For example, I’m driving down the Airport Freeway, and I have a brilliant idea. I use my hands free headset and upload a voice note to myself. Three months later, I want to recall a certain section of that note. I remember saying “homeless man hustle,” and so I enter the phrase in the Evernote search engine. Evernote, in turn, pulls up the voice note and fast-forwards to that section of my note.
I love voice notes, and this ability would allow me to freely upload voice notes without precariously wasting minutes of my life rummaging through old voice notes looking for the “good stuff.” I also don’t want to be concerned with overextending my welcome and recording lengthy, verbose notes; I wouldn’t have to worry about that if I knew I had the ability to quickly find any and everything mentioned.
Evernote. Make it happen. Pronto. And watch the cheddi fall from the sky.
