I promise you that I will start blogging on the software that I think will be useful for those who owns a netbook. My assumption is most of you, netbook owner, use it as your secondary device and it means you have to deal with multiple computers scenario. Keeping stuff accessible from multiple computers is always a challenging task. For that reason, my blog will focus on those softwares that helps you coupe with this what I call “multiple-computers” syndrome 
If you like me, one of the thing that I do a lot on my netbook (beside using my Internet browser) is taking note. There are quite a few note-taking software out there, from full-fledge Microsoft One Note, using Google Doc, or bare simple notepad! One of the software that I would like to highlight today is one called “Evernote”.
I know this company for a while now. I used to use their software when they were pre-installed on some of the sub-notebook such as Flybook, etc. It was a very good alternative to Microsoft One Note at that time (much cheaper in price but good functionalities).
Today, the software has evolved very nicely from a simple dekstop note-taking software to an all-in-one note-taking, web-clipping, multi devices, multi platform application. All the information captured on their application (they have both the offline and the online version) are automatically synced to their online server. This allows all your computers that you have this software installed, have all your notes and information ready everytime. To me, this is a big function that unfortunately Microsoft One Note does not currently offer. To allow me able to search my notes anywhere I am (regardless which PC I use) is very important. This allows me to bring my netbook to a meeting, write all my note in Evernote and back to my desk having all those note ready on my PC for me to further editing for my meeting minute report.
Moreover, they also have the Windows Mobile and iPhone version of the software that allows me to access my note on my iPhone when I am away from any of my computer. And vice versa, I can use my iPhone to capture notes, pictures into my Evernote and have those information available to all my computers.
Here are some screenshots of the application.
It is free for basic usage (40MB of note per month). If you are heavy note taker, you can purchase the premium option which increase your monthly allowance to 500MB per month.
One recommendation when you are using these “auto-sync” applications: always periodically backup all your notes (you can export all notes from Evernote software) just in case something wrong happen during synchronization (so far I never experience any problem with it, but just want to be on the safe side).
As I have mentioned on my previous post that I end up using Apple iPod Touch instead. I did spend the $9.95 to upgrade the OS to version 3.0 because I do want all the new functionalities that comes with it (copy and paste, and landscape mode on most of the applications).
